Mourinho is in the CRAPPER After Smack Up By West Ham

Dark.

I think, after a long hard search through the Oxford dictionary, that is the perfect word to describe the situation that Jose Jeremiah Mourinho now finds himself in. These are uncharted waters, new ground, a whole realm that Mourinho honestly never believed he would ever be in throughout his entire career. The reality is that he's in it, and the other reality is his job and reputation are both on the line in which is going to be a monumental weekend for Jose.







Seeing Chelsea play and their UNPERFORMANCES, when I saw that fixture against West Ham away from home, I did expect a loss. I didn't come out and say it, but privately, a team playing as badly as Chelsea and a team playing as well as West Ham, Chelsea getting taken out was going to be a very likely outcome. When the match rolled around, it was even worse. A man sent off, seven bookings, Mourinho and his staff member getting sent to the stands; a total shambles that illustrated the dark cloud that has hovered over Chelsea since the pre-season.


I can spend this entire article talking about all the problems that Chelsea have, but that's what every other journalist and writer has done. So being the wolf that I like to believe I am, I'm going to try and take a different slant on this Chelsea situation. Rather than dwelling on the problems, perhaps it would be more refreshing for you the reader if I tried to bring forth some solutions. So...

When you have a team who have won trophies comfortably, and have gone on amazing winning runs, you are in a much better place than a team who haven't. For example, if Scunthorpe made it into the Premiership and were in the relegation zone and were losing games as easy as eating candy, it would be rather hard to try to get them into a winning mentality. But for Chelsea, the players that Mourinho has around him are the same ones that easily won the Premeirship last season. They KNOW how to win in this league, so therefore it's about figuring out how to get back into that frame of mind that they had before. You don't just lose your footballing touch out of the blue, and it's not as if they have aged ten years in twelve months. The problem is just how to unlock that because these Chelsea players are playing as if they never won that Premier League.


The buck usually stops with the manager and it's all too often that happens. Of course, the manager is the one on the training field who is tasked with improving players. He has to figure out these problems and for how much Mourinho is being paid, Abramovich EXPECTS that he gets the players playing at optimum level. But, when are we going to put some of this blame on the players? Why, whenever there is a crisis like this, these overpaid prima-donnas who couldn't step to the greats who earned PEANUTS compared to them, don't they also get the spotlight put on them?


These are apparently some of the best players in the world. So surely, they should be able to step their game up and be able to produce pieces of individual magic to turn the game. Apart from Payet, no other player on that West Ham team is as good as those on Chelsea's, if we go based of on just pure technical ability rather than actual form. So how then was nobody on Chelsea's team able to get past two players and thread through  a great pass, or rifle in a shot that produced some damage? Aren't these what top players are able to do despite whatever tactical hindrances they may be playing under?


If I was Mourinho right now, in this situation; with the huge match on Saturday now coming up, I would have
a massive get together. I'd take in every single member of the Chelsea squad and just put it to them straight. Those that want to play for Chelsea, who are ready to spill blood on the pitch on Saturday should step forward. Those that aren't prepared to give their all and more, should remain where they are. Then, when picking the team, I will be looking at that training session and identifying those that have the DESIRE. Those that want to WIN. Right now, it's no longer about reputation, or awards you received last season, it's about 2015 and what you can do today and not yesterday. So when Saturday rolls out, every single member of that Chelsea team will be a player who is ready to die on that pitch. What you then have is a team ready to go that extra yard and treats the game more like a World Cup final rather than a league game in late October.

Or it could all end horribly. It's pretty much the same Chelsea team that played against West Ham, and they will go and play badly, with individual mistakes and players moving around like planks of wood and Liverpool soundly beating them. Then before Abramovich can drop the hammer, Mourinho will hand in his resignation and thus would spend the great fall of one of the Premier League's greatest ever managers and characters. That is a version of this tale that I don't want to see happen, but life finds a way of bringing out that yang in all of us.


Let's hope for the former...


HH