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high on quality, lower on numbers is the Mourinho planFriday, Jul 21, 2006
Jose Mourinho chose Thursday’s first sighting of the new Chelsea adidas
home kit to explain why smaller may be more beautiful when it comes to his
squad for the approaching season.
Chelsea players wearing the full blue and white was a strong reminder that
the new campaign is just weeks away. It’s been long in the planning for
Mourinho and he has subtle changes in mind.
For his two seasons at Stamford Bridge, the rough rule of thumb was two
players for every position plus three goalkeepers. It is a policy that began
for Claudio Ranieri’s last season in charge, the first after Roman
Abramovich arrived, and it has been maintained since.
But now the current Chelsea manager wishes to drive a trimmed down, more
nippy model, and he has been justifying why.
“I had a situation last season where I lost a player I like very much in
Tiago because he was afraid of not having enough chances to play at Chelsea.
This season there is a chance of losing another player I like in Damien
Duff,” Mourinho said.
“Why? Because he is afraid of not having as many matches as he wishes. That
is the reality. When you have a squad of such high quality and at the same
time high numbers, some players feel really difficult to face.
“A player like John Terry or Frank Lampard is not afraid. I can bring 50
central defenders and Terry is not afraid. But generally players, they want
to play. People sometimes look at football players as people focussed on
money but more than that they love to play football. They can leave a big
team like Chelsea and some can even be ready to lose some money in relation
to their contracts to play football.”
It is Mourinho’s belief that a small reduction in squad size will allow him
to give the vast majority of players the minimum number of games they
deserve. It is one of the ways he envisages improving Chelsea still further
for the season ahead and years beyond.
“Even to buy young players like Jon Mikel or Kalou I have to be able to
tell them they will play. The same thing with Lassana Diarra,” he claimed.
“After he played the European Under 21 championships he had a lot of clubs,
English, French, Spanish and Portuguese watching and for me to tell him you
don’t go, you will stay, you will play, that is only possible with this
kind of squad.
“So we will have top quality and short numbers, so everybody knows they
will have a lot of chances. In this manner I can keep high quality,
everybody happy in the group and very good young players are not afraid to
come to Chelsea.”
A squad size of 20 is the number suggested — with no reduction in
versatility.
“Of course two right-backs, of course two left-backs and of course four
central defenders, but when I have William Gallas in that group of central
defenders I can say I have three right-backs and I have three left backs.
“When I have Essien, he can play defensive midfielder or on the right-side
of midfield or on the left side. Kalou is a second striker, Kalou is a left
winger, Kalou is a right winger. If we play 4-4-2 he is a striker, if we
play 4-3-3 he is a winger.
“So because we have five or six players who are adapted to different
positions, it is a 20-player squad with more options than having two players
for each position.”
Mourinho talked further about one of his most adaptable charges — World Cup
finalist William Gallas.
“Gallas will be at Chelsea next season. At this moment I cannot say if it
will be with one year of contract or with five years of contract, but I
think when he comes from his holiday and joins us, maybe a couple of days
after that we can tell you whether William is staying with one year of
contract or five.”
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