The vultures appear to be circling Andre Villas-Boas at the moment.
Terrible performances on the pitch, seeminly bizzare team choices, wierd tactics and an admission that he has got things wrong.
IT does not bode well for the coach who is only half-way through his first year in charge of the Blues.
If that wasn’t so bad, up pops Roman Abramovich to talk things through with him, not once, not twice, but we are led to believe three times in six days, the last of which was Sunday.
Word from a Chelsea insider is that Villas-Boas has two matches to put things right.
First up is Birmingham City in the lunchtime kick-off on Saturday in the FA Cup.
That match at Stamford Bridge is quickly followed four days later with a Champions League match in Naples. Defeat in both, and the word within the corridors of SW6 and Cobham is that Villas-Boas is history.
The fact that certain players apparently criticised Villas-Boas’s tactics as being too full of jargon to Abramovich on Sunday has not helped his course.
Villas-Boas blamed his own pre-planning for the debacle at Everton on Saturday and is under notice to get it right this week.