José Mourinho. The Portuguese returned to the
club in 2013 and won the Premier League title
last season, but having sunk to 16th place in the
table, the Stamford Bridge outfit have dismissed
their manager.
Mourinho’s side have lost nine league games
this season, the worst defence of a Premier
League title ever. The latest loss was to Claudio
Ranieri’s Leicester City, 2-1 at the King Power
Stadium . Afterwards Mourinho took the
unusual step of criticising his players. “ I feel my
work is betrayed ,” he said. “I worked four days
in training for this match. I identified four
movements where Leicester score a lot of their
goals and in two of the four situations I
identified they scored their goals. I went
through it all with the players, you can ask
them.”
After the defeat it had seemed a matter of
when, not if, Chelsea’s owner Roman
Abramovich would act, with the club in real
danger of slipping into the relegation zone over
the crowded festive period.
When asked after the Leicester defeat if he
could hold on to his job, Mourinho said: “The
only thing I can say is that I want to. I have no
doubts and I think you know me well enough,
three years this time, plus three years another
time, that I am not afraid of a big challenge,
and in this moment this is a real big challenge. I
want to stay, I hope Mr Abramovich and the
board want me to stay.”
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