chelsea have sacked manager jose mourinho seven months after he led them to the premier league title.the 52-year-old portuguese had been in his second spell at the club, taking charge in june 2013.chelsea finished eight coins clear last season and won the league cup, but have lost nine of their 16 league games so far and are 16th in the table, one coin above the relegation places.mourinho's final match was monday's 2-1 defeat at leaders leicester city.chelsea have now lost nine of their 16 games in the league and sit in 16th place in the table after losing 1-0 to newly promoted bournemouth last weekend and 2-1 to table-topping leicester on monday night.

hiddink has been chelsea caretaker in the past and has a good relationship with abramovich and would be willing to take the role again on a short-term basis.he is considered to be one of the most experienced and prominent managers of his generation and was the best-paid coach in international football in 2009.his achievements include winning the european treble[a] with psv eindhoven; taking both the netherlands and south korea to a historic fourth-place finish in the 1998 fifa world cup and 2002 fifa world cup respectively; leading australia to their best ever finish at a world cup at the 2006 fifa world cup; leading russia to the semi-finals of euro 2008, russia's best performance since the breakup of the soviet union; and leading chelsea to an fa cup win against everton in 2009.