Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has admitted that he wishes his strikers will start scoring more goals, but he insists that he has no plans of signing a new hit-man in January, despite being linked with AS Monaco star Radamel Falcao.
The Blues fell to a shock 3-2 defeat on Saturday away at Stoke City and their two goals once again came from the midfield as Andre Schurrle bagged an impressive brace.
So far this season, between Samuel Eto’o, Fernando Torres and Demba Ba, they have only scored four goals in the Premier League and Mourinho admits that he wishes his strike-force was more lethal in front of goal.
“If you tell me [Sergio] Agüero has scored already 10 or 12 goals, [Alvaro] Negredo 10 or 12 goals, [Edin] Dzeko four or five, Rooney eight or 10, [Olivier] Giroud eight or 10, [Daniel] Sturridge eight or 10, [Luis] Suárez 10 or 12, if you ask me would I like my strikers to score eight-10-12 goals, yes,” Mourinho said.
“If we had eight-10-12 goals [from the strikers] we would be top of the league. That’s a reality but my strikers give everything and the team works hard. What can you do more? We work, we keep working. That’s the only way I know is to keep working.
“Of course we want the best possible results, but I am not waiting for players, I am not asking for players. This is a period for the club and this is a period of my team where we have to try and improve the players we have and try to build a future.
“It is my squad. For good and for bad it is my squad. Of course it is not the perfect squad, but it is my squad and I work with them until the last day. To criticise does not help me. What do I win by criticising my players? I win nothing.”
Written by Alex Batt – @AlexBatt – @AlexsArticles
