Is Jose’s love affair with Blues on the rocks?

JOSE MOURINHO will not be at Stamford Bridge tonight when Chelsea meet Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-finals.

The cracks in the Chelsea manager’s relationship with the club hierarchy were confirmed yesterday by his assistant Baltemar Brito who also revealed the banned coach will watch the first leg “away from the stadium.”

Brito revealed Mourinho, given a two-game touchline ban by UEFA for bringing the game into disrepute for controversial comments he made during and after the previous Champions League clash with Barcelona, will watch the game in a “private place” on television and there will be no contact with the bench via mobile phone or other forms of communication.