Chelsea board to decide Mourinho’s fate

Chelsea lost their ninth game of the season at the weekend when league leaders Leicester City beat them 2-1, leaving them only one point above the relegation zone.

Mourinho said that his squad have “betrayed” him as they sit just one point outside of the relegation zone.

Although Abramovich will meet the £40m compensation package if necessary, it would be the second time he has forked out a small fortune to get rid of Mourinho.

Certainly, Juan Ramos, who managed Chelsea technical director Michael Emenalo at Spanish club Llieda, would be a deeply unpopular choice following a disastrous spell as Tottenham Hotspur manager.

Club owner Roman Abramovich has held talks with Chelsea’s board over the past 24 hours regarding Mourinho’s future, with it seeming increasingly likely that the 52-year-old’s neck is on the line following an very bad season for the club. “I have no doubts and you know me well enough that I’m not afraid of a big challenge”.

Mourinho said that in recent games “we were defensively good”, as shown by a number of clean sheets, an aspect of his side’s performances he is eager to see improve.

Playmaker Cesc Fabregas has criticised the attitude and behaviour of he and his team mates in the wake of champions Chelsea’s alarming slide down the Premier League table.

Chelsea, who will face Paris Saint-Germain in the last 16 of the Champions League, host fellow strugglers Sunderland on Saturday.

Mourinho told Chelsea’s underachieving stars to be humble as they look to turn around their dismal defence of the English title and claimed he wants to remain in charge. “They’ve been carrying him”.

“The players at this minute can not feel top players or they are superstars”.

“But I have to say what they set out to do when Jose Mourinho came back was to have a long-term plan”.

Poyet continued: “I have no words, no explanation”.

“My board, my club, I don’t think it’s right that I go to them and say these players are not good, we need to spend £50 million or £100m or whatever, I don’t think it’s fair”, he added.

The Algeria worldwide joined Leicester in a £400,000 deal from Ligue 2 club Le Havre in 2014 but his value has now rocketed with Claudio Ranieri insisting he could not even put a figure on it. “I worked four days in training for this match”.