Well deserved! Mourinho and Hazard claim Premier League Award

Mourinho and his back room staff

Jose Mourinho and Eden Hazard have been named Barclays Premier League Manager of the Year and Barclays Premier League Player of the Year respectively.

The Portuguese previously won the accolade in 2004/05 and 2005/06 when Chelsea were also the champions.

Eden Hazard

PFA Player of the Year, Football Writers’ Association Footballer of the Year and now Barclays Premier League Player of the Year.

Fabregas joined Chelsea to win trophies says Mourinho

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho believes Cesc Fabregas opted to join the Blues ahead of Arsenal because he needed to crown his effort with trophies.

The Spanish midfielder joined Chelsea a year ago from Barcelona and would be playing against his former side for the first time since returning to the Premier League.

''I know why he chose Chelsea,'' Mourinho said. ''I don't know why he didn't choose Arsenal. I only know what we promised him and what he promised us. 

''I can't talk about why he left Arsenal, why he didn't go back. I don't know if it was his decision or the manager's decision. We promised him a team built in the style to suit his play. 

''Normally good projects go in hand with titles and he was looking for that.''

On whether the former Arsenal skipper would receive a warm welcome from the fans at the Emirates, Mourinho said: ''I'm not worried about that. Frank Lampard played at Stamford Bridge without any problem and with a good reception.

''I don't see a reason for Fabregas not to have the same at the Emirates. But he is more than ready if he has a bad reaction. He played at Barcelona in an Arsenal shirt.''

After 12 meetings, Jose Mourinho has not lost against Arsene Wenger's tutored side but Sundays affair promises to be a cracker.

Wenger insists his focus is on the game against Chelsea not ''Jose Mourinho''

It is no news that Arsenal Manager has not beaten Mourinho after 12 meetings, but the French man has played down the significance of clashing with the Chelsea manager when both sides clash this weekend in the Premier League.

Arsenal host Chelsea at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday but the Gunners boss does not want to be drawn into managerial rivalry between himself and the Portuguese.

''It is not a confrontation (between managers), it is a confrontation of two teams,'' - he said.

''Football is down to the fact that the performance on the day will decide the game and the result, so let’s focus on that.''

Mourinho's Blues defeated Arsenal 2-0 at Stamford Bridge last October but the Gunners recent form can see them to getting a favourable result at the weekend.

Sunday's Capital One Cup Final is a must win for Chelsea - Quotes from Jose Mourinho

Cheslsea Football club have a date to keep with Tottenham Hotspur in the Capital One Cup final on Sunday and the Blues manager has told his players that losing is not an option.

''It is a final we have to play and a final we have to win,'' he told reporters.

''This is the only moment since I arrived in July 2013 that I don’t think about the future of this club,'' Mourinho added. ''I just think about the moment, I just think about this game.

''We have a final to win on Sunday and nothing else matters.''

Mourinho also expressed his hope, that his team will continue to fight for more trophies in future.

He said: ''Chelsea cannot win everything and cannot win every season,'' he said. “If you want to do that we have to change country to where the competition is not so hard.

''Chelsea, in the last 10 years, won just the League Cup twice but was many times at Wembley and won FA Cups, won Premier Leagues and the European Cup.

''We try to build with this new generation of players and try to make Wembley something normal for us and try to go there year after year.''

Mourinho at Wenger again! The Chelsea manager thinks Arsenal should be on top

Mourinho is at it again! The Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho, has taken a swipe at Arsene Wenger, claiming Arsenal should be contesting for the Premier League title.

The Gunners are currently 12 points behind the Blues with 12 matches left and sit in third place. Mourinho stated that with the quality of their squad, they should be among the front runners.

"Arsenal? I don't understand why they are not where we are, with Manchester City, because I like their team. I think they have very good players. Alexis, Welbeck... important players added to an already very good squad. I think they are a team for more.

"At this moment Wenger has a dream job that we would all love to have. He has the stability and has the time to buy and sell and wait for success... and wait, and wait... I think he has the dream job.What he did to get so many titles in a certain period gives him the credibility that he deserves. Obviously he is a fantastic manager but he's in a fantastic position to be successful. When I look at the players, I really think they have to win."

Ronaldo, Mourinho are Portugal's best of all Time

Google Image: Cristiano Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo beat both Luis Figo and Eusebio to be named as the best player Portugal has ever produced, in the Gala Quinas de Ouro ceremony, part of the commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the Portuguese Football Federation.

The Real Madrid star could not make the event as his club had a date to keep with city rivals Atletico Madrid in the Copa Del Rey on Thursday night.

Google Image: Jose Mourinho the special one

Meanwhile Jose Mourinho was also announced as the best coach of the century following his success with FC Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid.

Mourinho hails Drogba, says Ivorian will remain at Chelsea after playing career

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has lauded Ivorian striker Didier Drogba for his impressive display in the Blues 3-0 win over Tottenham on Wednesday night.

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The Ivorian headed the attack in the absence of Diego Costa and was quick to grab the Blues second goal after Hazard had put them ahead.

Mourinho insists he was never bothered about Costa’s absence, as Drogba has all it takes to step in and do the job.

''Did you remember Diego Costa today? I didn’t,'' he said.

''We need Diego Costa but our mentality is the right mentality. You don’t cry about it. You give responsibility to the others and they respond in the best way.''

The Chelsea manager also admitted that Drogba’s qualities, means that after his playing career, he will have a role at Stamford Bridge.

So Mourinho can complain about Sunderland's tactics against his Chelsea?

Jose Mourinho on Sunderland: ''Only one team tried to win from the beginning, the other team didn’t. They defended a lot and they defended well. Defending a lot and well is not a crime. It is a strategy and it was successful for them.''

The Bus manager himself complaining. Funny!

Be of good cheer Schalke, you lost to a ''very good Chelsea team'' - says Mourinho

Google Image: Jose Mourinho

Chelsea Manager Jose Mourinho has sent out an encouraging message to Schalke after his team bashed the Germans 5-0 in a UCL game on Tuesday night.

The Germans went down five nil at the comfort zone yet Mourinho feels the team should take solace in the fact that they lost to a ''very good Chelsea team''.

''I think we should have scored even more,'' – said the Chelsea manager in a post match interview as quoted by the league body's website.

''Obviously Schalke must be very sad with the result, the only comfort they can take is that they lost against a very good Chelsea team.''

Mourinho further hailed his side for the impressive performance terming the result as abnormal.

''To win 5-0 away in the Champions League is not normal. To win 5-0 in Germany is even more not normal. 

''The performance was complete. It was very impressive.''


My Take: That's MOU for you after an emphatic victory, lol

Cech considering Chelsea exit if Mourinho continues to use him as number two

Chelsea shot stopper Petr Cech as reported by Guardian UK, has hinted that he might just walk out of the club if he continues to be a substitute.

Cech, who has been at Stamford Bridge since 2004 has not been a starting choice since the start of a new Premier League season owing to Thibaut Courtois' presence since his return from a loan spell at Atlético Madrid.

“I have not spoken to anyone, but I think they know me well enough at the club to know that the situation is definitely not the way I would imagine,” the goalkeeper told Czech radio while on international
duty.

“With the Euros (in 2016) and the national team in mind, there is no time for me to sit on the bench and not to play. If the situation will not start to improve for me, then I will want to solve it.“

Cech is set to start for the Czech Republic against Turkey in a European Championship qualifier on Friday.

Diego Costa to lead Chelsea attack against Sporting - Mourinho

Jose Mourinho has made it clear that Diego Costa will be the man to lead the attack when Chelsea confront Sporting in the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday in Portugal.

According to Dailymail UK, The Blues boss confirmed that he prefers to start with the eight-goal striker after ahead of Loic Remy after leaving Didier Drogba behind due to an ankle injury.

''In this moment, if Diego can play, I play Diego,'' said MOU. ''The team had a pre-season with him. The team worked with him a lot of times. He's playing with us every match in the Premier League. So the team at this moment is more made to play with Diego.

''I think Remy is learning how to play with us. His pace is good, his movement is good, he can get behind defenders, he's not bad in the air. He has some similarities with Diego and if he has to play, no problem. But I prefer to play Diego.

''There is a risk, yes. But we assume the risk and he plays. I don't rest people. I make decisions. I don't think about Arsenal on Sunday. I think about Sporting. I'm going to start with the team I think is the best team.''

For the Special One, Sporting was where it all started for him in the early 90's.

Everton 3-6 Chelsea: Mourinho worried by defensive mistakes

Despite winning 6-3 against Everton in a premier league game on Saturday, Manager Jose Mourinho is worried about his side's defensive ability.

 

He told newsmen after the nine-goal thriller at the Gudison park that all didn't go according to plan but yet extremely satisfied with the way his side attacked and got goals.

 

''We made defensive mistakes. I don’t want to speak for Everton and Roberto [Martinez] but my team made defensive mistakes. I just said on Chelsea TV before I came down that it’s difficult to believe on Wednesday afternoon we trained for one-and-a-half hours and we did only two things: defensive corners and defensive lateral free-kicks.

 

''Imagine how happy I am with the result of our work! It would have been better to give them Wednesday off and stay at home with my wife and kids!

 

''When the opponent scores against us I want it to be because they were brilliant or because they did something that was difficult to control. We made four defensive mistakes: for the three goals, despite them being great finishes, and when Courtois made a fantastic save with the result at 4-3.''

Mourinho wants Torres to stay at Chelsea

Despite several reports linking Chelsea striker Fernando Torres to clubs, manager Jose Mourinho said he is part of his plans for the season.

Speaking ahead of Everton clash billed for Saturday, the Portuguese said "What we have clear is that we need three strikers to face the season, he is one of them''

"I like him as a person. I like him as a player. If he wants to leave it is something he didn't say to me. At the moment he is our player, nothing more than that.

''If he wants to leave I believe it is because he wants to try a new life, a new club, a new league. If he wants to leave I believe it is to try and be happier than he was in the last couple of years.

''This is a very human club in the way it tries to approach these situations. If he comes to us then any possibility will be analysed.''

Mourinho commends Chelsea composure

Chelsea manager  Jose Mourinho has commended his side for their composure after coming back from a goal down to beat newly promoted side Burnley in their opening premier league match on Monday night.

The Blues conceded in the 14th minute as Scott Arfield fired home but MOU's men maintained their calm as they pulled on back through new signing Diego Costa within 20mins of trailing.

Andre Schurrle was perfect as he converted the mildest touch of Fabregas so also did Branislav Ivanovic all in half time to give the team a flying start into the season.

According to MOU in a post match interview: ''I think we had a good reaction, and the first part of that reaction is the fact that emotionally we were not affected by the goal conceded,'' the Portuguese tactician said.

''We conceded the goal and kept playing according to the way we are training and to the way we want to play.

''The players were very calm.

''They never lost their composure, they never lost the footballing idea, and after that we had a fantastic 20-25 minutes with three goals – especially the second one was a fantastic goal, plus the penalty that the linesman decided not to give – and in the second half we had control of the game.''

Mourinho changes gear, says second place finish would be enough

Despite spending over £70m to beef up the Chelsea squad for the new Premier League season, Jose Mourinho has admitted that the league is very competitive and feels a place behind the first would be a pleasure.

+Chelsea Football Club /Mourinho

As reported by Dailymail sports, Mourinho said ‘It’s the only league in the world where four, five or six clubs are title contenders. Only one can win. Do the other five fail? I don’t think so.

''One view is that one succeeded and five failed. Another view is that three, four or five did fantastically but only one won.''

Chelsea would be away at Burnley on Monday and Mourinho added: ‘I can do nothing more than say: ''We feel we are title contenders.'' The only thing I can add is that probably, if you ask every manager in the Premier League are you a title contender, probably four, five or six will tell you, ''Yes.'' 

Come to think of it, this same Mourinho labelled Arsenal manager, Wenger ''specialist in failure'', does this mean he has changed his mind to play second fiddle or playing mind game?

MOU: - ''If the team finishing first is better than us — if we are very good but somebody is better than us — that’s football. That’s not a failure. The only thing you can do is be good.

''We have to be good, we have to better than last season as a team, the quality of our game, in everything we have to be better.

''We have to fight for the title and after that if somebody is really better than us, it’s because they were fantastic.''

Home sweet Home! Drogba is back to Chelsea

He needs no introduction. The 36-year old Ivorian striker Didier Drogba has made a return to Chelsea and will be at the Bridge for the next one year.

Obviously, the manager of the side is pleased to have the dependable attacker once again.

Mourinho - ''He’s coming because he’s one of the best strikers in Europe. I know his personality very well and I know if he comes back he’s not protected by history or what he’s done for this club previously. He is coming with the mentality to make more history.''

Drogba - ''It was an easy decision - I couldn't turn down the opportunity to work with Jose again.  Everyone knows the special relationship I have with this club and it has always felt like home to me.

''My desire to win is still the same and I look forward to the opportunity to help this team. I am excited for this next chapter of my career.''

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Mourinho dreams big, claims Chelsea want to dominate the Premier League for the next decade

Manager of Chelsea football club Jose Mourinho has been looking ahead to the coming season and, in particular, the two major competitions.

Speaking in a conference room at the team's hotel in Velden, Austria, the Portuguese talked about his hopes for our Premier League and Champions League campaigns acknowledging the competitive nature of the top flight in England, but said he is confident his side can wrestle the title from Manchester City’s grasp.

‘If I didn’t think that way I would go home and let somebody else take charge of the team,’ said the Chelsea manager. ‘People can speak about other leagues but England is the only country where five or six teams can win the title. Football is about competitiveness every weekend and that only happens in the Premier League.

‘When you have the two Manchester clubs, the three clubs from London – Tottenham, Arsenal and ourselves – plus Liverpool, that’s six top teams, where all of them can win the title. That’s why everybody loves the Premier League.

‘At Chelsea, if we didn’t think we could win the league, or didn’t think we had the quality to do it, we wouldn’t be here working so hard. We respect our opponents and their ambitions, because they have the same ambitions as us, but we want to win the Premier League and we are ready for that.’

Last season’s Champions League campaign ultimately ended in disappointment when we were beaten at the semi-final stage by Atletico Madrid.

The Blues boss, however, believes our run to the last four will serve us well this time around.

‘Last year we reached the semi-finals and it was a transitional season,’ he said. ‘A team which has been a winning team for ten seasons is changing step by step, we’ve bought new players and we are trying to build for the next decade. We had a very young team at the time but, even so, we reached the semi-finals and were playing to win the competition.

‘This season we think we are going to be stronger, the younger players are more experienced, they are stable and better adapted to fighting for titles. You look around, to Spain, Germany and elsewhere in England, teams are getting stronger, spending big amounts of money and trying to sign the best possible players.

‘We will go to the Champions League group stage with one objective: to qualify. When you reach the last 16 let’s see what happens.’

Mikel, Moses not listed for Chelsea's Austria Pre-season Tour

The duo of John Obi MIkel and Victor Moses were not among Mourinho’s 26-man squad which arrived in Austria earlier today for the start of our two-week European training camp.

Where exactly will these two Nigerians be heading since they are not in the plans of the Special one for the tour? Anyway....

Holidays after the world cup is responsible for their exemption which also include the likes of Oscar who featured for Brazil.

Chelseafc.com reports that the three new signings (Cesc Fabregas, Diego Costa and Filipe Luis) joined up with their team-mates for the first time, and they were joined by Cesar Azpilicueta and Gary Cahill, who returned to the group following their post-World Cup break.

The squad touched down early in the afternoon before heading to their hotel. They will train at Waldarena, Velden this evening, with a double session scheduled for tomorrow.

On Wednesday, the team will face RZ Pellen, then NK Olimpija Ljubljana in Slovenia on Sunday, before matches against Vitesse Arnhem and Werder Bremen, in the Netherlands and Germany respectively.

Travelling squad in full:

Petr Cech
Matej Delac       
Mitchell Beeney
Mark Schwarzer              
Branislav Ivanovic           
Oriol Romeu      
Kurt Zouma
Andreas Christensen     
John Terry          
Gary Cahill
Nathan Ake       
Cesar Azpilicueta             
Marco van Ginkel            
Nemanja Matic
Nathaniel Chalobah       
Mohamed Salah
Jeremie Boga    
Lewis Baker       
John Swift          
Cesc Fabregas
Patrick Bamford               
Fernando Torres
Diego Costa
Dominic Solanke              
Filipe Luis            
Isaiah Brown

Mourinho looks forward to playing Van Gaal's United

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has revealed that he looks forward to playing against new Manchester United handler, Louis Van Gaal.

The pair worked together for three years at Barcelona but will go head-to-head this season, with Van Gaal having taken the reins at Old Trafford following a successful World Cup with Holland.

Mourinho told Mail on Sunday "I'm not worried about him being here. I look forward to playing against United. Nothing worries me.

"I watched him at his press conference and he was pure Van Gaal - honest and open, the way he always is.
 
"He is a very, very good coach, he'll be great for Manchester United.

"We are both great coaches. It's what we were born to do.

"Louis was the best coach in the World Cup and he is a good friend - really, a friend for life. I have deep respect for this man.

"He is in the best period of his career. With coaching, if you deal with winning and losing in the right way, you improve. He analyses every experience. He has got better and better."



Mourinho - whose Inter Milan side beat Van Gaal's Bayern in the 2010 Champions League final - and Chelsea will be among the main rivals standing in his way.


Van Gaal begins his Premier League career against Swansea on August 16, two days before Chelsea open their campaign against promoted Burnley.

Chelsea, Athletico Madrid agree on Luis

In a bid to replace Ashley Cole who has joined Roma, Jose Mourinho's Chelsea FC has turned to Athletico Madrid left back Felipe Luis and reports say that both clubs have come to an agreement.

According to the London club's website, "Chelsea Football Club can confirm an agreement has been reached with Atletico Madrid for the transfer of Filipe Luis."

"The move is subject to the 28-year-old left-back agreeing personal terms."

This move comes after Spanish striker Diego Costa and compatriot Cesc Fabregas joined Chelsea.