Jose Mourinho’s future as Chelsea manager is in
suspense over his failure to lift the team out of their alarming slump,
according to British press reports on Wednesday.
The Daily
Mail said that the Chelsea board was due to meet to discuss Mourinho’s position
on Wednesday, while the Daily Telegraph claimed the club’s hierarchy was
drawing up a list of potential replacements.
Premier
League champions last season, Chelsea are currently just a point above the
relegation zone after losing nine of their 16 matches to date. They have,
however, reached the Champions League last 16.
Reports
suggest it would cost Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich between £10 million ($15
million, 13.7 million euros) and £40 million to sack Mourinho for a second
time, having previously dismissed the Portuguese in 2007.
Mourinho
signed a new four-year contract in August. Chelsea gave him a public vote of
confidence in October, but there has been no official communication from the
club on his position since then.
Mourinho,
whose side host Sunderland in the league on Saturday, was expected to take
training as usual at the club’s training ground in Cobham, 17 miles
(27 kilometres) southwest of London, on Wednesday.
Several
newspapers, including The Sun, reported that Chelsea’s players were angered by
Mourinho’s claim that they had “betrayed” his work following Monday’s 2-1
defeat at league leaders Leicester City.
But
midfielder Cesc Fabregas says that it is the players’ responsibility to haul
the club out of their current predicament.
“We all
have to take responsibility,” Fabregas said in a Facebook interview. “If you
are a big player and you are paid like a big player, you must play like a big
player and behave like a big player.
“We can
bounce back, 100 percent. There is enough time to achieve it, but we must start
now. It is up to us.”
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