Where Does Mourinho Go from Here?

Things aren't bad at Chelsea. They're not even disastrous. It's gotten to the stage now where frankly, it's just ridiculous. You could laugh, but then when you see the league table, you'd have to postpone such humor for a later time.

I am still expecting to hear of Mourinho's sacking, but radio silence has been maintained. At the moment, he's Chelsea manager with a team that is teetering over the relegation zone. So the real question is, after another resounding and convincing loss at home, where the hell does Mourinho and his team go from here?






The short answer is I have no idea. What I have witnessed with Chelsea is something that I have never ever seen before occur to a club of this stature. In all my years of watching football, I have never seen a team win a league title so convincingly one season, and start to fight relegation and look horrible the following one. So when you are dealing with a situation that is unprecedented, it's pretty hard to try and think of any solutions to this unique problem.

Mourinho has tried everything. Dropped players, changed players around, altered formation; apart from threatening the lives of their families, he's done all he can as a manager. So I'm really not sure what else he can do. For some reason, the players are just not responding to him, and there is a serious lack of chemistry on the pitch. Of course, you have guys like Willian and Ramires who are putting in a good shift, but these are not the stars of the team that were the reason for Chelsea's success last season. So them playing well won't solve the problem.

I am afraid there is one solution. And it doesn't actually involve Mourinho doing anything to the team. The only chance for Chelsea to now come out of this pot of hot soup that they find themselves in, is for Mourinho to stand down as manager and for someone else to come in with completely new and fresh ideas to perhaps try and renergize the team. That is the only solution I see in all of this. Nothing else will work, because there is just a large gulf I see that exists between Mourinho and his players. How this gulf came about, I really do not know, but it's there. And if we are trying to see the bigger picture and do what is best for the club known as Chelsea and I am the owner or chairman, I have to roll that dice and just bring someone new.


There is no certainty. Someone being brought in that is new will not automatically guarantee that Chelsea will now immediately go back to winning ways. It's always dangerous to sack a manager once the season has already started and is approaching the midway stage. It's a lot harder for a new man to come in and get his players to play his way, which takes time. But desperate times call for desperate measures, and it's a move that I am afraid and sad to say has to now be made.


HH