Sunday, January 07, 2007

MOURINHO, BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW


An awful lot of speculation in the media in recent days claims that Jose `the special one´ Mourinho may be given the boot from chelski.
At first glance i thought how great this would be, because i do not think there has been a more annoying little twat involved with english football. But if you actually sit back and think about this for a minute Jose has done all the other clubs a huge favour.
He has had endless resources at his fingertips and he has spectacularly wasted an incredible amount of money. Just think back through the last 3 premiership games where he complained about the injuries that were causing his team to drop points, they drew to Reading Fulham and Aston Villa, now chelski had a minimum of 60 million worth of players sitting on the bench for all these games, more money than were spent on the teams and in Readings case there total squad.
So the question has to be asked if you lose one defender to injury and have that amount of money sitting on the bench can you really complain about injuries or should you be questioning the players you have bought for your squad. Last summer they sold Gallas ( huge mistake by his russian master) to get Ashley(i love money) Cole and also sold Robert Huth. Why was Eidur Gudjohnsen sold and why was Damien Duff sold because chelski are surely a lesser team since their departure.
Now any manager worth his salt with the money the special one has had should have been reinforcing his weakest area (defence) even before his russian master sold Gallas, but instead he spent his summer romancing Ballack because Jose seen the german as the final piece in his quest for total world domination....thats worked out pretty good.
So the rest of the premiership are much better off with Jose at the helm.
Consider what would happen if a Wenger or Benitez had been in charge of chelski and had that amount of money to spend...chelski would be miles ahead in the prem and in Europe.
But also remember this, Roman already has Jose`s replacement on his payroll, Guss Hiddink is currently manager of the Russian national team but been bankrolled by Roman Abromovich, so not only is roman`s rubles lining up ready replacements for chelskis players, but the new manager is already waiting in the wings just a plane ride away.
So Jose do us all a big favour and stay just where you are.....