So, here we go again. Chelsea have lost a few matches and suddenly they need a new manager. Welcome to Stamford Bridge AVB.

Andre Villas-Boas may have only been in the job for 12 league games, yet already you get the feeling that time is not on his side.

Hiistory suggests a few more disappointments before Christmas and failure to qualify for the Champions League knockout stages, which is a possibility, and owner Roman Abramovich’s notoriously low patience levels will run out.

And that’s despite the 34-year-old, who arrived in the summer from Porto, confidently declaring that he doesn’t expect to get the sack. Funny, Jose Mourinho, Avram Grant, Luiz Felipe Scolari and Carlo Ancelotti didn’t either.

Yesterday’s 2-1 defeat on their own patch to Liverpool followed that stunning 5-3 loss at home to Arsenal.

Stamford Bridge, once a fortress and a place rarely breached, now has a big welcome mat on it.

Come on in, it says, if you have any quality at all you’ll score goals here.

John Terry looks slower by the week, though he’s not the main problem. That’s his centre-back partner David Luiz.

Whoever labelled him a defender could be done under the Trades Description Act! Villas-Boas should put him up front.

He would do more damage there — and less to his own team — than Didier Drogba did to Liverpool yesterday. Drogba was as ineffective as he was at Loftus Road earlier this season and he was sent off there.

I know £50 million man Fernando Torres looks to be worth 50 quid these days, but surely given Drogba’s desperate display the Spaniard merited more game time than six minutes from the bench against his old club.

Villas-Boas has made mistakes this season with selections, though warrants some sympathy because he is still finding his way at a new club, which since Mourinho left still has the shadow of the Special One hanging over it. Even Ancelotti winning the double in his first season couldn’t shift it.

Chelsea are 12 points behind league leaders Manchester City.

They have no chance of title glory.

Unless AVB sort sorts out his defence, gets Drogba and Torres firing and improves results, he has no chance of staying at Stmaford Bridge.