Diego Costa and mouriho :like manager like player, agreed?

OCTOBER 8, 2015
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Diego Costa has lashed out at Jose Mourinho’s
critics and accused them of revelling in the
Chelsea manager’s crises.
Spain striker Costa also maintained the ailing
Blues' players are ready to stage a fightback
after their worst-ever league start in the Roman
Abramovich era.
Ex-England boss Fabio Capello and Dutch legend
Johan Cruyff have both stuck the boot in on
Mourinho this week, with his defending
champions sitting just 16th in the table after
losing half of their first eight matches.
Yet Costa hit back at them both - and at
suggestions the Special One has lost the
dressing room.
He said: “When things don’t go the way that
everyone expects, people - the supporters as
well - always look for someone to blame.
“In some cases, they blame the players. In this
case they blame the manager, maybe because
the manager is Mourinho. I have been here for
more than a season, I have seen sides that have
lost much more games than Chelsea, and no one
criticises their managers.
“There’s no doubt it’s because of the way he is.
He’s very direct, very straightforward.

"He always speaks what he thinks and what he
believes to be the truth. Sometimes it’s not what
people want to hear. It’s the way he is and it’s
why sometimes they criticise him.
“There are managers who always say what
people want to hear. I think that’s not good. I’d
rather have someone who tells me straight up
what happens rather than sweet things that I
want to hear.”
Despite just two league wins so far this season,
billionaire owner Abramovich took the
unprecedented step of sanctioning public backing
for the Special One on Monday.
Costa revealed the shambolic start to the club’s
title defence was not because of Mourinho but
the players’ complacency - starting with his own.
He said: “We came back from holiday very
confident. We thought we could go back into the
way it was last season. Then, by the time we
actually realised the situation we were in, the
team was already in a bad position.
“So all we can do now is train very hard and
work very hard. Try to get back to that level
where we were the season before.”
No Premier League team has made it into the
top four after picking up just eight points from
their first eight games as Chelsea have