The fracturing of the relationship between Jose Mourinho and his players, which ultimately led to Chelsea sacking the most successful coach in their history less than halfway through their Premier League title defence, started with the manager fuming at his club for losing to an undermanned MLS side, a ‘Mickey Mouse team.’
The club’s technical director, Michael Emenalo, said a ‘palpable discord with the players’ led to Mourinho's sacking following a training ground Christmas lunch on December 17 last year, per the Guardian’s David Hytner. For all the club’s unhappiness at such unexpected plain speaking, he was not exaggerating.
By the end of his second spell in charge, the man who had led Chelsea to a runaway Premier League victory just seven months earlier was publicly complaining about being ‘betrayed’ and privately searching for the ‘rats’ responsible, while the players were simply sick and tired of Mourinho’s unrelenting manner.
Matt Hughes on Mourinho, Meltdowns and a Season in Reverse (bleacherreport)
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