Chelsea Coach Jose Mourinho Fired After Team’s Losing Start

Well, it finally happened.

Chelsea’s website hailed Jose Mourinho on Thursday as the best manager in the club’s 110-year history but it did not stop Russian owner Roman Abramovich firing him for the second time in eight years.

“Chelsea Football Club and Jose Mourinho have today parted company by mutual consent”, the statement read.

“The club wishes to make clear Jose leaves us on good terms and will always remain a much-loved, respected and significant figure at Chelsea”. “His legacy at Stamford Bridge and in England has long been guaranteed and he will always be warmly welcomed back to Stamford Bridge”.

The move isn’t unexpected – at least not based on recent results.

Mendes feels Mourinho was unlucky to get the boot just seven months after winning the title. The team released a statement on Thursday announcing the news and thanking Mourinho for his work with the club.

“I don’t think Mourinho is a manager who cracks the whip”, the 64-year-old added. “But I do that with every club, so for me I did that with everyone but the only one where I wear the shirt twice was Chelsea because I was in the club where I was”. In total, Mourinho won three EPL titles, three League Cup wins and an FA Cup.

The personal conduct of the self-styled “Special One” was also proving damaging to Chelsea, with Mourinho engaging in public spats with referees, a television rights holder and even the club’s doctor over the past year.

One of Mourinho’s jibes at Wenger was that the Frenchman was “a specialist in failure”, providing an open goal for some Arsenal fans reveling in the misfortune of one of their club’s greatest adversaries. Manchester United would never have been fifth from bottom while he was in charge there because he would have cracked the whip.

It will be the second time Dutchman Hiddink has taken over at Stamford Bridge on an interim basis – after being parachuted into the role in 2009 to replace Brazilian World Cup victor Luis Felipe Scolari. Though Mourinho has won each honor in English soccer, he by no means managed to win a European trophy in both of his two spells at Chelsea.

Hiddink rarely stays in one place long, so he’ll likely be gone after this season is finished.

But he insisted that this wasn’t a pre-meditated decision and there is a contingency plan in place for Chelsea’s game against Sunderland this weekend. Carlo Ancelotti is also a name to ponder for the position.