It is certain that Brian Kerr will not have his contract renewed when the Football Association of Ireland meet next week to review the failure to reach the 2006 World Cup. With no fixtures planned until March - the FAI are unlikely to take up the option of a friendly in November - there is no rush to appoint a successor. The Republic of Ireland may not appoint a new manager until next year in the hope that they can persuade Sir Alex Ferguson to take over with Roy Keane as his assistant. However, should Chelsea avoid defeat today - and extend their unbeaten run in the Premiership to 38 games, the equivalent to a full season - there will be few willing to bet against them.. I want all my players to be successful and play for their countries and win competitions."Those bookmakers who have already paid out on bets on Chelsea to win the Premiership "do not understand football", Mourinho said, although he conceded that they might know something about self-promotion.
We have worked together enough for them to know me well," he said. "And when I have just a little, very little, feeling they are not thinking about Chelsea they know they have a problem because they are not playing for Chelsea They know me They know me so I don't have this kind of fear I'd love to have 11 [players in the national team] You always want to get the best from your players. Without Duff today, and Hernan Crespo only returning yesterday afternoon from his international duty with Argentina in Uruguay, Mourinho will pick Carlton Cole on the bench for the first time this season.Frank Lampard, Terry, Wright-Phillips and Cole will all be central characters in Eriksson's production next summer but Mourinho warned his players that any suggestion they were saving themselves for next summer's World Cup would be heavily punished by their manager."The players know me well. It is vital that people learn not to go out and mix with others if they have any illness that makes them feel weak, hot and cold. This it is the most efficient way of reducing the prevalence of a virus. The only real argument against "social distancing" (the modern term for isolation, the time-honoured way of responding to epidemics) is that bosses assume that an ill employee is a malingerer until proven otherwise. But when the World Cup is finished they will say, 'We need a new team for the next World Cup'."The Chelsea manager emerged from a self-imposed media ban that has lasted about four weeks to insist that William Gallas would not be sold by the club in January and that the French international has assured him that he did not wish to leave. Then look at Portugal, France, England, almost every team especially in Europe.
They have the same team they had in Euro 2004; they change one of the names but the players are very similar. "I think it will be a World Cup where it will be very difficult to spot a team much better than all the others. I don't see a team as good as France when they won the World Cup I see teams on the same level. I think the difference is not about the quality of the team, it's about the future after the World Cup."You look at Germany and the Netherlands - when this World Cup is finished they have a team for the next World Cup. Mourinho identified the England team as one of those in the tournament which will face significant change in its personnel once the summer is over "I think England can [win the World Cup]," Mourinho said. Yet despite the uncertainty that surrounds England's prospects in Germany next summer, the Chelsea manager said yesterday that he still believes Sven Goran Eriksson's side can win the tournament. After 10 days away from most of his squad, Mourinho was in a charitable mood about the chances of an England national team that included four of his players in the starting line-up that faced Poland on Wednesday - a match that finished with John Terry as captain.
