Mourinho praises medical team but Carneiro stays suspended

“Jon Fearn and Dr Carneiro will not be on the bench on Sunday (tomorrow) but that doesn’t mean they cannot be in the future”.

With Chelsea already down to 10 men after Thibaut Courtois’s red card, Mourinho, who said he could tell Hazard wasn’t seriously injured, was infuriated that Carneiro and Fearn’s decision briefly left his team without another player as the Belgian waited to return to action.

Mourinho lead Chelsea to their fourth Premier League title last season, while they also lifted the Capital One Cup.

“Speak with me about football“.

However, for all that he enjoys confronting the media, Chelsea and Mourinho have sometimes cancelled his press conference appearances in a bid to limit the damage caused by uncomfortable topics.

However, that reportedly incensed Mourinho further, as he demands total loyalty and privacy from his inner circle and it has long been clear at Chelsea that members of the backroom staff are to be seen and not heard.

“For others it is more important what they do”.

Mourinho has been strongly criticised over the reports and Wenger said that it was risky for a manager to do anything that might damage unity within his club. Interestingly though, when that became common knowledge, information was leaked via the always-for-sale Duncan Castles that “Portuguese coach was concerned that the dressing room dynamic was affected by the presence of a female”, forcing players “alter their usual behaviour in a team environment”.

Revealing all about the doc who “ruined my life”, Rupert said: “Eva is a very sexual woman and not many people know the real her”.

We have disagreements during this period, we need disagreements to improve.

Referring to the punishment given to the medical staff, Mourinho said: “The bench is my responsibility, it is my decision, Every week I face a decision”.

Mourinho used fewer players in the Premier League last season than any other manager – the result, he said, of the team starting well and players, in effect, becoming undroppable – but the upshot was that they were shattered towards its end. The game is a very emotional space for all of us. Top class games are very often decided by the narrowest of margins and in a game that was so delicately poised, and with Chelsea arguably pushing for a victor, being without Eden Hazard for even a minute could conceivably have been the difference between one point and three.

Carneiro came out on Facebook and Twitter thanking the public for their support – a move that surely hasn’t gone down well with Mourinho, as I’m sure it wouldn’t with many other managers.

Indeed it was prior to a match with City last season that Mourinho backed out of a press conference in anger at what he believed was an attempt by the Football Association to make Blues striker Diego Costa a scapegoat for his stamp on Liverpool defender Emre Can.