Chelsea's Jose Mourinho reveals what WOULD make him quit amid late-night summit

The champions' top brass spent hours at Stamford Bridge on Saturday evening staging an inquest into poor start that continued with loss to Southampton

Jose Mourinho survived a crisis meeting at Chelsea on Saturday night - after insisting he will only quit if he loses the dressing room.

The Blues’ boss said: “Go straight to the players. If they tell you they don’t trust me, that is the only thing that can make me resign. The only thing.”

Jose Mourinho

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is understood to have remained at Stamford Bridge until around midnight after the 3-1 defeat by Southampton as the club conducted an urgent inquest and examined their options.

The champions' hierarchy were alarmed by the shambolic nature of the defeat, which saw fans turn on Mourinho and left his players incredulous as Nemanja Matic, thrown on as a half-time substitute, was himself replaced after just 26 minutes.

That humiliation is understood to have gone down particularly badly, despite the Special One’s insisting he did not mean to hang the Serb out to dry.

It has also emerged the Special One, who defended his fiery outbursts at his players last Friday, has had heated words with both John Terry and Branislav Ivanovic in recent weeks.

In both cases, player and manager have moved on.

And on Sunday, Terry said: “We have a big group of players and we have the best manager who we remain behind and we remain together.

“That is what you do in tough circumstances. I have been here a long time and I have seen managers come and go and if anyone is going to get us out of this hole it is going to be Jose Mourinho.

“And the players will remain together and fight, and keep fighting for the supporters because they were excellent on Saturday.”

Culled from Mirror UK