adminLONDON. — Jose Mourinho has been fighting everyone at Chelsea as his frustration at his club’s dreadful start to the season has boiled over. Mourinho insisted he was the Happy One as opposed to the Special One when he returned to Stamford Bridge in the summer of 2013 for his second spell in charge. He is not happy any more.
The row over first-team doctor Eva Caneiro and physio Jon Fearn were clear indications all was not well last week, and the seismic 3-0 defeat at Manchester City on Sunday, which saw the unprecedented half-time substitution of captain John Terry, only brought the problems bubbling closer to the surface.
On Monday night, key striker Diego Costa and defender Branislav Ivanovic called for calm and promised things would get better, last season’s top scorer admitting he was not yet at his best.
Sources close to the club say Mourinho has been on edge at the training ground, for some time unhappy with a pre-season campaign that he admits was misjudged and not intensive enough.
He was also unhappy the transfer deals he wanted had not been completed, though Augsburg full-back Baba Rahman’s £21,7million deal has now been finalised. — The Daily Express.
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