Straight from the bottom of my heart and brain, as a Chelsea fan, I feel we were wrong to sack Jose Mourinho. He is the greatest manager Chelsea have ever had. One bad season and everybody forgets who the man is.
He has won everything but the Champions League with Chelsea and boasts of a 66% win rate in the Premier League, the highest by a manager who has managed 100+ matches. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that without him, Chelsea wouldn't be the champion club that it is. After taking over from Ranieri a decade ago, he brought immediate success by winning the league in his first season in charge, repeating it in his 2nd, winning League Cup and FA cup double in his 3rd and the Community Shield too in between. He had a disagreement with Roman Abramovich and left Chelsea in 2007 after building the team and making it reach its full potential.
He came back in 2013 to build a dynasty at Chelsea. He insisted the squad wasn't ready to win the title yet and we finished without a trophy in his first season in charge. In the summer before his 2nd, he made widespread changes, bring in young legs to the squad. He recalled the on loan Thibaut Courtois in an excellent move for he is among the top 3 goalkeepers in the world. He brought in Cesc Fabregas from Barcelona, Diego Costa and Filipe Luis from Atletico Madrid. He slowly built the team around Eden Hazard and Oscar. He actually made John Terry's legs move and run and built a rock solid defence and provided excellent midfield cover in the form of Nemanja Matic. We romped to the title in style, destroying opponents losing just 2 matches on the way to the title.
He also made a few mistakes in his 2nd spell. He sold our 2 time Player of the Season Juan Mata to Manchester United and preferred Oscar saying he didn't fit in his plans and lacked the stamina. He sold Kevin De Bruyne to Wolfsburg saying he 'cried' a lot when he was subbed. De Bruyne went on to become the Bundesliga Player of the Season and is now with Manchester City eyeing revenge against Chelsea when they meet next. He sold Andre Schurrle and brought in probably the flop of the season Juan Cuadrado.
Unfortunately this season, the squad came back from holiday to be an unfit, not match fit set of players. The fall began when Jose Mourinho screamed at our doctor who went on to treat an injured Eden Hazard when we were drawing the match during the dying moments of the game. Since then, nothing seems to be going right. We lost to Man City 3-0 and lost at home to crystal palace 2-1 in that month.
At one point in the season during September, it looked like we were finally kick starting our campaign. We beat Tel Aviv in the champions league 4-0 and then beat Arsenal 2-0 at home in what was probably our best performance of the season. Everybody played well and we played as a unit and a team. We then beat Walsall 4-1 in the League Cup and it looked like we were finally turning things around. But it was not to be as we then scraped to a 2-2 draw at NewCastle in a horrible performance and things became bad once again.
We again looked like turning things around when we beat Dynamo Kiev and Norwich in successive weeks but it again fell apart. We kept losing matches and are now in 16th place, precariously placed with just a point above the relegation zone. We lost at Leicester City 2-1 in a match which we could've drawn and one which saw Eden Hazard come off injured. We could've drawn but it was not to be with Diego Costa unable to finish in a 1v1 situation after a wonderful Cesc Fabregas pass.
It may look like Roman Abramovich had no choice, but to sack the manager, but I don't see the point in doing so. Like Frank Lampard, our legend said, realistically speaking we aren't going to make the top 4 or get relegated no matter who manages the club. So why not see where Jose Mourinho leads us in the end of the season? We're doing well in the champion's league so why not see if Jose can win if for us? There's still the FA cup which we can win, so why not see if Jose can win it? He is after all, the best of his generation, and if anybody deserves another chance it's him! At some point, he will turn things around. The same thing happened to Jurgen Klopp last season at Dortmund. They were precariously place at Christmas break much like us and managed to finish 7th and came close to winning the DFB Pokal Cup in the final losing to Kevin De Bruynes brilliance. No matter what, fans are with you Jose, in whatever be your next endeavour and we will always be ready to welcome you back to chelsea in the future.
I believe it was right to sack him.
ReplyDeletenot to be a hater,ive always been a chelsea fan and im just saying what is best for the team.look at it now,it is nearly unstoppable.
I strongly disagree. No matter how the manager is , it is up to the players to perform on the pitch. And after a point the tide would've turned even under Jose Mourinho. And he is the best the club has ever had.
ReplyDeleteAnd we're hardly unstoppable. But for a few last minute goals, we'd have lost a lot more. The PSG tie at home will be a real test. Let's see if we can turn the deficit around.
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