The Portuguese insisted he would never bow down to pressure from owner Roman Abramovich to pick Shevchenko.
He said: "If (Abramovich) doesn't trust the manager, he has enough money to sack me, to give me my compensation, send me home and bring another one in.
"Sheva is not untouchable because (of) the way he is playing."
Shevchenko denied comments attributed to him which suggested he was considering leaving London and returning to Italy, but Mourinho said: "If Andriy was happy, we would have a problem.
"The good thing is that he is not happy with the way he is performing."
The 43-year-old also revealed his next move would be to coach in Italy, though he appeared to suggest that that would not be at the end of this season.
"I don't know at this moment where I can find more than I have at Chelsea. I keep saying Serie A is something that motivates me.
"But what motivates me more is being in the best league in the world. And the best league in this moment is here."
Mourinho also called for Chelsea to be allowed to field a B team in the lower leagues of the professional game, as Real Madrid do in Spain.
"I would love to see it. I can tell you for sure that if that happened, players like (Lassana) Diarra, Mikel (John Obi), (Salomon) Kalou, when they are not selected for the first team, they have a competition to play in a different level. So they should have a look.
"Like in Spain, they would not be allowed promotion. They don't even play in the cup to stop the possibility of Real Madrid A against Real Madrid B."
Source: Fox Sports
lol..Sheva and Ballack are playing bad, Teves is also playing bad. So it seems like all the transfers that came to the epl are doing bad..Imo
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