Jose Mourinho has warned Chelsea\u2019s title rivals that his revamped squad is ready to sustain a challenge for the next 10 years.<\/p>\n
The Special One has spent around \u00a360million drafting in Diego Costa, Cesc Fabregas and defender Filipe Luis, with Blues legend Didier Drogba also returning on a free.<\/p>\n
Mourinho also has Eden Hazard, 23, and Oscar, 22, about to enter their third seasons, while Andre Schurrle, 23, is fresh from winning the World Cup.<\/p>\n
Mourinho said: \u201cIt\u2019s a squad for tomorrow, for next season and also a squad with big possibilities for the next five, 10 years with so many young people so I like my squad very much.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no manager in the world that has the perfect squad. No manager that says \u2018My squad is perfect\u2019 or couldn\u2019t improve in certain positions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only thing I can say is that I like very much the squad. The club was fantastic because it gave me the three targets I was asking, in the left-back, a midfield player and a striker.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn fact, it gave me two strikers because Didier is also back. So we have the squad that we want to have, we don\u2019t say it\u2019s perfect, we don\u2019t say it\u2019s the best, we say we like very much our squad.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mourinho also believes that having lost Luis Suarez, the English game should share Chelsea\u2019s joy at landing Costa in particular, following his \u00a332million switch from Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n
Chelsea begin their bid to reclaim the Premier League crown at Burnley on Monday.<\/p>\n
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