BY NAIJALOADED BOARD
It was coming wasn’t it?
The reigning English champions suddenly turned into a different outfit from last season, more abhorrent, under the same manager, the ‘Special One’ as he is commonly referred to.
The writings on the wall of a catastrophic season imminent were already in full glare in June ahead of the new season in August.
First, Mourinho, stupendously, sanctioned the sale of top stopper Petr Cech to London rivals Arsenal for £10m. The Czech Republic international is currently having a beasty season with the gunners and it is no surprise his current team are serious title contenders.
Chelsea then reported to Pre-season training on July 16, a week later than their other rivals; played Barcelona four days before a mouth-watering clash with Arsenal in the Community Shield, in which Mourinho was hoping to extend his unbeaten run over Arsenal’s boss Arsene Wenger.
Chelsea were subsequently beaten at Wembley.
Had Mourinho observed his team with more scrutiny, he would have sensed a disjointed side mentally fatigued by his own rigorous training methods.
Former England boss Fabio Capello supported this claim.
“Mourinho is a strategist. Mourinho is a great coach, but after a year-and-half, the players are burned. His mean are mentally no longer able to give what he wants.” He said.
The new season had come too soon and on opening day fixture on August 8th, Chelsea drew at Stamford Bridge to Gary Monk’s Swansea, who has also been sacked.
Unfortunately, the game was marred by a redundant incident.
Jose Mourinho was furious with female club doctor Eva Carneiro for her decision to run onto the pitch to treat Eden Hazard.
It was a baseless criticism and a war Mourinho wasn’t going to win considering Hazard was visibly hurt and the referee on the day instructed the medic team onto the pitch. Carneiro left her post as club doctor after being subsequently demoted, and she is currently entering a legal battle with Mourinho for her dismissal.
Off the pitch Mourinho was under severe criticism from the football community for his handling of Carneior’s case, on the pitch however, it was turning from bad to worse for his team.
The next game saw Chelsea beaten 3-0 by Manchester City much to a visibly stunned Mourinho in the away dugout.
Subsequent run of results has seen Chelsea 3 points closer to relegation spot- this time last season, the Blues were sitting comfortably in first position on the Premier League table. Amazing.
His last game as Chelsea boss was the 2-1 defeat to league leaders Leicester City.
Mourinho, 52, took an unprecedented method of criticizing his players after the defeat.
“I feel my work is betrayed,” he began.
“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.”
It was the final observation of a manager who has had enough of the nightmare, Roman Abramovich, the Chelsea owner, only helped to bail him out of it.
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