Chelsea FC Need Stability, Cannot Sack Jose Mourinho
It is very easy to lose the plot in the modern day, be it in any field of life including football. The manager can lose the plot after winning a trophy. The players can lose the plot after playing the best matches of their career. Similarly, the fans can lose it and protest against the same manager who led their team to a victory some months back. This is the harsh reality.
Unfortunately Chelsea are going through all of the above at this point of time. The players are looking defeated and demoralized. The manager is making mistakes and appears unable to come up with a solution. There is growing discontent among the fans while certain sects are beginning to doubt Mourinho’s abilities regarding their beloved club. Simply said, Stamford Bridge is not a happy place at the moment.
Chelsea are enduring their worst start to a campaign in 37 years and that too astonishingly under the most successful manager in their history. There is not one positive aspect around the club at the moment that we can look forward to or feel happy about. The players look tired physically while mentally they are fragile. These are not the characteristics we associate with a Jose Mourinho team. Although I hate to admit, it is not only the players who are making the mistakes on the pitch, but the boss himself is at fault off the pitch and on the drawing board. Football is evolving and we have failed to evolve as a team this season.
With negative results coming one after another, it has to be said that Mourinho’s positiion is not secure given that he reports to trigger-happy Roman Abramovich. The Chelsea owner doesn’t even blink an eye when it comes to firing managers when results are not desirable. Suddenly, 2007 is haunting the streets of West London.
However, I personally believe that firing Jose Mourinho will be a preposterous move by Roman and the Chelsea management.
Contemporary football’s weakness (or strength), is that it forgets the past and is incapable and too impatient to look towards the future. The hunger to win is so strong that the owners and the fans are willing to fire and dismiss managers on a whim (Arsenal is an exception!). We are so engrossed in the present that we fail to see the future and what it can offer. Maybe such a weakness is what makes modern football so competitive.
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Chelsea have evolved as a club in recent years. We are no longer the ‘Rich Club’ who are willing to splash the cash at a moment’s notice for any player who is available. The club has become more pragmatic in their transfer negotiations, balancing the books perfectly and that too within the financial boundaries posed by the FFP. Also, the club gained a reputation for hiring and firing managers which made the Chelsea manager’s job one of the most vulnerable jobs in world football. We have gone through years of instability where there was an anguish and anxiety among the crowd at Stamford Bridge each time the manager was replaced by a new one. Yes, we had a lot of success. But, success was veiled by a cloud of apprehension and trepidation.
With the second homecoming of Mourinho, it finally seemed that we were about to leave those years of uncertainty and enter into a new era, a more stable and more successful era under a manager who is adored by the players and the fans alike. Jose came back from his exploits in different countries and came with an intention to create a ‘legacy’ at the club, a word unheard of at Stamford Bridge.
In creating a legacy, there will undoubtedly be times when our loyalty is questioned and results don’t go our way, but such times should not blind us from seeing the long term goals that the manager has planned for our club. Jose Mourinho is still one of the best tacticians in the 21st century and to have such a talent set for the long haul is something we should feel lucky about.
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Yes, we are in a rut at the moment, but to think that we won’t face troubles just because the club is under Mourinho is completely delusional. If we want stability and long term success, then we must learn to endure these rough patches, support the players and the manager and place total faith in them. We need to be patient.
Sacking Jose Mourinho now will be the biggest blunder and it will spell an end for our long term ambitions. We will again head back to the Dark Ages where vulnerability and uneasiness will cloud over the Bridge. Frankly speaking, I and many other Chelsea fans dont’t want to go through that again.
It is time that we back our players. More importantly, the Chelsea management and owner should exercise patience and keep faith. If they don’t, they will not only commit the same mistake twice in one lifetime, but massively put their own club’s future in jeopardy.
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