This season the stars haven’t favoured Chelsea FC, and as they take on Liverpool on Saturday the team and the manager need all the help in the world. Chelsea, last year’s champions, sit at the 15th position in the league table with just 11 points on the board. With a pathetic start to their season, Chelsea seems to be on the brink of giving the axe to their ‘special’ manager Jose Mourinho.
But these are still early days in the competition and as footballing stars have come out to support Mourinho with Thierry Henry saying “They are still the champions. I think they’ll bounce back” and Jamie Carragher voicing his appreciation of Jose and saying, “I wouldn’t sack him if I was Chelsea. I think he’s a fantastic manager, his record shows that”; we too have come up with five reasons as to why Chelsea should hold on to Mourinho
1. He is the Special One
Jose Mourinho hasn’t played a single game of football but has won 22 trophies in his full 13 seasons as a football manager and that speaks volumes about his quality as a manager. Mourinho has won trophies with all the teams he has managed. Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid, wherever Mourinho went he added trophies to his trophy shelf. He led Porto to a treble and a historical Champions League win. Moving on to an English challenge, he won back to back league titles for Chelsea. Furthermore in his two seasons at Inter Mourinho pulled off a Porto, and lead the Italian giants to back to back league titles including a treble and also delivered the Champions League title for them. At Real Madrid, he created history by winning the league with a record 100 points! Now when the things don’t seem so merry at Stamford Bridge why aren’t Mourinho’s laurels taken into account. Did they get him because of his track record and the ability to deliver then why not trust him to do that?
2. Chelsea’s knight in shining armour
Mourinho is arguably the best manager Chelsea has ever had. Nobody doubts the exploits of Carlo Ancelotti, but the relationship between Chelsea and Mourinho is just special, and Mourinho has himself said that “I am loved in England”. In his first season at Chelsea, Mourinho lead the team to their 2nd championship title in the history of the club, and in the very next season in an instant replay Chelsea won the Premier League again standing 8 points clear of Manchester United. Mourinho has been instrumental for Chelsea’s successes. They were the champions last season because of the tactics of that Portuguese who made Terry and Lampard the great Chelsea icons that they are. Now when Chelsea finds itself in a muddle, sacking Jose is not the solution because one person who can actually turn it around for them is him.
3. Mourinho leads to breakthroughs
Mourinho is a great tactician and it is these tactics and because of these plays that Real Madrid won the league in 2012/13 season by a record hundred points. Mourinho can be attributed to having been the one who solved the tiki-taka puzzle. In his first stint, he was humiliated by Barcelona losing to them by 5 goals but it is the Mou magic because of which Real Madrid ruled the El Clasico winning the Copa Del Rey and developed a lethal counter attack. Mourinho plays the game like no other manager and in this situation what Chelsea need is something different, something ‘special’.
4. A lack of suitable replacements
If Chelsea doesn’t appreciate and understand the class and potential of Mourinho and choose to sack him then the main question that stands is who will replace Jose Mourinho? The potential contenders who stand on the same level of greatness as the special one are Pep Guardiola and Carlo Ancelotti, both of whom are unavailable for Chelsea. Guus Hiddink is rumoured to become the interim coach, but that still is not a long term solution. And frankly if Chelsea plans to appoint any other manager may it be Brendon Rodgers or AVB or Avram Grant, it would be like settling. These managers for all their achievements are not on the same level of footballing intelligence as Jose Mourinho and giving them the reins of the club would be like leaving the winner for the person who inst even in the race.
5. It’s Jose Mourinho
We are talking about Jose Mourinho. He is the Special one. He leaves the club if he wants to (flashback 2007 when he himself left the club because of conflicts) and on his terms. Plus Chelsea got Mourinho back to deliver results for them and that he did. They entertained one trophy-less season to be crowned the champions in the next. Chelsea is not Real Madrid and Mourinho is special to them. They extended support to him earlier this season and hopefully will stick to their mastermind. Also sacking Jose will prove to be very expensive for Chelsea because it entails payment of a compensation which is 30 million euros!