Mourinho Plays Down Wenger’s Handshake Snub

I think we have to get over the fact he’s left now. It is the two teams who play against each other.’.

“A player that didn’t finish the season and doesn’t start the season obviously doesn’t make make me happy”.

Saturday sees Chelsea begin their title defence with the visit of Swansea City to Stamford Bridge.

After winning last season’s FA Cup final against Aston Villa in swaggering style and finishing strongly in the league, Ramsey sees no reason why Arsenal can’t win the title for the first time since 2004 – provided they avoid the kind of sluggish start that proved so costly a year ago.

The only stain on Arsenal’s weekend was an ankle injury sustained by Jack Wilshere on the eve of the game, but although the England midfielder has a history of ankle problems, Wenger said that his absence was likely to be “a matter of days”.

Sat in a small room overlooking the Emirates’ impeccable pitch, Cazorla’s smile and charisma are infectious. You can not expect him to repeat that.

“Extremely energetic, contagious enthusiasm and very ambitious”. “It’s maybe the boost we needed and we go again for the season”.

“Now it is their competitive nature and their quality that top teams have to play against”. “People don’t care that English teams are struggling in Europe?”

“It has helped the team reach a completely different level”.

Wenger suggested it had been a reaction to previous incidents.

‘I was doing what I think the status of my club and my status as a manager have to do, which is be there for the winners, to wait for them, ‘ said Mourinho.

You can get enhanced odds of 8/1 on Chelsea to win the title – or 20/1 on Man Utd or Arsenal. They do have one of the strongest squads and as long as the players stay fit, Arsenal will have a chance to win the league.

“I thought the game was opened up by a bit of individual brilliance – [Oxlade-Chamberlain] came inside and hit it into the top corner”.

“That is what I found the most impressive when I first arrived at the club”.

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While that deal will be hard to pull off of course, Arsenal fans aren’t as irate as they would’ve been with the current crop having covered themselves in glory on the field.

Despite a difference of opinion over the sale of goalkeeper Petr Cech to rivals Arsenal, and the suspicion that he would like to have been granted greater transfer funds this summer, Mourinho insists he and the Russian billionaire are now in unison.