
Jose
Mourinho should show humility and accept where he has gone wrong, according
to Chelsea great Ruud Gullit.
The former Blues player and manager believes Mourinho is the only one who
can turn around Chelsea's miserable season - but only when he accepts the
blame for their plight.
Speaking to Sky Sports'
Goals on Sunday, Gullit said: "In the past,
when a Mourinho team won, it was Mourinho who won, and when a Mourinho team
lost, it was Mourinho who lost.
"But all of a sudden, this year, it is Mourinho blaming the players. It is
Mourinho who wins, but the players who lose. He is criticising the players,
whereas before he always protected them.
"If you keep on moaning all the time, if people wait for the moment, then
you get things against you. Be humble and say 'okay, it's wrong, and I take
all the blame for it' and then people can get over it.
"He is the only one that can change it. If he'd have said after the last
game 'I was wrong, I didn't need to do that, I was emotional. You're all
right, I should have the punishment', then everyone would forgive it and
forget it.
"If he makes that humble statement, only that one, then it will change
everything. Maybe I am wrong, but that's my opinion. You can't only be
humble when you win, but not humble when you lose, and I think that's
something he should do now."
Gullit is also convinced that other teams no longer fear Chelsea, and it is
another comprehensive factor behind their run of seven defeats in 12 Premier
League games.
"People look at Chelsea and think 'we can beat them'. They have lost that
aura of invincibility," he said.
"You can sense it, and the Chelsea players sense it; that the opposition is
not afraid anymore. And to get it back comes only by results.
"Players want to win. There's no player who doesn't want to win. Chelsea
played well against Stoke but the attitude of the opposition is different,
and they now attack Chelsea and make chances nobody had. They go on you,
press you. It's different."