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“In England, teams lose points”. “I am very excited to start my adventure at Chelsea and I am here to keep winning titles”, said Pedro.

According to O’Donnell’s spokeswoman, Cindi Berger, the teen suffers from mental illness and had stopped taking her medication.

“I’m really looking forward to trying to carry on the pattern of African players doing well for the club”.

Charles Sykes/AP Chelsea (r.) suffers from mental illness and did not have her medication with her when she ran way from O’Donnell’s home August. E! News just recently confirmed that 17-year old was found at the home of Steven Sheerer.

With Manchester United interested in Southampton’s Sadio Mane, his manager is adamant he’s going nowhere.

“I am not happy with Ivanovic’s form, Cahill’s, Terry’s, Azpilicueta’s, Fabregas’s, Matic’s – but the first thing is I am not happy with my own form”. I’m not happy with the results. This is the start of everything.

The questions above all others for Martinez, fans, and everybody who loves and follows Everton during the last week was the status of John Stones.

Fellow new arrival Abdul Baba Rahman was initially given that squad number following his arrival in West London earlier in the week, but he has agreed to a switch and will now wear his preffered no. 6 for the new season.

Despite Chelsea’s interest, Everton manager Roberto Martinez maintains that he has no concerns about Stones’ focus ahead of their “huge game” at home to City.

Montero has been in superb form in the opening two matches of the season, giving Chelsea full-back Branislav Ivanovic a torrid time in a 2-2 draw at Stamford Bridge and impressing again in the 2-0 victory over Newcastle in which his marker Daryl Janmaat was sent off for some rash...

The side, which is based on the island of Tenerife, is in a daily struggle to pay the bills, but thanks to the fact that Pedro was part of the club until the age of 17 before his move to Barcelona the tiny clubside are now swimming in cash.

Whether or not the furore distracted the players is debatable, but clearly something is not clicking this season at Chelsea after their dominance of last season’s Premier League.

The Portuguese has become famed for his tactical nuance both on and off the field, and sealing the signing of Pedro from under the noses of Manchester United could prove to be one of his biggest victories as Chelsea boss.

Van Gaal also staunchly insisted that United had decided against signing Pedro – rather than having been caught out prevaricating over the deal only to be gazumped by Chelsea, who quickly secured the Spanish global from Barcelona by triggering his €30million (£21.4million)...

But before we get stuck into the Mourinho stuff, there are a couple of other press conferences that have taken place this morning that will prove interesting to Chelsea fans.