Yeah...a dream team without a proper defensive midfielder. That is so obviously a Mourinho team... So many journalists out there trying to be clever and predict Mourinho's plans for next season and then writing all these silly things. Pathetic.
Yes, he has said that but it will be nice if he does that right in front of the media. Still so much rubbish being reported despite his interview yesterday.
Reading all these idiotic transfers rumours going on about right now, Mourinho's press conference next Monday can't come soon enough. Need to squash them completely!
It's highly unlikely that Lampard will ever go against Mourinho. As I said, the latter will know how to manage and use him (and Essien). He might be at fault for the AVB scenario but AVB didn't exactly help himself with his poor man management. And also, Lampard didn't play as much as he would probably have liked last season but he didn't seem to have any problem with Benitez, did he? Think Lampard has come to a point where he knows he won't be playing week in week out anymore. His contribution will still be important, both on and off the pitch, but certainly won't be playing every game anymore. As much as it's probably annoying to hear Essien keep on calling Jose 'daddy', it's just a relationship and nothing more. People are just being paranoid and have that nostalgic thinking Mourinho will just come back and revert everything back to the old days under him.
What makes you think those two would even be an issue? Both of those players are smart enough to realize that they are never going to be first team starters anymore and Mourinho is also intelligent enough to see that. He's not exactly one to let sentiments get the better of him. He will know how to manage and use the both of them and Essien didn't exactly cause any trouble at Madrid despite being a squad player, did he?
Can't beat Cech though (assuming if he can only speak those 5 languages). Cech can speak Czech, English, French, German, Slovak, Spanish, and Italian. Can also speak basic Russian, Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian apparently. Jose ain't that special.