the sun UK,
interview with the special one
notice how everybody is under scrutiny and attack except the special one
Mourinho: My Blues stink
December 30, 2006
JOSE MOURINHO blasted his Chelsea stinkers as they fell SIX points behind Manchester United.
The Blues boss was fuming at his side's 2-2 home draw against Fulham.
And he also had another dig at £30million flop Andriy Shevchenko, who was dumped to the bench against the Cottagers.
Mourinho let rip with both barrels, claiming:
Opponents can smell the fear in Chelsea
His team cannot defend
His players cannot adapt to different situations
He only has one striker.
Mourinho fumed: "I am disappointed because we didn?t get the result we wanted, but not so disappointed because it is not a big surprise for me.
"Everybody knows in this moment that Chelsea cannot defend. I am the first one to know that.
"Maybe we are not as good as we think, maybe I am not such a good manager, maybe the players are not such good players.
"When the game goes on and the opponent sees one mistake, and another mistake, and another mistake, they smell the chance.
"It is exactly the opposite of previous times for us. Teams knew they couldn?t score against us and we could dominate matches - now they know they can."
He added: "They chased the luck and the luck came. But Paulo Ferreira is not a central defender so he does what he can.
"Hilario is our third-choice goalkeeper and in my opinion he does what he can to the maximum.
"Ricardo Carvalho is the only central defender we have and he is doing the maximum he can, because he knows he is the only one to play there."
Mourinho felt his side could have put the match out of sight early on but wasted numerous chances.
He said: "In the first 15 minutes of the game we had five chances to score, some of them with an open goal, and the first time Fulham attacked, we gave them a goal - this is Chelsea at the moment.
"When the game goes to the last 15 minutes and the opponent puts more pressure on us, we cannot cope with that pressure and concede the second goal.
"The way teams play in this country you need very strong central defenders in the air.
"I think if you play with this defence in another championship, or even Champions League, it is not a big deal.
"But in this country everybody has tall, strong strikers. They put the ball in the box. We do not dominate the game in the air.
"What can you do with Ballack? Nothing. What can you do with Geremi? Nothing.
"The players have no qualities adapted to the game opponents are playing against us - it is as obvious as that.
"In attack, in this moment, we have one player performing and scoring goals. All the other players are not performing well enough. That is obvious.
"But we cannot defend, we concede incredible goals, and in attack we have one player."
the only thing i like about this interview is that the special one has got balls to say what he wants and isnt scared to come out.
but having spent approximatley 300 million pounds on players since his arrival this interview is very comical.
10 years of FIF
