Hiddink must restore title-winning mindset at Chelsea – Zenden

The results sees Chelsea go 15th, four points clear of the relegation zone, with the first-half display in the first period in particular, full of the kind of verve missing in recent weeks and months.

He gave the conditions after reports linked him as favourite for the Chelsea job upon Jose Mourinho’s demise on Thursday.

Terry has been one of Mourinho’s most trusted lieutenants and was captain throughout the Portuguese coach’s two spells with the London side dating back to 2004.

“During his career, Jose has sometimes chosen to leave a club, but only at Chelsea has the club decided that he should leave”, Mourinho agency said in a statement. “My personal situation would be last season we won the Premier League and the League Cup and I felt part of that”.

Chelsea are being linked with moves for two strikers in January, while former goalscoring hero Didier Drogba could return to the club for a third spell. And I think the memories of what he has brought to this football club in 2004/5 onwards to what he done a year ago and everything else and the fans will never forget that and that’s why they showed their appreciation.

“It is going to be hard to win every game, we know that, but step by step there are a lot of games over Christmas”.

“But coming back from 3-0 down, even at 3-1, it’s a big task, even though we had chances to score more goals”. “Our position is very poor, had we lost today we would have gone into the bottom three, so it’s a very important win”.

“I am looking forward to working with the players and staff at this great club and especially renewing my wonderful relationship with the Chelsea fans”.

“They’ll support us through this hard period and we will come out on top sooner or later”.

He said, “I want to get some good insight before I make my decision”.

Hiddink led them to an FA Cup during that period in 2009, but Ivanovic says things have changed drastically since then.