By Tom Finn
September 13, 2014
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has said that new signing Loic Remy is the answer for last season’s lack of goals, and with front man Diego Costa injured the £10.5 million signing is expected to make his debut this weekend against Swansea at the Bridge.
The 27-year-old French international was all set to join Liverpool before an obscure heart condition was discovered while having his medical at Melwood, but this did not put off Mourinho from signing him for Chelsea while also bullishly predicting that a glut of goals will follow.
When speaking to the Daily Mirror Mourinho said: “We had a good group of strikers last season, but we changed three for three and we believe these three give us more.
“The main difference between Torres and Remy is Nando was here for a few years, and Remy has just arrived.
“It’s a new life for him. For Fernando, it would be the same life he had had for previous years.
“Nando was a fantastic guy, a fantastic professional. His career here was not super-successful but, at the right moment, in important moments, he was there many times and we like him a lot.
“But Remy was one of the players we had in our ¬objectives, one of the players we had ready to try and get in case a space opened.
“So now we have a guy like Didier, a kind of striker for whom the box is his natural habitat, the best of the three in the air.
“Remy is very fast, he attacks spaces, he can play even from the sides like he does for France, coming in from the right or, with Alan Pardew at Newcastle, from the left.
“And Diego is a player we were chasing for about a year, waiting to get him, and we think he’s a player very adapted to the style of play we want to implement in the team.’’
When asked about Remy’s heart condition Mourinho said: “We don’t have Liverpool’s report. For us, medical responsibilities start with Dr Paco Biosca.
“He did his job, taking the ¬opinions from top ¬specialists in different areas, and the final conclusion was the one France had before the World Cup: the player has no problem.”
