Maccabi Tel Aviv v Chelsea: Champions League

“I want to stay in the club, the club want me to stay”, he said after Chelsea’s 4-0 Champions League win against Maccabi Tel-Aviv.

“They deserve better than this”, he added.

Speaking after the match, Jose Mourinho blamed the state of the Israeli pitch – he also lost Ramires in training on Monday because of the poor surface.

“My medical department is really good”.

“I was disappointed. I reacted. Ramires slid on the pitch and had a muscular injury”.

The 34-year-old was stretchered off during the second half of the 4-0 win on Tuesday, and now faces a scan to determine the extent of the injury.

The pitch at the Sammy Ofer Stadium in Haifa cut up badly throughout Tuesday’s game.

Maccabi kept up their attempts to penetrate the Chelsea defense, but their cause was undermined when Ben Haim was shown a red card for a wild kick on striker Diego Costa.

Chelsea striker Diego Costa has found himself in the media spotlight again this season – but not for just scoring goals.

“I need a calculator”, he said. “I prefer to think we have to win our match and that’s it”.

The Premier League champions will travel to White Hart Lane and play Spurs this Sunday.

“I think he is a really big doubt”.

“At half-time in the dressing room, a few kisses and a few cuddles”.

Tottenham stunned the champions in a 5-3 win in the same fixture last season, and Pochettino will be hoping that the likes of Dele Alli and Harry Kane can inspire his side to another important victory.

The teams came out for the second half but it was Maccabi who had the first chance as Eli Dasa escaped the poorly positioned Baba Rahman to go through one-on-one with Begovic but the big Bosnian was equal to the strike. “I even have a player that tomorrow his wife can have a baby and he is here to play because he knows how important it is for me”.

Chelsea struck first through Cahill, before strikes from Willian, Oscar and Zouma inside the final 20 minutes of the match turned the screw on their increasingly ragged hosts.