PREMIER LEAGUE: Sorry Jose, it's all over
It is no longer a question of if Jose Mourinho leaves the fallen Premier League champions, but when. This is a manager who doesn't know how to win a relegation scrap but is suddenly facing one after Saturday's 3-1 loss to Liverpool, writes resident Chelsea expert Dan Levene.
It's all over for Jose Mourinho at
Chelsea, bar the shouting.
The extraordinary scenes that followed Saturday's 3-1 defeat to Liverpool – the refusal to grant TV interviewers with any answer other than 'I have nothing to say', the dysfunctional press conference where he insisted he wanted to listen not talk, and the 15-minute on-pitch coaching team debrief – seem to suggest he knows it.
Followed-up on Sunday by BBC journalist Garry Richardson's impeccably sourced assertion that he knows of a Chelsea first team player who would 'rather lose than win for Mourinho', this appears to be the dying embers of a short-lived empire at Chelsea.
I hear he could have gone on Sunday – but, like previous sackings, Chelsea are choosing their moment. They want an opportunity that minimises the damage caused to the club. That means balancing the risk that a Mourinho side increasingly riven with divisions continues to lose games, with a moment to give his replacement the longest possible run-up at a debut match.
Sense says, discounting a complete disaster against Dynamo Kiev on Wednesday, that the axe will fall after Stoke on Saturday evening.
FUCK,,THIS IS GETTING SO BORING,,JUST SHUT HIM UP,,SHIP HIM OUT,AND WE FORGET ALL ABOUT HIM ONCE AND ALL :D