Jose going nowhere

Bounty Hunter

Kenyon has finally come out and shown that the club is willing to publicly support Mourinho and stated he isnt going to be sacked in the Summer and that chelsea have no list of replacements drawn up.

Surely this is good news fo all fans (esp chelseas) as Jose is a special one, one who makes the premiership better IMHO.

mike65

That statement means nothing if Jose decides he'd like to leave anyway.

Mike.

bucks73

Yea Kenyon is paid to say crap like that. I bet Roman doesnt come out and say it publicly.

PHB

It's an open secret that Kenyon is backing Mourinho to the hilt.

Two things matter here:
Ambrovimich
Mourinho

If Ambrovimich wants him gone, wants more attacking football, as is rumoured, he is gone, and if Kenyon keeps doing this, he'll be gone too.

If Mourinho gets fed up with Chelsea, if Ambrovimich doesn't support him, or buys players without his consent, he'll be gone too.

growler

JM isn't going to be daft enough to leave Chelsea of his own accord, he's on a winner , has a lot of great players , access to potenially huge funds, adoration of the fans, media darling / hate figure, and hasn't the ego to allow him to leave without having won all the silver on offer (plus all the cash that goes with it). So unless the relationship with abramovich is now so bad that he feels he cannot stay, I cant see him waving goodbye to X millions for a chance to join an estblished super-team where the only way is up.

Glad to hear Kenyon (manc that he is) say this, the players have all been frank about their wishes, the fans are 99% behind him and everyone believes that sacking The Special One would firmly classify Abramovich as the world's richest loon.

PHB

Unless the rumours are true, and Ambramovich really does want attacking football

leninbenjamin

My theory: its a money thing. Jose wont leave because of the potential payoff should they fire him, and Chelsea wont fire him because of said potential payoff. AFAIK Chelsea still havn't renewed the contracts of Jose's backroom staff, and most expire in the summer, so it looks like Chelsea still want to push him out...

it's like a game of Jenga or something.... no one wants to make the next move for fear of bringing the house down.

growler

can't believe that Abramovich would be too fussed about paying out the remainder of Jose's contract if that is what he really wants to do, its not like he's going to notice the few million. I think that sense will prevail and that Kenyon must know that sacking JM would probably go down in history as the world's most stupid footballing decisions, the fans will be furious and any replacement has will have such big boots to fill that they would have to be nuts to take the job on after a Jose sacking. I don't honestly believe that any manager could acheive more without buying a new team of superstars and even then that will take a few seasons.

Abramovich may wish to watch a style of football but chelsea fans after our years of mediocrity are happy enough with our less than beautiful game that wins trophies........ that said if he changes manager, bring in the world's best players, plays exciting attacking football, beats spurs 8-0, and can still win trophies I doubt I'd be complaining too much, or maybe ou recent success has made me greedy.

leninbenjamin

growler wrote:

can't believe that Abramovich would be too fussed about paying out the remainder of Jose's contract if that is what he really wants to do, its not like he's going to notice the few million.

then why wouldn't he sanction the buying of a defender in January? payout would be in the region €15 - €20 million i think, enough to get in a very good player.

SCULLY

mike65 wrote:

That statement means nothing if Jose decides he'd like to leave anyway.

Mike.

Which is the same for any other manager in any other team

growler

leninbenjamin wrote:

then why wouldn't he sanction the buying of a defender in January? payout would be in the region €15 - €20 million i think, enough to get in a very good player.

I've no idea, but then things didn't work out all that badly and I imagine the demonspawn Kenyon was the one behind that curtailment of expenditure.

PHB

I think it's possible Chelsea's greatest crime that they don't play attractive football.

Considering their unlimited wealth, they could easily put together a team of the greatest attacking talent in the world, but choose to play boring effective football.
Like even now, they could play attacking football, but choose not to.

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Cech

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-Ferreira--Terry--Carvalho--Cole
-SWP----Ballack---Essien--Robben

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Shevchenko---Drogba

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would be a fearsome attacking sight, but they don't do it.
If Ambramavich is a real lover of football, which he seems to be, I think the style of football is something he could really want to see changed.

Bateman

If you want entertainment go to the cinema. Chelsea have perfected the art of winning games; that in itself is attractive enough. Or should be.