Mourinho: Arsenal are more than ready to be title contenders

“Mourinho has shown little respect for Wenger over the years, and…it is clear that he regards the Arsenal manager as a hypocrite”, says Hughes.

“One day you will look at the players we have developed here compared to the spending and other clubs and you will be surprised”.

Both teams have been rather quiet in the summer transfer market, with Arsenal signing Chelsea legend Petr Cech resulting in the Blues bringing in Asmir Begovic as his replacement.

Chelsea’s own investment in that time amounts to nearly £235million.

It’s an Arsenal squad Mourinho expects to challenge his own side for the title.

Wenger threw out that notion, however, claiming Arsenal still lead the way on producing home-grown talent.

The champions ‘ captain, 34, has also vowed never to follow former team-mates Petr Cech and Frank Lampard in joining another Premier League club.

“I discussed it a lot with [assistant coach] Rui Faria and we thought that 20 minutes of football is more rich, has more ingredients than training in a small group of three”, Mourinho said on www.chelseafc.com. This is a match where you are not obsessed with the result, we just want to train.

Mourinho said: “If other guys use holiday time also for interviews, it’s their problem”.

“I want to develop him as a centre-back and at the moment we have just the right number”. “He will get games at Arsenal”.

According to Mourinhio, Real Madrid’s failure to win any major trophies despite Ronaldo’s 61 goals in all competitions last season makes the Portuguese world’s No. 3 behind Messi and Hazard.

Chelsea and Barcelona go head-to-head in an global Champions Cup pre-season clash at the FedEx Field in Maryland on Wednesday morning.

“It is nice to play against them. I think they are more than ready to be title contenders”, Mourinho said, as reported by The Guardian.

“It is all about opinions, you have to compare the numbers”.

“I think they have been missing football for a while so I hope they enjoyed”. It is important you are calm. “With his age he can improve”. And he has been a father figure in my career so I owe him an bad lot.