Mourinho is enduring his toughest time at Stamford Bridge since 20th September 2007 when the Portuguese and the Londoners decided to go their separate ways.
The three matches that Roman Abramovich gave him, following the 3-1 home defeat to Southampton, to turn things around did not go according to plan:
the Blues beat Aston Villa (2-0), drew with Dynamo Kiev (0-0) and lost to West Ham (2-1).
Sources in England say that Mourinho has just two games to get back to winning ways: Tuesday’s fourth-round Capital One Cup tie against Stoke City and Saturday’s home game against Klopp’s Liverpool. The main high street bookmakers have Mou at 3.25 to be the next Premier League manager to be sacked. The only coach ahead of him is Steve McLaren (Newcastle), who is priced at 2.25.
The main obstacle to getting rid of the former Real Madrid boss is his big-money contract. ‘The Special One’ signed a new five-year deal in August and sacking him would cost the club about 50 million euros, which would be the game’s biggest ever pay-off.
