[Closed] Mourinho's gone!

Hmmm, dunno - he's quite good at shopping but seems to be a bit of a knob, TBH

Money on Rodgers until the end of season and then Guardiola next year?

Daft if it's a short term appointment they make now.

It was obvious.....but still hilarious! How the mighty fall eh! 😀

I live in Chelseaville and there were a LOT of Chelsea fans who didn't want him back in the first place. He's a great manager.....for a couple of years when he then seems to go out of his way to piss people off. Its happened everywhere he's been.

Seeing as Hazard was in a 'relationship' wiv the doc, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that there was a LOT going on in the background that no one was aware of.

Not a football fan but the way he treated the doctor was nothing short of disgraceful.

I hope they get relegated.

John Terry for player/manager

For Chelsea's sake, hopefully he'll sideline himself for the rest of the season.

John Terry for player/manager

... wonder where the sacked one will go next

I wonder what the odds are for him as next Man Utd manager?

I think Mourinho is massively overrated not least by himself. Not quite the "Special One" now. OP, "best manager in the world" is ridiculous and totally unjustified. He's a defensive coach who likes his team to score on the break. He's been totally found out this year as Chelsea's defence has been dire. That being said Chelsea hired him so to sack him beef Christmas the year after they win the PL is madness.

I think the odds on them being relegated have just gone up significantly

Gaudiola is going to Manchester City, he's due to make an announcement this week.

They probably need someone to inspire them and actually get the players to want to play football for Chelsea. Dunno whether Terry is the man to do that, but he's certainly Chelsea through and through.

how about bayern munich at the end of the season?

I was really interested in seeing how the best club manager in the premiership was going to work his way out of the bottom of the table, a harder task than battling for the title from 2-3rd.
It was probably the hardest test of his abilities he has ever had to face and I'm disappointed he's not there to see that through.
Hopefully Chelsea get a world class replacement not some premiership cast offs like before.

I think Mourinho is massively overrated not least by himself. Not quite the "Special One" now. OP, "best manager in the world" is ridiculous and totally unjustified. He's a defensive coach who likes his team to score on the break. He's been totally found out this year as Chelsea's defence has been dire. That being said Chelsea hired him so to sack him beef Christmas the year after they win the PL is madness.

He's won trophies everywhere he's been. Ok the football isn't much fun but he gets results. In years to come record books remember trophies, not pretty football. When we could have won the league a couple of seasons ago he came to Anfield and taught Rodgers a lesson in getting a result and that was that for our title ambitions.

There seems to be a lot more wrong at Chelski than is going to be solved by getting [i]yet another[/i] new manager in. The same squad that coasted to the premiership last season look like they've never met each other before.

I hope they make Terry player manager. The fans will then hail him as the messiah, while forgetting that he's a nasty poisonous, obnoxious self-serving little scrote, who has no chance of galvanising a squad as a manager. I always get the feeling that John Terry could be half the problem with whats going on at Chelsea at the moment. He usually is

... wonder where the sacked one will go next

Man Utd.

I was really interested in seeing how the best club manager in the premiership was going to work his way out of the bottom of the table, a harder task than battling for the title from 2-3rd.
It was probably the hardest test of his abilities he has ever had to face and I'm disappointed he's not there to see that through.
Hopefully Chelsea get a world class replacement not some premiership cast offs like before.

Most clubs would feel that he's earned the right to have a bad season and give him the chance to rebuild. I would agree. Chelsea have proven time and time again that they are too impatient.

@loddrik - I respect his record, its excellent but all achieved that way i just mentioned. I watched Real beat Barcelona in the Copa del Ray once in a bar in Spain and Real made zero effort to attack, just waited for a chance to hit Barca on the break. It was very dull. Same at Porto, Inter and Chelsea.

Most clubs would feel that he's earned the right to have a bad season and give him the chance to rebuild

He'd be under pressure for having a bad season if they were in say 6th. They need a significant turnaround just to reach the top half of the table. This isn't "having a bad season" it's a complete, unparalleled implosion.

But he's won. Time and time again. And that's what counts. And I think he's a pretty vile character but he wins trophies.

Chelsea are still a smallish club with lots of money. And that mentality shows.

£10 on roberto di matteo (and another champions league win)

As a Liverpool fan and under Klopp I'm certain we'll start to be contenders again in the coming seasons and having Mourinho gone makes me even more optimistic.

🙄

Anyone know how much its cost Abramovich this time? Its a nice little earner getting sacked as Chelsea manager. Didn't he make something like 25 million last time he got the boot?

£40 mil was the figure I heard, almost like Jose engineered it 😉

Please not Brenda! Fans will just bide their time and wait for him to fail/leave like the last scouse reject imposed upon them. 😐

He'd be under pressure for having a bad season if they were in say 6th. They need a significant turnaround just to reach the top half of the table. This isn't "having a bad season" it's a complete, unparalleled implosion.

And it can't be the players' fault. It's either the manager or those above.

[i]I think the odds on them being relegated have just gone up significantly[/i]

Nah....quite the opposite. All of a sudden they'll pull themselves together and start grinding out results.

If Brenda gets appointed, expect to see a lot more female physios

Hellooooooo laydeeeeeeez 😀

FFS guys, can we have a spoiler alert???

Hardly worth me watching the ******g Ten O'Clock News now, is it!?!

In all seriousness: who on earth would want that job, for anything other than the massive pay off when you're sacked?

To be fair to Mourinho it can't be easy performing well when his father is seriously ill. A break is probably the best thing for him. Wouldn't be surprised if he stays out of management for a while.

If Brenda gets appointed, expect to see a lot more female physios

Eva isn't a physio, she was the club doctor.

In all seriousness: who on earth would want that job, for anything other than the massive pay off when you're sacked?

Well, I'd give it a go!

"A break is probably the best thing for him."

You would be best taking your own advice..... 😉

@loodrick, yes I know he's won and it's professional sport so that counts for a lot, perhaps everything. I just cannot call him the "best" or frankly even "special", he is effective. Well he was 🙂

I am sure we will see more these

[url= http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/34689347 ]BBC: The Unhappy One[/url]

[i]I wonder what the odds are for him as next Man Utd manager?[/i]

Very high IMHO. He was ruled out last time because he's poison and that's only been reinforced.

They should have never sacked The Tinker Man.

The had the odds from the beginning of the season on sky sports after the Leicester game. An accumulator on Leicester to win the league and Chelsea to be demoted would be 1/25,000,000!

I bet there are a few bookies in Leicester having sleepless nights just with the 1/5000 they offered on them to win it!

In all seriousness: who on earth would want that job, for anything other than the massive pay off when you're sacked?

I wouldn't want that job......... for anything other than the massive pay off when I'm sacked.

For me, the massive payoff is the clincher - Roman, are you accepting offers off the street, or do you only work through recruitment agents? Either way, I'd be glad to be considered for the role.

Chelsea will get a caretaker manager until the end of the season then will sign Simeone, Guardiola to City and Mourinho to United.

I wonder what the odds are for him as next Man Utd manager?

Not a cat in hells chance!

Hiddink will be confirmed shortly as manager until the end of the season and will meet the first team tomorrow.

Utd dont want him as they could have had him insted og Moyes

TBH I hpe we sack draw VG and get Pep but it seems the board are being loyal to the control possesions specialist

As for Jose it was largely inevitable and at times hard to see if he actually wanted to stay

Pep has a dubious history as a drugs cheat - couldnt care less to see him in the Prem

Mourinho is certainly value for money in terms of entertaiment (off the pitch), but has serious character flaws - I lost all respect for him after his dispicable eye gouging affair.
At United (with whom he was rejected previously) he would probably instill more of the LVG style hum-drum and the fans would struggle with that. Then he'd most probably lose the dressing room.

I find it completely soul destroying that the only reason people can confidently mention managers like Pep coming in mid-contract is purely down to oil money. Nothing else, just huge vast sums of throw away money.

I would sincerely love to see these cash sums being ploughed into local talent. I know its become a cliche, but the soul has completely gone in the Prem. It's a horrid spectacle on many levels.

I bet there are a few bookies in Leicester having sleepless nights just with the 1/5000 they offered on them to win it!

Oh well, never mind!

I know its become a cliche, but the soul has completely gone in the Prem. It's a horrid spectacle on many levels.

Yes - it's a classic example of the subjective nature of the word 'best'. Yes, it probably is the 'best' [u]soccer[/u] league in the world, but it is not the 'best' thing for the future of the game itself.

As it ever was..............

Utd didn't want him because of his previous '2 years of success then big fall-out' history with every club he's managed

However, as a Utd fan it pains me to say he might not be a bad choice for the rest of the season. Utd's defence is so poor their only chance is when the midfield defend. They've got this down to a tee with LVG but can't figure out the scoring on the break bit. I think Jose could get this working well with Young, Martial and Depay up front.

Something major has obviously gone wrong with the dressing room at Chelsea. BBC reporting that he's left by mutual consent rather than be sacked, which is interesting

Not very interesting really.... It's a face saving statement. The last thing he would have wanted is to leave with this stain on his record.

All started to go wrong when he hung the club doctor out to dry . Can't stand him but he is good value in terms of headlines , he track record is amazing , and will win things wherever he goes next . PSG would suit him I think, back with Zlatan and David Luis .

It has however been the most inept defense of a title holding team and he had to go and a lovely little failure on his CV. Brilliant!!!! #thesackedone

ManU. For the seasons I quoted above Mourinho is absoluteky not a ManU style manager, he is (was) functional rather than stylish. Clubs want to play like Barca, no one aspires to play like a Mourinho side.

I am sure those at Arsenal will be having a good chuckle, the Sacked One was forever baiting Wenger and look now who's sacked for diabolical performance on fhe field.

Abramovich has apparently spent £71m paying off sacked managers! 😯

Bad decision in my opinion. He's one of the best managers in the world and I disagree that his teams are dull and overly defensive. Look at how many goals his Chelsea title winning sides scored. Sure, he'll park the bus if he wants a result, but it's a results based business, and he gets results, although he's clearly lost the current crop of players. Won't be any shortage of offers for his services.

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They've got this down to a tee with LVG but can't figure out the scoring on the break bit.

Whatever you want to describe Man u s a counter attacking team on the break is not it

We play possession[ at all costs and to the detriment of flair and creativity] football. We are easy to defend against as we do it so slowly and sideways and backwards that it easy to get organised against us and stifle the one or two players who may actually score.

We control the possession within games we dont win them

I hope we sack him as his system has seen its day/wont work in the EPL

If only the toon had got their finger out and sacked McLaren Roman could have hired him to complete the circle of misery.

Agree with Junkyard about United, it's like michael carrick has infested the entire squad

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Abramovich has apparently spent £71m paying off sacked managers!

Damn! Just heard the news! FFS why? I ain't no footie supporter even I cannot believe they fired him.

He just re-joined Chelsea after a period of time somewhere and they think there is a miracle?

It's not him it's the bloody lousy players he inherited upon returning to Chelsea.

Look at the Magpie at the Toon ... we have a clown as a Manager, a clown! This bloke has a track record so bad I bet we are going to be relegated soon. Serve them right for having a clown as Manager. I wonder if we can have Mourinho as our manager ... 😛

edit: oh ya ... the woman field doctor whatever or whoever she is ... she should be fired. End off. Woman know you place! (ya, ya, sexist all that but the bottom line is that she overstepped the manager ... she is NOT the person in-charged.)

Having read in an earlier post that the club doctor is entwined with one of the first team players, who currently seems completely disinterested in playing, my impression is that JM played that particular situation naively and incompetently. Perhaps JM has/had the hots for the club doctor? Love triangles are not exactly new ground at that club after all 😀

I'd give the Chelsea job to Harry Redknapp.

I have been looking forward to this for months.

My dream was that Don Ranieri would deliver the killer blow to complete the circle.

**** off Jose

If the players refuse to play then there is nothing the manager can do. And players thinking they know best and that they are more important than the manager is nothing new.I wonder how many Leeds fans to this day wonder where they would be today if their players had decided that it might just be worth giving Brian Clough a chance.

Guus Hiddink has arrived in the UK and is currently at a London hotel holding discussions with the Chelsea hierarchy. He is yet to sign a contract, but is leaving that to his advisors while he talks about the technical aspects involved in helping Chelsea out of their perilous position. He will be the new manager on an interim basis.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/34413865

Not a huge surprise. Wonder if he'll stick around this time.

the players refuse to play then there is nothing the manager can do.