Calllaris Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Link: watch video: http://www.theguardi...tupid-questions • Manager refuses that third season is when everything goes wrong • ‘Nobody can steal our history - we know we are champions of England’ Chelsea manager José Mourinho tells a press conference he has nothing to prove to anyone after his team’s poor start. José Mourinho will make changes to his Chelsea lineup for their opening Champions League group game against Maccabi Tel Aviv on Wednesday as he seeks to revive his side after their worst start to a top-flight campaign in 29 years, though he bristled at suggestions that on past form his third season was when everything generally went wrong. At the inference that he had difficulty sustaining momentum into a third campaign, the manager grew frustrated with the line of questioning and pointed to success in previous stints in London and Madrid. “My third season in Porto? I didn’t have a third season. In Inter, I didn’t have a third season. My third season at Chelsea the first time, I won the FA Cup and the Carling Cup, and I played the Champions League semi-finals. José Mourinho and Chelsea face ghosts of 2007 when Maccabi Tel Aviv visit | Dominic Fifield“The third season in Real Madrid I won the Super Cup, lost the cup final, and I went to the Champions League semi-finals. These are my third seasons. So click Google instead of asking stupid questions. You spoke about the third season, and I’m telling you the question is stupid. I know the point is that the question is stupid. “Asking about building dynasties is a different question. I haven’t done that before. This will be the first time I’m trying to do that, so I don’t have previous experience from the past.” Mourinho intends to offer some of his increasingly beleaguered players a breather against the Israelis with one eye on Saturday’s derby against Arsenal. Mourinho trained with a 23-man squad at Cobham on Tuesday which included Oscar and Baba Rahman with only Radamel Falcao, who is nursing a slight tendon injury, absent. His side have won only once to date this season and languish just above the relegation zone in the Premier League, already 11 points from Manchester City at the top, with European competition potentially offering some respite from domestic toils. “We are not all smiles, laughing and joking,” said Mourinho, who has seen players such as Branislav Ivanovic and Nemanja Matic labour to date this season. “It’s a basic answer. When people are not getting their success that you work for, and I promise you we work a lot for that, people are frustrated and not happy. That’s basic. “I have a squad. I trust the squad and I don’t have to play with the same XI. I can make changes. I know the consequences of that because, if I make a couple of changes in my team, instead of you saying ‘he has a squad, he has more options, he is looking for a new dynamic, he wants to give a couple of chances to people who have been working hard’, I know what you will say. If I leave out Azpilicueta it’s ‘because I have a problem with him’. The same with Terry, the same with Fàbregas. I know the consequences. “But I cannot be worried about that. I have to be just worried about my team and players. Yes I will make a couple of changes because I have to try and different dynamic, I have to try and couple of different faces, and to give chances to people who have not been playing but have been working hard. I promise you we are working. When we say business as usual, it’s true. Business as usual, with one difference. We are not happy.” Mourinho, who was backed publicly by his goalkeeper Asmir Begovic, insisted he was not under pressure despite the team’s slack start as “they have beaten only West Bromwich Albion to date this term” and intimated he was afforded different treatment to other managers. “The only real problem we have is we don’t have good results,” he added. Football rumours: José Mourinho and Chelsea ban ‘banter’?“Our lives are about getting good results but, you know, at other clubs you have to go back two, three, five, six, 10 years to remember good results. In our case you have to go back three months. Three months we were the best team in the country, the best manager, the players. “Why are some managers not in difficult situations five, six, 10 years [without winning trophies] and I am the current champion of England: so why should I be in trouble? Why? We’re not happy, but we know what we are. “It’s the same music the fans sing every game: we know what we are, champions of England. Our start has been so, so bad, but nobody can steal our trophies, our history. Nobody can do that. You can try, but you can’t do that. We know what we are. Champions of England.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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