Jose Mourinho: Tottenham Hotspur could win title
But speaking ahead of the Premier League trip to Tottenham Hotspur on 29 November, he said, as quoted by the club’s website: “These are [media] stories that start on 1 September when the market closes, and stories that will be more and more when 1 January is getting closer”.
“Nobody speaks about them as title contenders like they speak about City or United”.
“It is true we arrive maybe not in the best condition to compete in the right way but [we] respect our medical staff for what they do”. Chelsea have been awful this year, but they won their last EPL match last weekend and a Champions League match in midweek.
“They go smoothly, step by step”.
‘There’s no-one better to bring them back [than Jose Mourinho], but I think he needs to be a little bit more humble in his approach to the ordinary, average human being. They give conditions, without any kind of pressure, for the young players to develop in the team. The club is powerful enough to decide they don’t have to sell and they can invest.
“We need energy because it’s a Sunday morning, flying back [from Azerbaijan on Thursday] and no day to prepare for the game. Good stability, playing well, a very, very good team”.
Chelsea’s toilswould appear to have offered a competitor a golden opportunity to secure a top-four finish and entry into the Champions League.
On the other hand, Spurs are in the midst of the longest current unbeaten run in the league, and sit 5th.
Kane and Costa were the two strikers selected by their peers in the PFA team of the season a year ago, but they and their clubs now appear to be on very different trajectories, says Richard Jolly of ESPN. You would start thinking they can get top four, especially with the way the Premier League has gone this season.
Mauricio Pochettino’s side have impressed this season, with the challenge breaking into those Champions League positions.
Tottenham host Chelsea in the latest clash between the London rivals in what is another massive fixture for both sides.
Pochettino clearly remembers how distressed Jose Mourinho was in the aftermath of such a heavy defeat and how much his own players fed off the result. “I could understand. It has been like that some games for me”, said Pochettino. “He told me a few “nice words” from where he was”. You have to anticipate and read the game faster. That was my opinion.
“When you play Saturday and then you play Tuesday, you are immediately in accumulation, you are already in overload”, Mourinho added. But he’s not reading the game properly in these actions.