Jose Mourinho has thanked Chelsea fans for chanting his name in recent games.

Fans have sung Mourinho's name as Chelsea have continued to struggle in the Premier League.

Mourinho told Fabrizio Romano: “The first feeling is I always say that the best thing football has is the fans.

“Because the fans don't make money with football – they spend money with football! Sometimes they spend money that the family needs and they make sacrifices because of the passion for football and especially for the passion for their clubs.

“So normally they are fair. When the club's fans don't like the players, don't like the coach, for some reason, it's not because beautiful eyes, it's not because handsome guy. They love it, or they don't love it, for some reason.

“In my case, independent of results – of course I had the luck always to have something to celebrate, something for the fans to have a good memory of me – but I think something that they see is when you are committed to them."