This is not exactly news anymore but I'm only writing about it now because admittedly I'm a lazy bastard. I should have written about it last week when it happened but the prospect of switching on my mind and aching over the choice of words was enough to convince me that a simple status change on Facebook would be sufficient for the time being.
I'll get right to the point: Chelsea, more precisely Roman Abramovich, are stupid to have sacked or agreed to let Jose Mourinho leave.
It is now well documented that Roman the Russian let himself be manipulated by Chelsea's head scout, some super-agent and that shit-faced unqualified dumbo Avram Grant they have appointed as head coach (they didn't bother to give him the Manager title). Not that Roman the Russian was just a blind puppet of course, he is equally guilty of trying to go beyond just signing the checks and into the Manager's territory. Giving Michael Essien tactical inputs and signing the expensive but ultimately rather useless Shevchenko and Ballack are just a few well-publicised examples.
So while I'm pretty sad that Mourinho has left as he made the Premiership a fair bit more exciting than it was, his leaving makes a whole lot of sense. And reports that he got a payoff of 15-25m make it an even better deal.
Here's hoping that Chelsea have a crap season from now on. Certainly started off well with a 2-0 defeat to ManUtd on Sunday. I'll end with something pretty insightful I read on football365.com:
Grant is the third successive Chelski manager pitted against ManYoo in his first match. The pragmatic 1-0 victory of August 2004, exploiting Roy Keane's vulnerability at centre-half, set the tone for Mourinho's successful but functional reign. Likewise, the chaos of the 3-3 draw at Old Trafford in September 2000 was maintained throughout Claudio Ranieri's tenure.
