Cristiano predicts poor season for Blues

Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo believes Jose Mourinho’s exit will cost Chelsea when the trophies are handed out later this season.Mourinho’s shock departure from the Stamford Bridge hot-seat last month left new coach Avram Grant with a huge act to follow – and Portugal international Ronaldo believes that cannot fail but to have an impact. [...]

The Mourinho Exit Winners And Losers

Happy He’s Gone
Roman AbramovichThe moral of the story is that, regardless of the success a manger brings, the owner is still the most important man at the football club. In a battle of wills, there can only be one eventual winner. Even armed with public support, Mourinho was fighting a losing battle against Roman’s [...]

Jose-less Chelsea crash to defeat

Jose Mourinho must be having a good laugh somewhere out there. Having just pocketed a cool 20million pounds to leave the managerial post, he just watched Chelsea’s new puppet, Avram Grant lose 2-0 to Man United. A superb glancing header from Tevez in the dying minutes of the first half, as well as a late [...]

Ferguson: I’ll miss Mourinho

Sir Alex Ferguson admits Jose Mourinho’s dramatic departure from Chelsea this week came as a major disappointment to the Manchester United manager.
Mourinho was due to take his side to Old Trafford on Sunday to face Ferguson’s United before the Portugese unexpectedly left his post on Thursday.
Ferguson attempted to play down the impact of Mourinho’s absence [...]

Mourinho: "If you ask me if I’ll miss Manchester United’s fans, Liverpool’s, I say yes."

LONDON (AFP) – Jose Mourinho claims his next job will not be in the Premier League but he would love to return to the English top-flight later in his career.
Mourinho’s three and a half year reign at Chelsea came to an end on Thursday when he left Stamford Bridge after a series of rows with [...]

Jamie Redknapp to bring glamour to Chelsea?

In possibly the most mental development in the whole Chelsea saga, Jamie Redknapp has apparently been approached to become Avram Grant’s assistant to bring ‘glamour and popularity’.

Roman Abramovich and Peter Kenyon have obviously been impressed by Redknapp’s ‘expert’ opinions on Sky Sports, where he regularly comments that Frank Lampard (his [...]

Chelsea not entertaining? You mad?

Anyone who thinks Chelsea have not played entertaining football under Jose Mourinho must be barking mad.
I saw them play some fabulous football – games like the 4-2 win over Barcelona come to mind – in the days when they had Damien Duff and Arjen Robben down the wings [...]

Elmo to take over as Chelsea Manager.

Now that the hot seat is vacated, i wonder who will be the one to take over. Eclipsing the ‘Special One’s’ accomplishments will be no mean feat. However, a few interesting characters could possible make it. But there can be only one, at it will be Elmo.
You either love him or hate him. I think [...]

Mourinho sacked? Good news for Tottenham!

Soccernet has 2 contrasting headlines on their mainpage this morning. But nevertheless, its major news, but one which i think was coming for a long time. I was actually planning to pen something about how i think this season would be Mourinho’s last, not because he was lacking as a manager, but because the club [...]

Chelsea in Crisis? Oh, don’t be daft.

At the end of last week 2-0 loss to bogey team Aston Villa, Chelsea owner Roman Abrmovich rose from his chair, took a moment to shake hands with another VIP, walked up a short flight of stairs and out of public view.
Cue the media mayhem! Roman Rift with Jose! Jose to be sacked! Crisis at [...]