It is clear to everybody that Chelsea next year want to bring a striker,’ said Mourinho. What’s the future for the others? The ones who are staying are competing with the striker we are bringing in.
It is normal at the end of the season if players who are not playing a lot or players who are not happy and prefer a change will go. That is also part of the market.
We want to improve the team and the players and make some surgical movements in the transfer window. It is also clear we want to improve our players.
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‘It feels like the end, that it is over,’ said Cahill. ‘It is massively disappointing and at the end of the game, it was a horrible feeling.’
Mourinho marched on to the pitch, making a beeline for Cahill and hauled him up, put an arm around him and told him to leave with his head held high.
‘I told him he was one of the guys who should not be on the floor,’ said Mourinho. ‘I told him he was one of the guys who should walk to the dressing room with pride, that he had another performance where he gave absolutely everything.