Chelsea manger Jose Mourinho has only managed to survive at Stamford Bridge because he led them to the Premiership title last season says former Blues coach Ray Wilkins who is also predicting that the Portuguese manager will be sacked should they fail to beat Porto and advance to the knockout stage of the Champions League.
Wilkins has always been one of Mourinho’s biggest supporters, but with the club looking as though they might not even finish in the top four he feels a loss against Porto will have Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich deciding that enough is enough and cut ties with the 52-year-old manager.
The Chelsea legend made the following comments while being interviewed by beIN Sports: “Any other manager would have gone, there are no two ways about it. Mourinho is only still there, purely and simply, for what he’s done in the past.
“The big thing for Mourinho is Europe, he loves the European competition and Abramovich just adores it, so if they lose against Porto, then he could be on his way.
“They are away at Leicester next week so if something is going to happen, it will happen, I would have thought, after this week. I don’t think it will happen this week.”
Former Liverpool star striker Kevin Keegan also weighed in with why he thought Chelsea were not the same team as last season saying he thinks something happened between Mourinho and Abramovich to do with transfers saying: “Chelsea are struggling to find any kind of form. I felt if ever Chelsea were going to have a chance of getting back into the top four, which I still thought up until this match (Bournemouth) they could, it’s gone now.
“It’s not only gone because there is a gap appearing, it’s gone because they’ve lost their way. Their best players (last season) are almost their worst players and they just seem like a club that’s not able to dominate a game anymore. You watch that team and you can’t see them going on a good run.
“Matic was outstanding last season. This season, he’s not the same player. Ivanovic used to set the standard and now he’s not the same. Hazard is the same. If you take all those things away, you see now what looks a very average team.
“I’ve said it before with their pre-season but Chelsea look a little bit behind the pace and you can’t catch that up very quickly. For Fabregas it looks like the game is too quick for him. You take confidence out of a player, it can have that effect. The coach doesn’t really know how to put this right.
“Mourinho has never been in this situation before. He’s always had success on success. Something happened between him and Roman Abramovich. At the start of the season, we felt he wasn’t happy because he hadn’t got the players in that he wanted and I still feel it’s a little bit of that.”
