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JOSE MOURINHO insists Manchester United are not title favourites this season.

Mourinho reckons the bookies have got it wrong in tipping United to land the Premier League crown after their 4-0 thrashing of West Ham last Sunday.

The United boss believes Chelsea are still the team to beat, despite the champions’ shock 3-2 home defeat to Burnley in their opening game.

“I’m too experienced and stable to lose my discipline, my stability and to think a 4-0 really makes us the best team in the country, the favourites or the dream team,” said Mourinho.

“We’re not favourites and we’re not the dream team.

“We’re just a team with more confidence than last season, with more time of having worked together but I’m calm.

“For me the favourite is the champion – always. It doesn’t mean you are going to win it again, but I think it is the stamp that you have when you are champion.

“It is that the next season you are the favourite. I just want to think, as I said before West Ham, that we go to every match and we only think about winning that match.

“I don’t go to any match this season thinking that the opponent is better than us. We are not going into any match thinking that way.

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“We go into every match trying to win. If we win, we win – if we don’t win, we don’t win.”

Mourinho, whose side travel to Swansea today, has also laughed off suggestions the Blues are weaker after he raided Stamford Bridge to sign midfielder Nemanja Matic.

United landed Matic in a £40m deal and the Serbia international has made an impressive start at Old Trafford. Chelsea have been criticised for selling such an influential star to a big rival, but Mourinho has reminded people that the London outfit have also spent big on landing new faces.

Mourinho added: “When people say that Chelsea lost, for example, an important midfield player – if you lose one player but you buy (Tiemoue) Bakayoko for example, what’s the problem?

“The problem is when you sell and don’t buy. When you sell and keep players and buy, what’s the problem? You’re probably even stronger.”

Mourinho confirmed he doesn’t intend to make another signing before the transfer window closes.