Mourinho in fresh trouble as FA charges Chelsea, West Ham

It was a decision which infuriated Mourinho, who made his displeasure known to the fourth official and assistant referee.

But the Blues have failed to kick on from last term and now languish 15th in the league with five defeats from their opening 10 top-flight games. However, it is more likely the case will spill into the early part of next week, leaving him to take his place in the Stamford Bridge dugout at lunchtime on Saturday.

“It ” s my firm belief that there needs to be an urgent summit meeting between Jose Mourinho, Bruce Buck the chairman of Chelsea, Richard Scudamore, the chief executive of the Premier League, and Mike Riley, general manager of PGMOL.

Mourinho signed a new four-year contract on the eve of the season-opener with Swansea but 59 days later, after a 3-1 loss at home to Southampton, he was the subject of the first vote of confidence in a manager in Roman Abramovich’s 12-year ownership.

Jose Mourinho’s failure to talk to the media after Chelsea’s defeat to West Ham has drawn an FA charge, but coming after a raft of rants, can’t hide the crisis he’s suffering at the Blues.

The behaviour of their manager has been all the more worrying, with reports of unrest in the dressing room following the bus-up with former team physio Eva Carneiro also repeated questions about the quality of refereeing in the club’s matches. But it is about the whole team and everyone played well from Adrian through to Sakho. No matter how true that actually is, it is a brush that Mourinho’s teams are tarred with. There is a sense that they were the catalyst to the wave of rich foreign sugar daddies who were inflating prices within English football, buying all the talent and creating a chasm between the rich and the poor, at both club level and fan level.

“The only negative is that we lost a few players through injury during the week, but I will have to rest a few players Tuesday night against Sheffield”. “Why would they change him?”

“We have to recover from this defeat [at West Ham] as quickly as possible, and our mentality has to be to win and get through to the next round”.

Stoke are playing Chelsea in Capital One Cup this midweek and Jose hopes to retain the cup.

Right now it is hard to see how anyone outside SW6 can support Chelsea.

Chelsea are the “perfect” opponents for Stoke City to return to winning ways, manager Mark Hughes said ahead of welcoming the struggling champions in the League Cup tonight.