Chelsea are ready to sack Jose Mourinho and replace him with Diego Simeone after the Champions League final.
The improbable reports coming out of France suggest that Blues owner, Roman Abramovich, is unhappy with Mourinho’s failure to win any silverware this summer and believes Simeone is the man to take Chelsea forward.
Indeed, French publication Le10Sport sensationally suggest that Abramovich now doubts Mourinho’s ability to take Chelsea back to the top and that the Russian could swing the axe before the end of the month.
Simone was heavily linked with Manchester United job before Louis Van Gaal was appointed but Abramovich believes he has a better chance of convincing the Argentine to make the move to Stamford Bridge.
It is suggested that Simeone has a release clause in his contract that has not yet expired, which Chelsea will look to exploit.
Mourinho returned to Chelsea at the start of last season from Real Madrid and signed a four-year deal.
The Portuguese boss regularly denied throughout the season that his team were title contenders and instead insisted that he had inherited a team that was now in transition.
Whilst Chelsea ultimately failed to challenge Liverpool and Manchester City for the title in the final weeks of the season and were eliminated by Atletico Madrid at the semi-final stage of the Champions League, there has been no indication that the Blues will seek to sack Mourinho this summer.
Indeed, it would be an almost unprecedented move even for Abramovich, who has a deserved reputation for impatience when it comes to managers.
However, if you believe the reports coming out of France, Mourinho would not spend long out of a job with PSG keen to take the former Porto, Inter Milan and Real Madrid maestro to Paris.
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