Mourinho ‘feeling isolated’ as fears grow of summer exit

FEARS are growing at Stamford Bridge that boss Jose Mourinho will leave Chelsea this summer.

Saturday’s 6-1 FA Cup third round victory over Macclesfield kept the Premiership champions in the running for an unprecedented quadruple, but officials are already bracing themselves for life without Mourinho amid claims that his relationship with owner Roman Abramovich and chief executive Peter Kenyon is deteriorating by the week.

Several reports yesterday claimed the Premiership champions have already moved on a successor, with Guus Hiddink, who Abramovich installed as Russia manager last summer, the favourite to succeed Mourinho.