JOSE Mourinho insists Chelsea are not in crisis – but accepts the question marks over his team's performances are legitimate.
No wins in four and successive defeats to Everton in the Premier League and FC Basel in the Champions League have brought some early season pressure to bear on the Blues.
Defeat to Fulham in Saturday's tea-time derby is unthinkable. But the Chelsea boss says he is not worried by the blip, only concerned about moulding a new Chelsea.
“For me, no crisis. It's two bad results," said the Chelsea boss. "Tomorrow we win 3-0 and everything becomes perfect. Or we lose after four years and so many matches and it’s a big story.
“The team was brilliant against Bayern Munich, but it's also part of a process – this instability. When you live in this formation process a player can be a five or a one.
“What sells papers are big victories or big defeats, but believe in my work and the players’ work.”
Mourinho continued: “I think scrutiny is normal. I’ve been in football a long time so I’m not surprised with scrutiny and critics and everything else. I’m not surprised, I’m not worried.
“I know where I want to go and I know the steps I have to give and when you want to build something different and the players are adapting. It has been the philosophy for years.
“The easiest thing for a new manager is to arrive at a club and not to change or to be even in a better situation which is keep some things and buy a couple of players but go in the same direction.
“If you want to do something different there is a period where I understand that if the results are not good people put some question marks in the direction you go.”
The Portuguese added: “I don’t like the way Chelsea was playing in the last couple of years. We want to change. We have the players with the profile to change. We want to play a different style.”
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