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Chelsea boss no longer needs to MOTIVATE his players

 

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has admitted that he no longer has to fire up his players to get them motivated for a match and this will not be a part of his strategy for this afternoons match against Hull City which presents Chelsea with the opportunity to extend their lead at the top of the Barclays Premiership.


“This season I don’t need confrontational leadership – last season I felt I needed it a few times,” Mourinho said.


“Basically, it’s when you are ready to provoke your players to try to create some conflicts with the intention to bring out the best of them.


“In this moment I don’t think I need that with this group because things are going in the direction I want.


“Obviously, you can say: ‘But you lost in the Champions League and you lost against Bradford [in the FA Cup] but, generally, the way they work, behave, live together, their motivations, their responsibilities, their frustrations, the way they react to the negative and positive moments, the absence of complacency: all this is going well.


“I just need to be present. I don’t need to be a big leader, or even try to find strategies as a leader.”


Big leader or not the Portuguese manager has no desire to retire anytime soon.


“If I don’t stop, and if I think I want to work 15 or 20 more years, it’s exactly because I feel that happiness to work, to compete, to win, to lose, to try to win again.


“My career is beautiful, I just want to carry on and enjoy many more years, because I am too young.”


“When I win titles, the gifts are for my wife, my daughter and my son,” he added.


“The only thing I do is I take my watch from my wrist and I don’t wear it again, I keep it. When I finish a season with a trophy, that season is represented with a watch.


“I have a big collection, they’re in a safe box. Instead of medals or this or that, I keep a watch.”

 

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