Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho insists he's staying to fight for job despite Liverpool defeat

Jose Mourinho insisted he won't be going anywhere at Chelsea

A DEFIANT Jose Mourinho last night insisted: This team is together - and I'm not going anywhere.

 

Despite the bookies making him favourite to be the next Premier League boss to be sacked after the home defeat against Liverpool, the Chelsea manager insisted he is staying in his job.

When asked if he thought yesterday's defeat could be his last in charge, he snarled: "No, I don't."

Mourinho also hit back at suggestions that he may have 'lost' the Stamford Bridge dressing room.

 

He said: "I have no doubts. If you saw some individual performances below a normal level, there were not many. I would say there were, a maximum, a couple.

"Even these ones, they suffered because they are not able to do more. The team is together.”

Owner Roman Abramovich missed yesterday's disaster, but was briefed soon afterwards.

Mourinho and his back room staff talk on the pitch after Chelsea's defeat

And it's understood he will give Mourinho time to halt Chelsea's slump.

But Mourinho knows that a Champions League defeat to Dinamo Kiev on Wednesday will make next Saturday's match at Stoke vital for the manager, despite the owner's support.

And he admitted that this loss heaped more misery on him and his family, adding: "I don't think we'll have a great Saturday dinner."