Jose Mourinho claims Tottenham have it easy ahead of Chelsea clash

“I’m not focused on the market because I think about going with the same players”, he said. You play the top teams and if you win you’re a hero.

Tottenham look the more likely title contenders as they prepare to host the defending league champions at the weekend, lying 10 points ahead of Chelsea and just four points off the top.

If Chelsea win this against a Spurs side who have only lost once this season in the league, people will sit up.

The Tottenham manager is adamant his thoughts are only at White Hart Lane over the coming years, but when asked if he would consider England down the line, he said: ‘You never know in football.

Stat: Harry Kane has scored seven goals in four Premier League games.

Spurs are unbeaten in their last 12 league matches – they have never gone 13 unbeaten in the Premier League era and the last time they did in the league was in March 1985 (14 games in total). They are in the Europa League, and, in the group phase, to be fair, nobody cares about Europa League. Jose Mourinho, the “Special One”, has so far been a failure in addressing the imminent concerns of the Blues as Stamford Bridge has seen itself plummeting deep into a downward spiral.

Dier insists Spurs can cope with the fixture list and believes the club’s state-of-the-art training base will be vital to their preparations.

“They go smoothly step by step, build a team, bring in new players, give conditions for young players to develop”.

I wanted him to make a certain movement that he didn’t.

“In the middle of these two matches we had to play against Liverpool and our country decided it was not a problem for us to play Saturday or Sunday”.

Chelsea Expected XI (4-2-3-1): Begovic (GK); Ivanovic, Zouma, Cahill, Azpilicueta; Fabregas, Matic; Willian, Pedro, Hazard; Costa.

The striker and Mourinho had a heated exchange at half-time of Tuesday’s win at Maccabi Tel Aviv which Mourinho afterwards played down. He told me also a few nice words from where he was.

Chelsea legend Didier Drogba has named three stars he would love to play alongside – two are FC Barcelona legends, while the other is a Real Madrid hero.

He added:”You have to anticipate things and read the game faster”.

“You’re not on fire again just because you’ve scored a goal against Norwich“. I cannot say how much easier those conditions could be.

Ramires was injured in Israel this week prior to the Maccabi game, while Terry was taken off during the match, with Mourinho confirming both are doubts for the Spurs clash.