There is no real appetite for change among the Chelsea hierarchy but mid-season removals of the manager have sparked upturns under Roman Abramovich
José Mourinho is working on the reasonable assumption Chelsea have changed. “I know the history of this club,” he had conceded this month. “Every time the results are not good, there was a change of manager. But when I was contacted to come back, I was told: ‘We had so many managers, and we know you are the best.’ So I think it’s time for the club to act in a different way, to mark a position of stability, a position of trust.” Where once the default was to mobilise the lawyers with compensation packages to discuss, and turn to an interim, now the Premier League champions are supposed to be about continuity.
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