Some of the suggestions over what will happen at Chelsea should Jose Mourinho survive the current crisis is that Roman Abramovich will back his manager in the January transfer window.
According to some speculation, Mourinho will look to freshen up his squad with some sales and arrivals, but as John Giles said on Off The Ball, that is dependent on if the former Real Madrid, Inter Milan and Porto boss manages to cling on to his job.
"That's if Mourinho is there. If it goes that badly, I don't think he will be there. I think there's a lot going on at the club from Mourinho's point of view particularly. It was in the public domain that the 23rd of May last year, he submitted a list of players for the next season and he didn't get them," he said, before touching on the Pedro transfer to Stamford Bridge, which he believes Mourinho was not wholly in favour of.
"I think Mourinho wanted to buy at least two or three top class players to enhance the squad because they didn't have a big squad last year. They needed two or three players, new blood like Liverpool did in their great years. When Liverpool won the leagues that they won, they'd buy Mark Lawrenson, they bought Kenny Dalglish after selling Keegan, they bought Graeme Souness, Hansen ... they always added to the squad, although they were successful and that's the way to do it. Chelsea didn't do that and I think Mourinho wanted to do that. So I think there's a lot going on at the club between Mourinho and Abramovich apart from the results."
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