Chlesea crisis getting dirtier by the day
Posted on January 17, 2007 - Filed Under English Premier League, European Soccer, Soccer | Leave a Comment
Its getting murkier by the day it appears like this will go right down to the wire but the sad fact is that this promises to get dirtier and dirtier not just damaging the wonderful culture that Chelsea has build over the past few years, since the arrival of Russian Oil Baron Roman Abramovich, but this could also cause long term damage to English Soccer in general cos now they potentially stand to lose one of the best minds in soccer today.The fact that Jose is the only soccer Coach to have honor of being immortalized in the wax of Madame Tussauds speaks volumes of his pedigree both as a great thinker and executioner of his plans on the pitch.There are now reports flying around in gossip magazines and tabloid columns that it is almost certain now that Jose Mourinho is out of Stamford Bridge at the end of this season and looks like Chelsea have also identified his replacement in Milan tactician Carlo Ancelotti.
The crux of the matter is sadly a totally personal issue which has been blown out of proposition and now it’s become a full blown saga of ego that could only end in one result – axing of Jose Mourinho. Pre-season signing of Michael Ballack and former AC Milan sharp-shooter Andriy Schevchenko were supposed to take Chelsea beyond the reach of any of their title contenders but sadly like so many times in soccer things don’t really go according to plans and the move severely back fired on the Blues. The multi-million stars haven’t just played below par they have also become liabilities in the sense that almost after six months into the season they seem to be shadows of the players they’ve known to be. Add to it the fact that other clubs have caught up with the champions has also taken off the invincibility sheen of the Londoners… a fact that has surely hurt their ego more than anything else.
Ballack has still been an easy and level headed contender for Mourinho but its Scheva who’s been the thorn in his flesh since day one. His rather indifferent form was first excused as he was still getting adjusted to English style. But as days turned weeks and weeks to months it looked like the one-time-best-feet in Europe had simply forgotten the art of slotting in home from six yards in the box. The straight thinking Mourinho was neither afraid of dropping his stars nor was he scared of criticizing them when they woefully under performed. Jose has never known to have any personally grudge against any player and never has he had any personal favorites… the man just knows one thing – Soccer… he picked players on performance on the pitch and hard work in training. From him the only thing mattered was winning and winning as a team… though a defeat never bothered him what did was his players playing below themselves.
Scheva once a darling at San Siro was now a outsider at the Bridge a fact that along with his own growing frustration became his own undoing. Further his proximity to Chelsea owner would have made him a tricky candidate for anyone else but not for the ones like Mourinho he continued to bench the Ukrainian and the rift continued to get wider and wider and so did Jose’s distance from Abramovich. So much so that once the great general of the Chelsea army is now no more in talking terms with Abramovich. Jose would have been the first guy to put in his papers had Chelsea genuinely lost (which they still haven’t with the season a long way from over) but the way he and his footballing genius has been disgraced is sure to make him walk off feeling more bitter than ever in his life.
The storm is far from over but it would now be interesting to see if Mourinho picks the out-of-form striker for the weekend’s fixture against Liverpool… again any other manager than Mourinho would have done that but having seen the Portuguese man thus far I am sure he’d pick the eleven on form and not under any pressure from anyone. Some of the players have already pledged their support to Jose including skipper John Terry and leading scorer Didier Drogba. Keep it right here guys…. Cos this isn’t surely the end of it…
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