Chelsea player speaks about their coach Jose Mourinho

Chelsea midfielder Ramires has insisted the club’s players still “trust” Jose Mourinho after claims that the Special One has lost the dressing room.

Champions Chelsea are languishing in 16th place in the Premier League after just two wins and four defeats from their eight games so far.

Mourinho is now the bookies’ favourite for the chop but has had public backing, sanctioned by Roman Abramovich, from the club this week.

The Special One claimed after last Saturday’s shock surrender, at home to Southampton, that he would only go if the players turned against him.

But Ramires said: “We’ve not lost a bit of trust in Jose. Everyone trusts him. We think he is the best manager for us.

“Obviously when things don’t go the way that everyone expects a lot of questions are asked. But we still trust him.

“I understand perfectly where he is coming from with what he said regarding where, if he didn’t have the confidence of the players he would step aside. But that’s not the case at all. We are all together.

“Maybe it’s a shared guilt because when things don’t got the way that everyone expects people look at the players and the manager. But we are all working together to get out of this situation - we want to be at the top of the table. Not the bottom.”

Questions have been asked of Mourinho’s management of the players with some said to be unhappy at being called out in front of their team-mates.

But Ramires added: “I think it very normal when we are not playing well and we are losing for the manager to take it out on the players. He needs to get a reaction.

“Maybe some players are not doing what he expects them to do so that’s why he is on top of us, on top of things, trying to get a reaction because he knows he can get the best out of us.

“So we all need to calm down and we can get out of this.

"Obviously when you lose a few games in a row the confidence level goes a bit low. We’ve not had the chance to win a few games in a row and get back that confidence.

“As far as the mood is concerned, it is fine.

"We are training and working hard. We are doing the best we can to get out of this situation that we have put ourselves in. We have not produced good performances but we are working on it.”