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Jose Mourinho

LONDON. — Jose Mourinho has hit out at questions about the mood in the Chelsea dressing room and insists he has nothing to prove amid his side’s poor run of form.

The English Premier League soccer champions have secured just four points from five games this season, while Mourinho has already admitted that he and his players are unhappy with the start they have made.

But when asked about the mood among his players ahead of his side’s Champions League group-stage opener against Maccabi Tel Aviv, Mourinho replied: “This is a question you keep asking and you should expect the same answer. You can have smiles and jokes, it’s a basic answer. When people are not getting success you work for, and I promise you we work hard, people get frustrated.

“It’s sad that it’s like that. It’s so simple to accept that the results are not good because that’s football and every season you have some seasons where teams don’t start well, have a bad result, and it’s so easy to connect that to bad luck, bad injuries. It’s quite sad that people go in other directions to find problems that don’t exist. That’s your problem.

“The only problem we have it that we don’t have good results. We aren’t happy, but we know what we are.

“In other clubs, you have to go back two, three, four, five years to remember good results. In our case, you have to go back three months, and three months ago we were the best team in the country, the best manager, best players. — AFP.