'Sack Me If You Want To ! ' : Humiliated Mourinho Speaks Out After 3-1 Loss to Southampton

Wow ! This must be humiliating for a manager of his quality ! Chelsea Jose Mourinho has insisted that he will not be walking away from Stamford Bridge after watching Chelsea's season hit a new low with a crushing 3-1 home defeat by Southampton.

The defiant manager urged everyone at the club to 'stick together' and is convinced Chelsea can still finish in the top three . He said in a post match interview :


'I don't run away. Two, if the club wants to sack me they have to sack me because I'm not running away from my responsibilities or my team.'

'The referees are afraid to give decisions for Chelsea . At 1-1, it is a huge penalty and once again we don't get it. If the FA wants to punish me they can. They don't punish other managers. My players deserve it (fairness) and the fans deserve it,' he stormed.

 'The team try but they collpase because they are in such a low moment.I'm more than convinced that we can finish in the top four and in a season so bad, finishing top four is OK.

'If the club sacks me they sack the best manager this club ever had. This is a moment for everyone to take responsibility and stick together.

'The players have to play until the end of the season with champions on their shirt and I want to work. I have a big ego, I consider myself the best. This hurts me a lot — it hurts me as a professional and hurts me because I love the club,' he said.



Nemanja Matic was taken off having been introduced at half-time

‘It was not humiliating [for him]. I don’t do that to anyone in football or in life. It’s something if I do, I do without any intention. I like the players, I trust them and I know they are good players but some of them are in a difficult moment, and Matic is one of them. He is not playing well, he is not sharp, defensively he is making mistakes.

‘I played him because Ramires was doing a great job on Mane, but with a yellow card and an inexperienced referee I was afraid of a second yellow card, so I changed him for Matic. With the second goal I needed to make a change, play another striker for a player from midfield. 

‘I kept Oscar because he creates more, I kept Fabregas because, maybe because of his formation at Barcelona, he copes better with the pressure. Even not playing well his emotional stability is high. I decided to take Matic off, but I like the player very much. I have a fantastic relationship with the boy.’

Mourinho was asked if he would bring young players into the team when action returns  in two weeks (International break) :


'Yes. My job is not so simple because I have to measure the situation and ask myself in difficult moments if the best thing is to keep more experienced players. Can they cope better with the pressure of the moment?

‘You do the same. When I don’t play Terry to play Zouma you are the first ones to say immediately: “why aren’t you playing the captain?”

‘With Ruben, it’s exactly the same thing. Ruben, Matic, Ramires, Fabregas - who can cope better with the pressure? I know Fabregas for sure, but maybe the situation is so negative for us a young player feels less pressure than when the team is top of the league fighting for a victory to be champions.

‘Clearly it’s time - not to play four, five or six kids because some of them are not ready - but I think Ruben is the one who is more ready. If everything goes normally in the next two weeks yes, he is a player to start the next game and have a run of matches to try to get that stability as a first-team choice.’