Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho’s recent behaviour is due to him “begging for the sack”, according to former Liverpool midfielder Dietman Hamann.
The 42-year-old German believes that Mourinho appears to be falling out with his own players too often this season and his treatment of key members of the squad – such as John Terry and Eden Hazard – has fallen short of what is required in the Premier League.
Mourinho’s first major decision came in the early defeat to Manchester City where he dropped Terry to the bench, and the likes of Nemanja Matic and Ramires have also been dropped from the side when deemed to have underperformed.
Some of the stuff he [Mourinho] is coming out with at the moment and over recent weeks is not far from a meltdown. It’s John Carver-esque,” Hamann said on TalkSport.Most recently, it was the turn of last season’s Player of the Season in Hazard to sit on the replacements’ bench as the Belgian was left out of the side that beat Aston Villa last weekend. Mourinho elected to bring Hazard on in the 89th minute, and Hamann believes it was a decision taken to “humiliate and embarrass him” rather than trigger a response.
“I don’t know what’s going on with the owner and what the circumstances are, but to me at times it looks like he’s begging for the sack.
“The thing that worries me about Chelsea is that he seems to be falling out with all the players. If you want to get a reaction from a player and you put him on the bench like he did with [Eden] Hazard the other day, it’s not a problem. But you don’t bring him on in the 89th minute to humiliate him and embarrass him even further.
“And he’s done it with most of the players. [Branislav] Ivanovic has been labelled as a player who hasn’t performed this season, which may be true, but if you do it with one or two players to get a reaction that’s fair enough, but I think he has done it to most of them now.”
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