However, it has been a season to forget for Chelsea thus far, with the champions in 15th place after losing six of their 11 league matches, while a penalty shootout defeat to Stoke City ended their defence of the League Cup.
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Should Mourinho be sacked, former Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti and the club’s former midfielder Claude Makelele have been lined up as a possible management team, the Daily Mail reports.
“I don’t think I’m being over-critical, I know the boys, but a few people are leaders and vocal in the dressing room”.
Chelsea’s all-time top scorer Frank Lampard, who played under Mourinho, said the club should be looking for stability.
Asked if they were football-related, he said: “Everything is football-related, right?” And what do you need to do differently to be a better manager?
After losing a goal so early in the match Liverpool came into the game impressively and dominated the game for long periods before scoring the three goals that sealed the win. Every day. This is new for me. “If I was a bad one it would come before (now)”, Mourinho said.
“I resisted well to the nature of my job, to the nature of football – 11 years waiting for this”.
“He’s under pressure because of the way we’re performing”, the defender said”. “Every manager I’ve worked with has a different strategy, but the most important thing is the result and he is the victor”.
The Blues boss added: “For my players I do everything. I always did and I am not going to change”. “I don’t want to blame social or political problems”.
Out-of-sorts striker Radamel Falcao will miss Chelsea’s Champions League clash with Dynamo Kiev after picking up an injury in training.
Mourinho will serve a one-match stadium ban at Stoke this weekend unless an appeal is submitted against the sanction imposed on Monday following his half-time dismissal at West Ham on 24 October.
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This comes less than a month after he was fined £50,000 for his comments after saying that referee Bobby Madley was too “afraid” to give decisions in his side’s favour in a 3-1 home loss against Southampton.
