Mourinho: Winning league is beyond us

Jose Mourinho may have been holding a champagne flute to mark his birthday, but the Chelsea manager still doesn’t think he’ll be doing the same in May to celebrate the title.

When asked yesterday whether he thinks his squad can win this league, he claimed: “I don’t think so.

“We are improving a lot, the team, the players, so the prospective of champagne in the future is good. We are going in a good direction. But this? I don’t think so.”