Jose Jeremiah Mourinho and Chelsea Football Club are OFFICIALLY in Trouble

This is serious. Now, it's time to use all your weight to push down on the panic button until it ends up on the other side of the planet. Chelsea are in very serious trouble and are in a situation that they have not been in ever under Mourinho. This is beyond just waiting for the tide to turn...something is very seriously wrong at Chelsea, and they don't look anything at all like defending champions. To try and find some answers as to why this is so, unfortunately, the buck really has to stop with Jose.


Coming into this game, the point of greatest concern that needed fixing was the defense. This has been the hallmark of every team that Mourinho has managed. The criticisms that he's received has always been about his team going forward, but never about his defensive wizardry. It was he who built the great wall of Milan with Inter, one of the most impenetrable defenses ever seen. This Chelsea team have already conceded eleven goals, and look like strangers amongst one another at the back. It's shocking just how bad defensively they look and they don't resemble a team that is coached by Mourinho.







It's hard to just pin the blame on one player because everyone has to take account. But if John Terry is going to play, being the most experienced and the captain of the team, he has to be barking orders and be the one making sure that everyone is positioned properly. The reason why Chelsea have been so good at the back has been because of the leadership Terry has shown. You always need that commander who makes sure the defensive line is straight and all four at the back work as a unit. That has not happened so far, and Terry being the defensive General has to take responsibility. I've said Terry is done, and Ivanovic just needs a few games out as he's been one of the worst for Chelsea. Both players played, and both were at fault for two of the goals scored.

The buck stops with Jose.


Then we have the Eden Hazard problem. We are five games into the season and he still has not woken up from his deep sleep. Totally ineffective, not involved at all in the game, not taking players on, and not getting the team going in the attacking areas as he normally does. The longer that this persists, the more Chelsea will struggle as a whole. On the other hand, the man brought in to assist him has easily been Chelsea's best player. Pedro has already proven to me that he wasn't just an afterthought at Barcelona. He has pretty much been playing like Chelsea's Hazard of last season for Chelsea. The only difference is Pedro is not the kind of player you can pin your season's hopes on, whereas Hazard is and has proven so before.

The spotlight has to fall on the man who creates the blueprint and gives the instructions to his players. Jose Mourinho is just not getting the ideas across to his players. There is clearly a disconnect between the training pitch and the match pitch. Chelsea are normally the most mentally prepared team in the Premiership. Whenever they have played badly or not been in the game, their mental strength has been what has pulled them through to get the job done. The team I saw today are void of that. There isn't that cold-blooded streak about them, and that military style organisation. Without that fundamental philosophy and key players not showing up at all, Chelsea are in real deep trouble.







Diego Costa. He has not been good at all. I can guarantee you that if he was right in the head (which he never really is) and physically on his game, Chelsea would have won more matches this season. He's actually had situations that could have been turned into goals if he had the sharpness that made him one of most in-demand strikers. It just isn't there with him; everything is too slow and labored which makes defenders tackle him with much more ease than they did before. So now, he's just turned into the very moody, drunk uncle when things don't go his way, confronting players and referees.


How Mourinho doesn't see that Costa needs to be benched for an alternative is worrying. Jose is normally the first manager you would think of to make whatever changes are necessary without caring about friendship or loyalty. If fair was fair, as bad as Falcao has been for some time, he should have been given at least the whole of the second half over Costa.


I have no idea what the future holds for this new Chelsea that I don't recognize. What they need more than just a win is a great performance, a classic performance. Not once this season have they won convincingly in a commanding fashion. Until that happens, Chelsea will run into more problems and other teams in the Premier League will already be gaining a confidence in playing them and taking them to the cleaners just like Everton did. There is something very wrong at Chelsea and Mourinho and the players have to do some serious soul-searching in order for them to get back on track.



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