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Maybe if they offer us £30m, Rooney and Jones we will sit down and discuss it with them. But in all seriousness, Mourinho will put a stop to this nonsense. Jose is a class act, a rebel, He stands up to bullies.

Never ever ever ever been so excited for a friendly before. Get to see De Bruyne, Schurrle, Van Ginkle all in a Chelsea shirt, and Mourinho back on the touch line. Also looking forward to see what Wallace can offer us in the right back position. Chaloabh in the second half too! Then Champions League later, what a day!

We don't have to play with just one. I'd imagine we'll play with Mata as behind the striker, and another one, either on the wing of as a deep lying playmaker.

No, but bringing us to our first Premiership in 50 years, multiple cup winnings, Dominating the league two years in a row, Not losing a home game in the League was a joy. Mourinho is jealous of nothing Benitez did. Mourinho is twice or three times the manager Benitez ever will be. Winning the Europa League wasn't a major achievement for the club, because we didn't want to be in it in the first place. Also, we got knocked out of TWO European Semi Finals under Jose, hardly repeatedly, and if we only win the Europa League game, just as Jose stated, it will be a big disappointment, a disappointment that we were in it again.

Hillsborough was entirely Liverpool fans fault. If they didn't get drunk and all pour behind the goals in Sheffield it wouldn't have happened.

Any doubts José Mourinho may have harboured over the condition of Chelsea's old guard have been allayed in his first week back with the squad after the manager claimed the more seasoned campaigners had been "training like animals" since returning to work. Mourinho will oversee the first game of his second spell in charge of Chelsea on Wednesday, against a Singha All Star XI, with John Terry, Petr Cech, Michael Essien, Frank Lampard and Ashley Cole all to start at the Rajamangala national stadium. The quintet featured under his stewardship last time around and, while the manager has already backed Chelsea's young talent to thrive over the season ahead, he will lean on familiar figures to inspire a title challenge. Terry, who has entered the final year of his contract at Stamford Bridge, had stayed behind to practise after training the night before at the International School of Bangkok and was the first out-field player on to the turf at the national arena. "The good thing with my previous players is that what I see makes me very happy," Mourinho said. "I don't see them any different to before. And when I see Terry, Cole, Lampard, the way they are working at 32, 32, 35, it's easy for me to control the group and demand the same from the other guys. I can say: 'Look at them: they don't miss one minute; they are training like animals; they compete. So you, who are 18, 19, 21, don't tell me you can't do it.' "It's fantastic. I'm very happy. They know me. They know that I'm not going to make their lives easy but that I am going to give them something back. And, because they know me, from the first day they never questioned that situation and just worked hard. It's good for me because they are ready, all of them. The group is good and the other six boys (who have been given more time off after the Confederations Cup) will find something good when they come. They will feel it, what we are doing here. When the Matas, Oscars and Luizs come back they will smell immediately that we are doing something. It will be easy for them to come in." Training was conducted in front of around 4,000 supporters on Tuesday – the game has been sold out at around 48,000, with tickets priced up to £64 – with Mourinho's upbeat mood reflecting the optimism that has enveloped this club. "My wife was right," he said when asked if he felt revitalised to be back in charge after his last tempestuous months at Real Madrid. "She doesn't talk about football, but she told me a few times in Madrid that I needed to be happy to be able to give my best. I needed to be happy to be motivated, to spend my time organising training sessions and enjoying the sessions, to enjoy being with the players outside the training sessions – and I'm having all of this here." Mourinho remains in the market for a striker and would ideally like to secure the recruit well before Chelsea's start to the Premier League season on 18 August. Yet any signing would apparently not jeopardise Fernando Torres' standing with the manager reluctant to part with any of his senior squad. "First of all I don't want the club to sell," he said. "We are very much on board and connected, me and the board and the owner, and we don't need to sell players. We are happy with the group we have. We are not on this market pressure. If something happens it will happen naturally but we are in a position where we are not worried." He intends to tweak his favoured 4-3-3 formation for particular matches, occasionally using two defensive-minded deep-lying midfielders while retaining the flexibility to be more expansive. Juan Mata – who is still on leave along with Torres, César Azpilicueta, Mikel John Obi, David Luiz and Oscar – could operate as a playmaker or even be utilised on the right of an attacking three behind a forward, though the manager admitted he needed "to get to know him better". "We will play 4-2-3-1 in the first game, my favourite system, though sometimes I change the triangle and play with one in front of the defenders and two players up," Mourinho said. "Other times I play with double midfielders and a No10. This is a team where we have not one or two but three or four players who like very much to be a No10: [Kevin] De Bruyne likes it, Oscar likes it, Mata likes it, [Eden] Hazard likes it. It is a natural system for all these players to play. "But in another match I could change it. If we are losing, we might need to have two pure strikers. It is something we will work on because I would like to have this capacity to have it ready to play, independent of the players we have. Naturally, we will have four at the back and in my team, the attackers are attackers. Some guys say we play 4-2-3-1, blah blah blah blah, and sometimes the attackers have a defensive job so it is more like 4-5-1. But it is not 4-5-1, it is 4-3-3. "With Mata, I need to get to know him better. I like sometimes to play with what I call 'wingers with the wrong foot' – right-footed men on the left and left-footed men on the right. He is the only left-footed player we have when we want to play with a winger on the right side, but the competition is hard. We will have Schurrle, De Bruyne, Mata, Oscar, Hazard and Moses for these three positions and so we have many more options than Chelsea had in the last year. These are crucial positions for me. I like these players to play with high intensity so to have five players for three positions is, I think, brilliant for me. It's fantastic."

Get to watch this, then head to watch my local team play in the Champions League against Molde, the Norway champions. Can't wait for tomorrow!

If we get him, its a huge transfer 6 pointer. Similar to RVP, not only do we get him, but United lose one of their best players. Even last season when he wasn't playing, in 26 league games he still got 12 goals.

Never really did it on the big stage till Mourinho moulded him though, I like Milito too, but I feel he excelled under Mourinho in the big stage with the world watching. His performance against Bayern in that Champions League final is one of my favourite Champions League performances of all time, Not fancy beating players like Messi, or scoring overhead kicks, but that second goal was brilliant. Turned his man and great finish into the corner.

What gives me confidence about Lukaku this year is the way Mourinho moulded Milito, a very average striker, into one of the worlds best for Inter.

Really think he is going to have a Balesque season this year.

Brilliant example. Burnout. Another player who lost his pace and everything else went. Time for Nando to go and Lukaku to shine.

Jesus Christ I completly forgot about Essien. What a legend.

Never seen him play, but seems a promising young midfielder and a 6 ft 1 gives us abit of a physical presence in there.

I give up.

Yes, lets splash out big money and huge wages for a 31 year old and start him above Lukaku and others. While we're at it, I hear Chopper Harris is looking for a new club. Eric Djemba-Djemba could solve the problems with our double pivot and I hear Adriano just got released aswell, good back up for Ibra.

When did I say Drogba didn't deliever in the big games? I'm a biggest Drogba fan as much as the next man, don't get me wrong, I'm just pointing out that there was games that he didn't deliever in and wasn't the angel that everyone makes out to be. But lets remember him for the games you stated instead of the others, every player has there flaws, Drogba won us the Champions League.

Can we stop posting this shite uncrediable sources please? They make no difference to the outcome of the transfer.

Pipe down lads, small time games then, not a postseason friendly against City when it mattered!

Forgot about this place for the last while, then just got pissed off when Rafa got appointed so didn't bother venting my frustrations about it, But in fairness to him he did okay towards the end. Hopefully i'll be back for good now, when i'm not busy working at the weekends

Thats what I meant. They'll sign a striker, either Suarez/Cavani/Lewandoski, and they'll compete with Benzema, more then likely they'll start because Benzema was poor for alot of last season.

Heavily linked with Lewandoski and Cavani, also with Higuain leaving they'll need someone to compete or be back up to Benzema.

He gave away the ball in a postseason friendly OSCAR OUT!

Can see them seriously declining next season to be honest. Absurd amount of money for Fernandinho. They lack depth in their defence. Hart is mistake prone these days. In the middle, Yaya Toure is declining and seemed to go off the pace since he came back from the ACON last January, other then that, Fernandinho is average, Milner and Barry are average footballers and Rodwell and Garcia hardly set the world on fire. Up front, They never give Dzeko the chance he deserves, Silva has slipped wayyy behind Mata, In my opinion they signed Navas about 3 years too late. He is an explosive winger who relys on his pace. He is also 28 in November, so thats going to slip. Aguero only got 12 goals last season but i'd expect him to be decent again this season. And all in all, I don't rate Pellegrini. Already proved at Real Madrid he couldn't handle big ego's. I'm not saying this because I'm a Chelsea fan, but looking at it from the outside, I'd be very worried if i was a City fan. They really need to make sure they get Isco, a top class Striker and in my opinion, another midfielder, and a cover/challenging for starting centre half.

Have a feeling he'll go to Madrid before the end of next week to be honest.