Jose
Mourinho is keeping his cool despite Chelsea's worst start to a Premier
League season in 17 years.
The Premier League champions play at West Brom on Sunday seeking a first win
of the season after opening with a 2-2 draw at home to Swansea and a 3-0
loss at title rivals Manchester City.
"Do we have to improve? Obviously. Always," Mourinho said.
"We are calm, not happy, but calm. We need that. We need to be unhappy
because that feeling makes you work better, better than ever when the
results are not good and to be calm is very, very important too."
Chelsea signed left-back Baba Rahman and forward Pedro this week, the latter
after the Blues moved swiftly to swoop ahead of Manchester United.
Mourinho has previously spoken of working with a squad of 22 senior players
- two in every position - and Pedro's arrival inflated the first-team group
to 23 men.
But the Portuguese insisted that does not necessarily mean any players will
be leaving prior to the September 1 closure of the transfer window.
"It's not a compulsory thing. I can perfectly have one more player than is
normal for us," Mourinho said.
"One more option for me is not a problem. You have injuries, you have
suspensions, different competitions to play.
"Hopefully we can progress in the domestic cups too and there are lots of
matches to play.
"If you have one more winger in the group, it can be a problem for the
wingers not getting the playing time they want, but for me it's not a
problem."
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