Jose Mourinho Would Find Leicester City Winning Title “Magnificent”

His replacement Mourinho breezed into Stamford Bridge, pronounced himself “a special one” and won the league at the first attempt with a core of players including Terry, Lampard, Claude Makelele, Wayne Bridge, Joe Cole and Damien Duff, who had all been cultivated by Ranieri.

But what are the odds of Chelsea causing an upset on Monday night?

Tickets for the game are now sold out.

But Blues fans have stuck by their under-pressure manager and chanted his name during Chelsea’s morale-boosting Champions League win over Porto. That run was broken in last weekend’s 3-0 defeat of Swansea City, in which Riyad Mahrez scored a hat-trick, and the Algeria winger believes the pressure on Monday will rest on Chelsea’s shoulders.

Sanderson said the player is now rated at £25 million after surpassing Ruud van Nistelrooy’s Premier League record for scoring in consecutive games, bringing him to the attentions of Europe’s elite clubs.

“When you finish a cycle, another cycle opens”, Mourinho said.

Ranieri was up against Jurgen Klopp, who had been on a run of four straight wins with Liverpool, Tottenham head coach Mauricio Pochettino and Everton boss Roberto Martinez. Coupled with intermittent tales of discord among the ranks and an evident lack of leadership when captain John Terry has either been omitted or injured, Chelsea have floundered.

Leicester possible starting XI: Schmeichel, Simpson, Morgan, Huth, Fuchs, Mahrez, Drinkwater, Kante, Albrighton, Ulloa, Vardy.

“They are in such a position where only three things can happen to them”, Mourinho said. I said before they can not win the title.

“It would be something magnificent, something to impress the football world, but sometimes these things can happen and why not happen with them?”

They sound like some of the swipes Mourinho has taken at Wenger, the manager at Arsenal, in recent years.

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho says he is slightly embarrassed by his enduring popularity with the club’s supporters.

“I don’t think next season someone will come and beat his record, it is not an easy one to do”. We are under-performing, Leicester are where they are because they are doing magnificently well.

Leicester City manager Ranieri: “There is an electrical momentum here”.

“I think the end of the season is the moment to change things, when people analyse the work of the season and believe that the best time is to change”. Now I just want to go on vacation in Brazil.