The reigning Premier League champions have been in dismal form this season and are mired in 16th place following their 2-1 defeat at Leicester City on Monday.
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“But I have to say that what they set out to do when Jose Mourinho came back was to have a long-term plan”. The Portuguese admitted his frustrations at the difference in level between what he sees in training and on amatch day.
Despite Leicester topping the table in mid-December, the 24-year-old has ruled them out of the title race.
Mourinho, in his second spell in charge of Chelsea, was given Abramovich’s public backing in October, but domestic results have not improved since.
“We have these players and it is with these players that we have to go and the players that are not performing well must feel, for sure they must feel, attacked in their pride and their self esteem. They did not come and get me…”
“I am not saying you can’t have a bad season and bad games”.
Mourinho heavily criticized the squad in his post-match interviews, pointing out that the players should be more humble in the face of their opponents.
“But the top four is a realistic ambition for Leicester and they just need to keep going”.
“We are not going to win the league, no. I don’t think we have broad enough shoulders to do it”, he said.
He is clearly exasperated with the way everything has unravelled so spectacularly this season but he said the same players would have to dig themselves out of the hole.
“I have no doubt and I am not afraid of a big challenge”. “I don’t want to wake up”. I want to stay. “But at the moment, we’re in a zone where I feel ashamed”.
Jose Mourinho’s future as Chelsea manager is in suspense over his failure to lift the team out of their alarming slump, according to British press reports on Wednesday.
Is the manager just trying to blame anyone else for his hopes of the team making it to the top 4 being “gone”, or did his stars “betray” him?
“I have to believe he is injured”.
“The manager is still telling us to go for that 40-point target though”.
“And today I’m very happy to have taken it. Everything good started from the moment I left for there”.
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“Nobody can buy them”, he said. “They don’t have the money and they don’t have a price”. I identified four movements where they score nearly all of their goals.
