Jose Mourinho feeling the Blues

Let’s not kid ourselves here, this guy has had quite the season hasn’t he? 

Or maybe half season seeing as he is no longer present in the Premier League and because of that the British media will miss their darling. As for premier league fans, I can imagine that the majority of them will have wanted the ‘Special One’ to stay as it looks as though most teams had no problems beating them. Not to forget that these ‘champions’ are near relegation right now, such a dramatic fall for the blues compared to the runaway that they had last season.

At the time when I first heard about Mourinho’s sacking, I thought this was everything he deserved. Especially with that entire jibe at Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger, calling him a specialist in failure (arsenal fans are not touchy or anything). Although the more I’ve thought about it, I do feel that Chelsea are worst off getting rid of the fans favourite and before you all jump on me, I have reasons as to why they will be. First things first, this was the chance for Roman and his gang to show us that they were willing to stick with their manager through good and bad (something they’re not very good at). What better season to prove that than this one? In addition to that I was intrigued to see how Mourinho over the whole course of the season trying his ways to overcome this adversity, his first real battle of his career. This is also Chelsea’s first real battle since they established themselves in 2003 (I kid, relax), so it was interesting to see how true the loyalty the blues board and their guardian angel was going to be. Turns out it was all too good to be true. 

Okay second reason, lets talk about the fans. Now I know they can be a difficult bunch sometimes (translation: all the time) but they are having it rough with this managerial merry go round. Think about it for a second, they’re very annoying on social media giving it the big talk on social media, we don’t like that do we? Then there’s their angel, their godfather, who also gives the big talk in press conferences. Also very annoying isn’t it? There’s your match made in heaven. Not only that, the guy seems to connect with Chelsea fans; something that other managers have struggled to do in the same way that Mourinho has done. Look at Di Matteo, normally when you win the Champions League at a club you’d have some sort of Demi-God status till the end of days. Yet that wasn’t the case; when he was sacked, Chelsea fans were pretty mute about it. Poor lad.

Jose Mourinho knows how it feels to be unwanted at the top, something the blues fans seem to understand very well; it can be explained as to why the Inter Milan fans adore Jose Mourinho and vie versa (not exactly the most popular team in Italy; same could be said about Juventus too). The Chelsea fans and Mourinho all spoke the same language too and whatever that was it was definitely something that would hurt our ears most likely. One thing I must say, Mourinho seems to understand what it means to be a Chelsea man and by that everyone wants to see Chelsea fail; he feels the pain the same way the fans do. Perhaps also feels joy the same way they do. Hence why you didn’t hear unrest from Chelsea fans eh?

This doesn’t help Roman Abramovich’s reputation when it comes to pulling the trigger every time something goes wrong. It doesn’t bode well for him if he wants to employ the top managers and they look at how stable the managerial job is over in West London. Not very pretty is it?

Now I’m not going to say that Chelsea are in the wrong here for their downfall, no ways. Jose Mourinho has to take his fair share of the blame. Doing very un-Mourinho things like blaming his players’ publicly- being over argumentative with himself and the FA- something that always badly. Very badly. The Eva Carneiro incident needs no introduction nor does the 7-minute speech that Mourinho graced football fans worldwide with, following their defeat to Southamton. Where do the champions go from here? Well only time will tell?

Many thanks,

@BethelMoyo @football_dugout