Chelsea should keep Jose Mourinho, says Zlatan Ibrahimovic

The Paris Saint-Germain forward, who has played 111 times for his country, said he could not say if we would play for his country after next summer. If I will be playing the qualification for Russian Federation, I don’t know. I don’t know. You can never know. “That is too far, too soon to answer”. Few players have both of those qualities, so the defenders are not used to that.

The 34-year-old helped his team qualify through the play-offs last month, scoring twice against Denmark.

Sweden has been drawn in a tough group for France in June next year, comprised of Italy, Belgium and the Republic of Ireland.

The Blues will need to orchestrate a quick turnaround if they want to steer clear of the relegation zone and find a way to upset PSG in the Champions League Round of 16.

Senior Chelsea management, including Russian owner Roman Abramovich, held a nine-hour meeting last week in the aftermath of the club’s defeat by Bournemouth, with Mourinho’s future the focus of the discussions. “PSG gave French football a gift with Zlatan”, he told RMC.

The raging debate surrounding Chelsea this season has been the spectacular decline in Mourinho’s ability to motivate his players – something that has usually been a hallmark of his work in football management.

Mourinho parted company with Chelsea yesterday after their catastrophic start to the Premier League campaign, which sees them occupy 16th spot in the table.

“In my thoughts now I don’t have any destination”, he said. “My contract ends and then you are free to do whatever you want, so something totally new for me”.

Although the Swede worldwide was linked with several clubs during the summer transfer window but he instead choose to stay and see out his contract that still have a year to run at the French capital. But I believe there’s no such thing as revenge. “This is something I don’t want to miss”.