Jose Mourinho Jokingly Names Players Causing Alleged Mutiny at Chelsea

When Jose Mourinho launched his new book entitled Mourinho on Thursday evening, much of the press coverage focused on The Special One's controversial comments regarding his one-match stadium ban, per the Telegraph's Matt Law.

However, Mou was also asked about the alleged mutiny, according to the London Evening Standard (h/t the Daily Mirror) forming in his dressing room. The 52-year-old proceeded to give a curious answer, per Dominic Fifield of the Guardian, in which he quoted the players who have supported him before jokingly pointing the finger at the stars who are not singing from his hymn sheet:

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“My reaction, and I’m only speaking about the last three or four days, is Asmir Begovic said: ‘We have the best manager in the world,’” he added. “Kurt Zouma said the same. John Terry: ‘We have the manager we want, the one who can help us to revive this situation.’ Diego Costa: ‘If you ask every player in the world, they will all answer the same, that they’d like to work with three managers and one of them is this one.’

“Who else? Cesc Fàbregas, the same. Ramires, the same. Ruben Loftus-Cheek, the same. Gay [sic] Cahill, the same. Eden Hazard, very similar.”

He then added with a smile: “So I think the mutiny must be... must be Baba, Baba (Rahman) … who else? Papy (Djilobodji) ? (Radamel) Falcao? Oscar? So these four don’t play Saturday for sure.

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It seems that Mourinho was playfully dismissing the idea of a mutiny, but then again, many a true word is spoken in jest...