Jose Mourinho almost never speaks to his players immediately after games, but once his side had been beaten 1-0 by Bournemouth at Stamford Bridge to put him on the brink of the sack, he felt he had to. It was a situation that summed up just how bad things had got for Mourinho; another illustration that he just didn't know what to do next. He was exasperated.

"Are you trying to kill me?" the now ex-Chelsea manager asked his players. He was met with silence, but that spoke volumes about everything that has gone wrong.

Then again, current Manchester City chief executive Ferran Soriano has previously said it all about Mourinho's entire career. Soriano was a director at Barcelona before City, and a few years ago, he spoke about why the Catalan club had taken the fateful decision in 2008 to reject the Portuguese for Pep Guardiola. "Mourinho is a winner," Soriano began. "But in order to win, he generates a level of tension that becomes a problem."

It was a problem that, in the words of one source close to the Chelsea dressing room, became "unfixable" at Stamford Bridge. It is genuinely remarkable just how much Soriano's 19-word quote nails Mourinho's 15-year managerial career so far, particularly this final spell at Chelsea. The intensity he generated helped the side seal the 2014-15 title, but it also played a huge part in what now must go down as one of the most spectacular collapses in football history.