Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho believes a second-place finish would not be classed as failure for the club, despite being favourites to lift the trophy come May.
The Blues have been busy in the Summer transfer window, spending £75million on trio; Diego Costa, Filipe Luis and Cesc Fabregas, but speaking a day before their campaign kicks-off, Mourinho believes finishing second wouldn’t be a failure for the club.
Chelsea kick off their season with an away trip to newly-promoted, Burnley, and Mourinho believes this season’s title-race will be the most competitive in recent years.
‘It’s the only league in the world where four, five or six clubs are title contenders. Only one can win. Do the other five fail? I don’t think so.
‘One view is that one succeeded and five failed. Another view is that three, four or five did fantastically but only one won.’
Mourinho then added: ‘If the team finishing first is better than us — if we are very good but somebody is better than us — that’s football. That’s not a failure. The only thing you can do is be good.
‘We have to be good, we have to better than last season as a team, the quality of our game, in everything we have to be better.
‘We have to fight for the title and after that if somebody is really better than us, it’s because they were fantastic.’
Written by Alex Batt – @AlexBatt – @AlexsArticles
