Not-so-special one: Jose Mourinho surges to the entrance of the Premier League sack race amid Tottenham’s horrible mid-season stoop

Tottenham Hotspur’s dismal latest type may spell the tip of Jose Mourinho’s tenure after a bunch of bookmakers put in the Portuguese boss as the favourite to be the following for the Premier League managerial scrapheap.

Spurs have come up brief in 5 of their previous six Premier League fixtures, in addition to being turfed out of the FA Cup after they drew the brief straw in a nine-goal thriller with Everton.

That latest run has been a far cry from the shape that had Mourinho’s facet on the summit of the desk a number of months in the past, prompting bookmakers to forecast that he could possibly be the following head coach in line for the chop.

The membership’s 2-1 defeat to London rivals West Ham on Sunday has amped up the stress even additional on the under-fire Mourinho, with two outstanding UK bookmakers’ slashing the percentages on him being issued together with his marching orders from 7/2 to 23/10 – figures that make him the favourite to be sacked forward of Newcastle’s Steve Bruce and Crystal Palace’s Roy Hodgson.

The failure to beat West Ham implies that Jose Mourinho now has the bottom league win share of any Tottenham supervisor since Juande Ramos.

— Daniel Storey (@danielstorey85) February 21, 2021

He’s misplaced the staff, has to go.

— JB (@JonBonney) February 21, 2021

Perhaps Spurs want higher defensive middle backs, however you’re telling me Pochettino wouldn’t be scoring Three-Four targets per sport with these attackers? Mourinho sucks and must go.

— MC DM (@mdelmuro) February 21, 2021

The distinction between Spurs’ present type and the performances that made them early-season contenders is stark. Critics have stated that Tottenham have develop into over-reliant on the type of star placing duo Harry Kane and Son Hueng-min, and that the staff vastly underperform when the pair are out of the staff – an all-too acquainted scenario relating to the injury-prone Kane.

Mourinho does not consider that now is similar to sound the alarm bells regardless of having the bottom successful share of any Spurs boss since Juande Ramos, who lasted lower than a 12 months within the job.

“I would not say disaster,” Mourinho stated, adopting damage-control mode after chairman Daniel Levy watched the West Ham defeat.

“I might say a nasty – actually unhealthy – run of outcomes. That’s apparent. We’re dropping too many matches.”

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In typical Mourinho style, he was unwilling to simply accept any criticism from the media when requested if his teaching fashion was having a damaging influence on the staff, defiantly telling them that he stays some of the productive and dependable mangers in world soccer.

“No, under no circumstances,” he insisted. “Mine and my teaching employees’s strategies are second to no one on the planet. I believe for an extended, very long time, we’ve issues within the staff that I can not resolve on my own as a coach.”

Liverpool’s Jurgen Klopp nonetheless charts extremely within the sacking stakes. The membership’s run of 4 straight dwelling defeats has left the membership mired exterior of the Champions League locations – with the German now fourth-favorite to lose his job within the coming weeks, which might have been unthinkable a 12 months in the past.

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