Rafa Benitez has admitted he cannot be sure he will see out the season as Chelsea's interim manager.
Spaniard Benitez watched them surrender a first-half lead to lose 3-1 at London rivals West Ham yesterday.
Chelsea fans sang "you're getting sacked in the morning", and "you don't know what you're doing" at Benitez.
Even after their team had gone ahead, the Blues supporters chanted sacked manager Roberto Di Matteo's name.
Benitez has a contract until the end of the season. But there are already suggestions owner Roman Abramovich could turn to former boss Avram Grant to hold the fort if things do not improve.
The Russian billionaire has employed 10 managers in his nine and a half years at the club and sacked seven of them.
Abramovich will not be impressed with Benitez's start, having presided over Chelsea's two goalless draws and this defeat, and the former Liverpool boss is aware results must quickly improve.
This is the first time since February 1995 that Chelsea have failed to win for seven League matches and Benitez has become the first manager since Gianluca Vialli to not win any of his opening three matches as manager.
Asked if he could be 100 per cent sure he will ride out the early storm, Benitez replied: "No I am not 100 per cent. But we didn't win and if we had won the game we would be happy."
Juan Mata had given Chelsea the lead in a first-half they dominated but West Ham hit back with goals from Carlton Cole and substitutes Mohamed Diame and Modibo Maiga.
West Ham boss Sam Allardyce had no sympathy for Benitez – with whom he has been at loggerheads in the past – and claimed he faces an impossible job unless he gets the fans on side.
"You can't manage a club if the fans are not behind you, no," said Allardyce. "The only way you get the fans behind you is to win. You have to win. If you're winning games of football, the fans will always be behind you.
"As managers, we don't have sympathy for each other. We compete against each other, we toil against each other, play mind games against each other. In the end, we came out on top today."
Benitez agreed the only way he can win around the Chelsea fans who booed and chanted against him is to start winning games.
"We have to improve on the pitch and the fans will be happy," said Benitez. "We have experienced players who have played at this level for a while, so they know they have to manage.
"My concern is improving the team. That is the main thing for me. If we do that and start winning games, we'll be able to turn things around.
"We need to win – it's simple. In the first half, we deserved to score more goals. In the second half, we had one or two chances, but we didn't do enough.
"It was totally different in the second half. We didn't start well, they were on top of us and we couldn't manage. West Ham's first goal was controversial and made a difference, but we gave the ball away easily and we weren't comfortable in possession.
"It's difficult to explain how we were so good in the first half and yet couldn't manage in the second.
"Physically, it's easier to control a game if you are two or three up, but we couldn't achieve that. We have to improve."
West Ham were dealt a blow ahead of yesterday's kick-off with the news on-loan striker Andy Carroll has been ruled out for up to eight weeks with the knee injury he suffered against Manchester United.
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