Thursday, 17 December 2015

Chelsea sack Jose Mourinho after calamitous league run

Jose Mourinho was sacked as manager of premier League champions Chelsea on Thursday after a calamitous run of outcomes left the London membership one point above the relegation region.

“Chelsea football club and Jose Mourinho have nowadays parted corporation by mutual consent,” the membership said on their professional Twitter account.

The 52-year-vintage Portuguese back to Stamford Bridge for a 2nd stint in fee in 2013 and final season led them to the title and a League Cup triumph.

Chelsea had been beaten 2-1 by marvel leaders Leicester town on Monday, their 9th defeat in sixteen league fits.

In advance of this weekend’s domestic recreation with Sunderland, they have managed only 15 factors at some stage in their worst start to a season seeing that being relegated in 1978-seventy nine.

Media hypothesis had been mounting approximately Mourinho’s function and it reached a crescendo after Monday’s defeat while he accused some of the gamers of “betraying his work”.

Mourinho gained lower back-to-back titles for Chelsea at some stage in his first spell in price from 2004-07 earlier than falling out of favour with the membership’s Russian owner Roman Abramovich . He was welcomed lower back as a returning hero in 2013 after spells at Inter Milan and actual Madrid and soon added a 3rd league title.

However, this season they've already misplaced the equal quantity of league suits as they did inside the ultimate  campaigns combined, and their hopes of a top-4 finish appearance bleak.

Few could have envisaged their incredible slump and despite the fact that the fanatics have remained dependable to him, the defeat at Leicester proved to be his final in shape in charge.

The season has observed a comparable pattern to Mourinho’s previous dismissal eight years in the past, even though he became given a little longer to opposite their fortunes this time.

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