Touchy Jose Mourinho kicks narcissism into overdrive during Chelsea press

Why have Chelsea been so bad this season, after being so brilliant during their double-winning 2014-15 campaign?

“We realise where we are in the league, where we are in the Champions League group”.

“The player [who wanted to lose] wouldn’t be let out of the dressing room, let’s be honest”.

“I saw him again before the game at the weekend [against Liverpool], he was still adamant it was a sending off, I was still adamant it wasn’t”. We are together. The manager has always been the same.

“It didn’t get heated at all, we just had a man-to-man discussion”. We will turn things around.

Asked whether it could lead to Mourinho’s sacking, Terry said: “It’s not going to come to that”. Whether it’s been going bad or really bad. “I’m sure he’ll be the manager at the end of the season… and long after I’ve finished at this football club”. “It wouldn’t go down too well, would it?”

Alessandro Proto – a shareholder at Monaco – met with Roman Abramovich in London and offered to pay out the Portuguese tactician’s contract, according to the report.

Bayern coach Pep Guardiola expects the Gunners to come out fighting and said: “They will not park the bus but attack”.

Fabregas denied suggestions of a rift with Mourinho, accusing “certain individuals from outside” of trying to destabilise the club and refuting reports that he is leading an alleged dressing-room revolt. “Fantastic personal relationship. Very good professional relationship”, he said at a pre-match press conference. No ifs, no buts.

They are third in their Champions League group but Mourinho said they would finish first or second to qualify for the last 16. “It took time, but it’s come in a moment when I’m stable and strong to face it”.

Meanwhile, Chelsea legend Frank Lampard has stated that the club should stand by Mourinho for now, but he admits time is running out for him to keep his job at Stamford Bridge. “That’s the only way I’m thinking”. The table doesn’t lie.

Mourinho often shoulders the burden on himself, deflecting attention from his players, Terry says. “It is a question for the players not for me”.