P302Rivals Football - Chelsea FC
That's It
by Famous, 23/05, 15:38

As I've said, I'm not claiming he hasn't made mistakes and I'd have given Brana a break but then Jose knows these players more than we do and clearly he thought playing him through that bad spell was the best course to take. TBF he came back and looked a lot better after his injury and the next manager kept playing him (and Guus had more games in charge this season than Jose did).

The point I'm trying to make here is that letting the players off by saying Jose failed doesn't make sense. We had a 36% win percentage under Mourinho and a 37% win percentage under Hiddink. So who is to blame for the shit we still saw in the second half of the season, if not the players? All the off-pitch stuff is a sideshow, personally I love all that kind of thing and I missed it between 07-13 (though it's not as easy to revel in when you're not winning, I accept that). If Jose were allowed his own staff in the first place, the whole Eva thing wouldn't have even happened. And we're already seeing the same thing with Conte before the bloke's even arrived, which is going to come back to bite Roman (and therefore, us) in the arse when it all blows up, which it will because he is a similar character.