Chelsea: Cesc Fabregas says players must justify ‘big wages’

Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas feels all the big players at the club need to up their game in order to drag the London side out of their current slump.

The under-fire Portuguese manager explained that he had warned his players about the threat posed by table-topping Leicester’s fastmoving strike force.

Fabregas indirectly backed his manager by saying that the players must take responsibility for the results and Mourinho does not deserve all the criticism.

Every week I think it’s going to be the end and they will start winning games but something has happened.

“I don’t know what happened to us against Leicester. In the game against Porto, a very good team, we played very well, we scored two goals and created chances, but we were like another team on the pitch against Leicester”.

“Confidence is important until a certain point.

We can not win the Premier League right now, but we must do better”, the 28-year-old said.

Fabregas, speaking at a Facebook question and answer session, added: “Right now is not the time to think of where we might finish”.

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho during the Leicester City v Chelsea Barclays Premier League match at King Power Stadium.

Chelsea legend Frank Lampard has tipped Roman Abramovich to stick with under-pressure boss Jose Mourinho despite the Blues’ struggles so far this season. It is a dramatic fall from grace for a club that, with the squad of players available to them and the money that has been spent, should be challenging for the title every season.

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While it wasn’t an emergency meeting, they are said to be questioning who will be placed in charge of the club’s upcoming home game against Sunderland on Saturday.

“It’s a magical time, we must continue to work hard because I don’t want to wake up”. “They have to look to Sunderland and Watford and say we are at the same level as you are”. I think all the great players go through a period where nothing works.

“It is a little problem with his hamstring but I hope he can be ready for the next match”, said the Italian.