mourinho gone from chelski

[here comes 19]

happy days:)mourinho has left chelski by mutual consent,we wont have to listen to his bullshit anymore.it has just come up on breaking news on sky sports.

[paddypower111]

reason im on so late cause i work crapy hours. but dis is the best news iv heard all day. even though i thought this was going to happin cause i would put a 10£ bet on in ladbrokes 2morrow that the spicial sh,iit bag and frank lampard will be off to spain. i know the transfer windows closed but iv a gut feeling murhinio. can,t spell i meamn me forgive me. will be off 4 a holaday with barcalona head hunters and will have the spical tit on board as soon as possable. and cause lampard has,nt sign any contract at chelsea and his poor spanish girlfriend who got cheated on wants to move to spain. and terry i don,t know did he sign a new contract??????????? i dont know but. have a bet on special omelate mourinio will be in spain with barca. and lampard follows. if this happins it would be the best news all summer. good riddins to him and lampard hopefully. mayby terry 2 jeez if this happins lads chelsea the billionairs will be mid table by the last few weeks in may halllowya. lets see all the so called irish chelsea jersy wearers walking around now they,ll probaly have liverpool 1s on next. and to all the chelsea fans out there saying there a big club abd won,t be beaton 4 years ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa . im not getting carried away but i like it when big mouth fans like chelsea and tottanham predict things . and they all end in tears . i know its harsh of me but there the 1s mouthing off . im a liverpool fan with years and i don,t go predicting the future 4 my club like they do. abramavice is a joke blowing money on crap . look at our new owners they keep there head down focous on what rafa needs and help when and if they can . abramavice buy what he wants and could,nt care about any 1 else and if he leaves chelsea could be in leauge 2 in no time. does any 1 agree with me . liverpool have done a better job by finding the right owners 4 the club rather than chelsea getting greedy and could lose it all after whats happined today???????????????? soorry i just have to lay=ughing every time i think of it lol lol------- L F C TILL I DIE Y.N.W.A a big team with a good heart liverpool i mean;)

[Ligger]

Mutual consent my arse, 4 days before they play Man Ure and he leaves. Either he was sacked, my view, or he got a stroop on oversomething and walked.

[dubit10]

Quit my hole!!!Check his backside for a big russian size 10 imprint:D Good ridence to a right F**king tosser

[callyno3]

just heard this :D.
Who will take over from the so called special one tho?

[callyno3]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/7004083.stm
Looks like avam grant the current director of football could replace him

[Block102]

just heard this :D.
Who will take over from the so called special one tho?

BBC reckon Avram Grant will be named boss today

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/7004083.stm

[Gerry]

Staunton to take over ? the gawffaa

[RedWally]

He'll walk into another job. We'll still be listening to him. Martin Jol could be nervous this morning! Unlikely he'd goto a smaller club like Spurs though.

[davidsatelle100]

i would say he walked, they wont have thrown him out 4 days before ManU.

He was probably brought in and told off over the CL game and got his usual strop on, wouldn't shake hands with any one and then when he couldn't blame anyone else walked out.

[Aido82]

fantastic news this is

[pam]

his eggs are rightly scrambled today:D

[sean]

Who's the special one now eh? :D

I feel a bit sorry he's gone though, they were on a hiding to nothing if he had stayed imo

[paddypower111]

:cool:steve stauntan 4 the job at chelsea lol:D he,ll play a 4 4 2 with a right back on the left and a left back on the right terry up front transfer ballack, lampard, kalou drogba. and bring in aimin mgeady lee carsley kilbane steven kelly , . jeysus they,d be championship leauge 2 style then lol:D:):p . chealsea fans must be turning up 2 a lot of docters today . with simthyoms of pale blue faces lololol

[paddypower111]

lampard will fallow suit if not this year next cause he,s played in champions leauge i think????? or has he hopefully terry goes aswell

[megager]

Good news for arsenal more than any one.

Jose will be named Spurs boss, put money on it. I for one like mourinho. His rants are bizarre and alot of what he says in tongue in cheek.

We have not seen the end of him in the premiership.

[Naas 26]

When Mourinhio first game he was a welcome change from the usual Wenger or Ferguson and the way they went on, with i am the special one and the way he would talk to the press. In fact it gave us some very funny times on Gift grub. There was also a time where if liverpool could not win the title you would hope chelsea woud just so United wouldn't. Mourinhio has now got boring and predictable after a while some of things Mourinhio just get in on you.

Just know they can't have our Rafa

[sean]

Looks like Avram Grant is getting the nod for the job

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/7004083.stm

[Aido82]

i know nothin about this grant fella

team spirit will be really low me thinks

[marko]

Spurs = the special one

Cant see this happening,
Would be a bit of a comedown for his ego, i'd say jol is sweating though.

[Malzheimer]

Abramavoich lost his patience with the sh*t attendances and dull performances against mediocre teams. I thought it would be interesting to see what happens when they hit their rocky patch. And it turns out when the going got tough Moaninho got going. Not so special now are we??

Roman doesn't understand the game, he see's Chelsea as his toy, and if he's not having fun then something has to give. Can't say I feel sorry for Jose he's an arrogant twat who Rafa has consistently got the better of in the last few years both psychologically and on the pitch when it matters.

Good riddance to him, and as said before Chelsea in 5 years will be just another mid-table team, they've had their 5 mins of fame now fu*k off and leave it to the big clubs with history to compete for top honours

[Dub13]

Maybe the FAI tapped him up....!!!

I would not be surprised if he ended up at Man You next season.

[scousedub]

Maybe we could get him in as Rafas no.2 to replace Pako;)

[LOU2]

best news ive heard in a long time brightens up everyones day,
the man god dam true more strops than a hormonal teenager i wrecken he was sacked

[fitzpatrickgary]

great news he s gone could see lampard drogba and terry follow suit if the special tit is in a job before january transfer window maybe spurs

[James]

It is great news for us and Utd as he is an amazing manager. It doesn't matter who comes in now as Chelsea will never be the same again. Abramovich has been obsessed with Real Madrid since that 4-3 match at Old Trafford and now he has decided to act like them. This jewish fella coming in will be gone within 6 months. If he changes the way they play they will lose more games, if he keeps them playing the same football hes sacked. I think you will find Abramovich and Arnesen will have a big say in the team selection and the other fella will be the fall guy.

As for Mourinho himself I never really had that much of a problem with him. He talked rubbish regularly but that was just to keep the focus away from his players. I genuinely believe he is full of admiration of our club even though he didn't see eye to eye with Rafa. Whenever I heard him talk outside of football he came across as a good guy. I'd like to see him do some television work but I have no doubts Moratti is on the phone to his agent right now. Inter have been waiting for this to happen for 18 months and Mourinho has always said nice things about them. It's nailed on.

[LOU2]

avram grant and steve clarke to take over from today just released on sky news

[Elnino_the_kid]

2 reasons to be cheerfull today

1. Liverpool FC TV channel 448 on sky starts today at 6

2. Mourinho is sacked , so in years to come we can say when was liverpool tv started ?? we can say the day mourinho was sacked ha ha

[SUPERFAN]

he's a great Manager Lads,let's not forget that.i for one think he'd be a big loss to the League and really hope he stays in England.i think the only Club that could tempt him to do so is Spurs.
apparently Abramovich stormed in to the Dressing Room after the Villa defeat and completely blanked Mourinho and walked over to Terry to get his opinion.looks like Terry went over to the Abramovich camp after he got his mega deal.if that's the case then Terry has gone down in my estimation.
if Lampard has any sense he'll go and i reckon Drogba will be gone in January too.
Abramovich probably has himself convinced that he can just buy the Title again and win the CL but i reckon he'll really stuggle to find someone to fill Mourinho's Boots.

[yodabenitez]

I hope he hangs around, he's great entertainment & Rafa has his measure.

Could be a fair bit of upheaval at Chelsea.

Think I said it on another thread somewhere but this really does show that managers should manage & owners should own. I'm liking our lot more and more.

[Jockser]

Im gonna really miss him. Loved the contraversy he created. Its going to be a duller league without him. Oh and spurs havent a hope in hell in getting him. I reckon scholari will be out of a job and Mourhino will be the new Portugal coach.

So now its down to a 3 horse race for the prem this year after an early faller :)

[dubit10]

When Mourinhio first game he was a welcome change from the usual Wenger or Ferguson and the way they went on, with i am the special one and the way he would talk to the press. In fact it gave us some very funny times on Gift grub. There was also a time where if liverpool could not win the title you would hope chelsea woud just so United wouldn't. Mourinhio has now got boring and predictable after a while some of things Mourinhio just get in on you.

Just know they can't have our Rafa

You have to be kidding me right.This guy was a class A wanker of the highest order.He moaned so much he made slur alex look like a nun.Good ridence to him and hope we have all seen the last of him:cool:

[megager]

I think spurs is the ideal club for him. he would turn them around too. I tell ya if he was their manager, there would be no letting 3-1 leads slip at fulham. Unbeaten in stamford bridge as well.

I hope he isnt in charge when spurs come to anfield, cos if he is I could see them sneak a result

[SUPERFAN]

This guy was a class A wanker of the highest order.He moaned so much he made slur alex look like a nun.

that has nothing to do with his ability to Manage a Team and win Trophies mate.he wouldn't be my favourite Person either but i have to give credit where it's due.
did you Hear Chelsea have Launched a new After Shave?
it's called The Special One by U GO BOSS!:D

[Gerrard85]

good ridance. arrogant disrespectful and full of himself. roman sent him packing, what a blow to his ego! there new guy is an unknown, never managed outside israel. can only be good news as well. hopefully fat frank will follow suit!

[clarni]

I think the fun part of any chelsea match was the post match interview. He's so full of himself it's hilarious.

[Terry Conlon]

Got out before he was pushed. Loads of time to talk about eggs now. What a muppet!

[sean]

I didn't think I'd ever say this, but I'm sad enough to see him go. He was a class manager, and alway had something to say every weekend after a game - how many of you out there can honestly claim you switched off Sky Sports just before Mourinho had his say on camera. He'll be a loss to the league if he goes back abroad, but I wouldn't say his departure is the best thing for Liverpool. This Israeli dude could cause a surprise and end up leading Chelsea to the title.

[liamo3]

Got this piece below from a good source

The real Chelsea story....Worth a Read

Tuesday, 10pm, home dressing room, Stamford Bridge. Andriy Shevchenko is taking Michael Essien to task on his performance in the night's embarrassing 1-1 draw with Rosenborg. The former European footballer of the year tells Africa's finest midfielder that he tried to make too many passes through the centre of the Norwegians' formation where '70 percent of their players were'. Essien learns he should have been passing to the wings 'where they only had 30 percent of their men'.
Not the most insightful of tactical advice, but then these are not the thoughts of a Ukraine international, they are those of a Russian billionaire. Standing beside Shevchenko, tactics board in hand, Roman Abramovich is the man telling Essien how to play football. Shevchenko is merely there to translate. In another room, attending to the press, Mourinho is utterly unaware of his employer's actions.

Tuesday, 7:11pm, the home dressing room. Chelsea's squad of 18 are called out for their pre-match warm up. All the players step out for the carefully prepared drill - except one. John Terry remains sitting where he is. One of Jose Mourinho's assistants urges Terry out. Chelsea's captain refuses, swears, and, according to an eye witness, says he is upset and has 'things on my mind'. Terry is said to be furious after finding out that Mourinho had been asking in Chelsea's treatment room whether there was a medical reason for his perceived loss of form over recent weeks. The stand-off continues until a team-mate cajoles his friend out on to the pitch.

The game starts, Chelsea quickly lose a goal at a free kick as Miika Koppinen stretches ahead of Terry to turn in a near-post cross. Chelsea go in at half time 1-0 down and Jose Mourinho takes his captain to task, blaming the defender for the deficit. Terry says nothing but all his team-mates can see the anger on his face.

The pair had once been the closest of footballing allies, but within 24 hours Mourinho is no longer Terry's manager as Chelsea agree to a £10.5million pay-off to rid themselves of a man they describe as 'the most successful manager the club has known'.

'The relationship broke down not because of one detail or because of something that happened at a certain moment. It broke down over a period of time.' - Jose Mourinho, 21 September 2007.

To understand how the winner of two Premier League titles, two League Cups and one FA Cup, a man who averaged an unprecedented 2.33 points from his 120 Premiership games in just over three seasons, steadily became persona non grata at the club he made great, it is necessary to return to the summer of 2005.

'In Jose's first season everything was fine,' said a Chelsea employee who suffered the Abramovich guillotine long before the Portuguese. 'He came in, he won the title by miles, almost made the Champions League final, everyone was happy. But then it all began to go wrong. Peter Kenyon started thinking it was his genius as a chief executive that was important. Abramovich's mates were telling him his money had done it and any half-decent coach would win the league with those resources. They forgot that the most important man at any club is the manager.'

That summer, Chelsea poached Tottenham Hotspur's sporting director Frank Arnesen at a cost of £5m. Ostensibly recruited to revolutionise the club's sub-standard youth ranks, the Dane was actually brought in on the recommendation of Piet de Visser, a well-known Dutch talent scout who had advised Abramovich on football matters from his first months as Chelsea owner.

Arnesen and De Visser, friends and allies from their time together at Dutch club PSV Eindhoven, steadily worked to influence Abramovich's thinking on the first team, and, most importantly, player recruitment. Along with the agents Soren Lerby, Vlado Lemeic and Pini Zahavi they sought to steer Abramovich towards the purchase of certain footballers. Their objective, according to one source, was 'to get to Abramovich's money. To do that they needed power at the club, needed a manager who would do what they wanted. Mourinho was not that manager.'

Thus emerged a power struggle in which Arnesen and others seemed to undermine Mourinho by questioning him at every opportunity. When Mourinho went to war with Uefa over the actions of referees they told Abramovich his coach was embarrassing the club. When Mourinho's team dourly won key matches by a goal to nil, they told the owner a better coach would win by more goals and bring him far more flamboyant football. When a Mourinho signing failed to perform on the pitch, they told Abramovich that better players could be found elsewhere.

Within a year, and despite Mourinho's success in claiming a second successive Premiership, the manager had lost control of transfers. In the 2006 summer window, Mourinho asked the board to buy Samuel Eto'o; they spent a UK record £30m on Shevchenko. Chelsea sold William Gallas to Arsenal against Mourinho's wishes, and forced the £7m Khalid Boulahrouz upon him, while Arnesen compounded the error of allowing Chelsea's most effective defender to leave the club by pulling the plug on the £5m purchase of Micah Richards. Inside a season Richards was a full England international, while Boulahrouz was stinking out the reserves until Chelsea paid Sevilla to take him off their hands.

At least Mourinho could easily leave the Dutch defender out of the first team. A personal friend of Abramovich's, Shevchenko played regardless of his performances, and those were usually awful. In his first 26 appearances for Chelsea, the Ukrainian striker scored five goals. His coaches and team-mates often felt as though Chelsea were playing with 10 men and Mourinho was faced with a problem - should he leave out the owner's pal or lose the faith of the rest of the team?

As January approached, Mourinho asked to be allowed to sign a new striker. The board refused. Mourinho asked for a centre-back to cover for Terry, then sidelined with a serious back problem. The board offered him a choice between Alex, a Brazilian bought via De Visser and 'parked' at PSV for two seasons, and Tal Ben Haim, a Zahavi client. Mourinho wanted neither.

Worse still, Chelsea's manager was instructed to sack one of his assistants and add the Israeli Avram Grant to his coaching staff. When he refused, the club descended into open warfare.

[liamo3]

Continued

Mourinho dropped Shevchenko from his first team, leaking the story to a national newspaper in an open challenge to Abramovich to sack him. On an emotional afternoon at Stamford Bridge the manager first rallied his team around him, then sent them out to overrun Wigan 4-0. Long before kick-off the Chelsea supporters were chanting 'Stand up for the Special One' through standing ovation after standing ovation.

An infuriated Abramovich ceased attending games and instructed his advisors to find a replacement coach. Mourinho let it be known that he would leave, but only on payment of the outstanding value of his contract - about £28m comprising £5.2m per annum for three-and-a-half years and up to £10m in bonuses. In the meantime he kept winning matches, pushing his injury-hit squad to within a few games of a remarkable quadruple.

Ultimately Chelsea won the League Cup and the FA Cup, forcing Abramovich to reconcile with his manager. A consciously 'mellow' Mourinho promised to avoid conflict with opposing managers and football authorities, accepted restrictions on his transfer budget, and reshaped his team in a more flamboyant 4-4-2 formation. Fatefully, he also acceded to the appointment of Grant as Chelsea's director of football.

Though some in Mourinho's camp had Grant pinned as a 'Mossad Spy' from the off, the manager attempted to work with him, holding long meetings with him during the club's staggeringly positive pre-season US tour and letting it be known that he welcomed his arrival as a buffer against Arnesen and route to Abramovich. The early-season optimism, however, swiftly evaporated.

Grant began calling individual players aside to ask them questions.
'You look sad, why?' 'How do you feel in this position?' 'Is this the best place for you to play?' 'Are we using your abilities well?' Because many of them complained about this to Mourinho, the manager decided to cut back radically on team meetings, the only one this season having been arranged for the Jewish New Year when Grant had returned to Israel.

While Grant looked on at training, Shevchenko treated it with disdain. A morose, lonely figure around the camp, he seemed to show more interest in improving his golf swing than his shooting. As the first team prepared for their final pre-season friendly against Danish side Brondby, Shevchenko declared himself unfit with a back problem. A 2-0 victory ensured the £121,000-a-week striker was not missed, but Mourinho was bemused to discover that Shevchenko's bad back had not prevented him from enjoying a round of golf at Sunningdale that day.

The board, though, were not interested and the club's descent continued. Other players began to realise what was happening, that the summer's peace was a false one, that their manager had no support from the top. 'The mentality became weaker and weaker,' said one insider. 'You could feel the team's strength sapping away.'

Mourinho knew his time at Chelsea was coming to an end. At Uefa's forum for elite coaches in Geneva a fortnight ago he allowed Premier League rivals an insight into his thinking. 'Mourinho said he loved Chelsea and he loved English football, but thought he would not stay for long,' said one coach. 'One of us asked him why. He wouldn't answer, but it was obvious something was seriously wrong.'

His next Champions League match brought the end. On Wednesday afternoon the board asked Mourinho to resign, citing his handling of Shevchenko, his attitude to authority and, crucially, his relationship with Terry as reasons why he should go. Mourinho refused to walk, and fought only to maximise his pay-off as Chelsea apparently threatened to call club employees to testify against him at any employment tribunal.

A £10.5m pay-off was agreed and the following morning Mourinho made a final trip to the training centre at Cobham to pick up his possessions and say goodbye to his squad. There was a message in each farewell. For most there was a Latin embrace and warm words of thanks. For Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard the emotions were so strong that both men were reduced to tears, Lampard retreating to the shower room in an attempt to hide his. For Shevchenko and Terry there was nothing but a handshake that, in the words of one observer, could have 'frozen a mug of tea'. No one was in any doubt about who he considered the true captains of his team.

Out with the old, in with the new. Furious at Mourinho's dismissal, senior players describe Grant's appointment as 'a disgrace'. Some at Cobham call him 'an idiot' and describe his coaching techniques as '25 years behind the times'. Abramovich pushes the Israeli around 'without a hint of respect'.

Former academy coach Brendan Rogers has been drafted in to help out with the first team, a promotion that may not be unconnected to the one-on-one training sessions he gave Abramovich's son. Only in Steve Clarke is there the level of football knowledge to deal with a squad full of international superstars. As the sole survivor of Mourinho's cadre of four assistant managers, the Scotsman has an unenviable task.

But then neither he nor Grant will be picking the team. As Michael Essien discovered on Tuesday night, the new manager of Chelsea is also the owner

[megager]

Amazing read. I feel genuinly sorry for Mourinho. I know a lot of Pool fans hate him, but there are greater evils at chelsea now than him.

[LOU2]

dam right that man didnt even so much as crack a smile last night when they scored.......

[RedNip]

Very insightful read that everything that is wrong with modern day football!
Massive, massive mistake by Abramovich to sack Mourinho there is so much unrest among the staff & players it will take a new manager years to build a new team & get them back on top.

Just going back to the Terry injury seems a very small thing to fall out with your manager over! anyone remember just before he became England captain the humours going around & again at the end of last season, of him handing in a transfer request!

[Ligger]

I won't shed any tears for the special one but I do think the russian has made a huge mistake. He will get bored soon enough and leave them too it and as they won't be profitable for about another 10 years according to Kenyon (hows that for no pressure on yourself) they could end up beside Leeds in a few seasons... Ah we live in hope.