PREMIER LEAGUE COUNTDOWN: I’m not malicious – Terry: Mourinho staying real bad news – for rivals
JOHN TERRY reckons Jose Mourinho committing his future to Chelsea is bad news for the rest of the Premier League.
The Blues boss has agreed a four-year deal with the champions and has even been talking about staying on for the next 10 years.
Captain Terry (below) said: “Stability is key for us, which we have missed over the previous five or six years.
“I am delighted he will stay for a few more years.
“It’s great news for the club but terrible news for everybody else because the other managers know that he finds ways to beat teams, he knows people inside out, on and off the pitch.
“Whether you’re a player or manager, he does his groundwork. He knows everything.
“It’s stable here, it’s calm. But the manager still pushes us every single day. You see him on the training pitch in pre-season – he is leading from the front.
“He demands the very best from us on a daily basis, which is why for me he is the best in the world by a long way.
“He will keep striving, keep pushing players and getting the best out of them individually and collectively. His hunger to win is still phenomenal.”
Mourinho will demand a huge improvement against Paris St-Germain tomorrow following Wednesday’s 4-2 drubbing against New York Red Bull’s reserves.
“Even in the training games he hates losing,” said Terry.
“He hates conceding goals and that rubs off on the players.
“It’s exciting times for the club, having the best manager in the world with some of the best players in the
world.” DIEGO COSTA is ready to batter his way to another Premier League title.
The Spanish hitman ruffled plenty of feathers last season as he bashed in 20 goals to seal the crown in his first season at Stamford Bridge.
Costa’s roughhouse style, which earned him a three-match ban for stamping on Liverpool’s Emre Can, made him a target for opposition players and fans.
Yet Jose Mourinho and his team-mates wouldn’t swap the £32m man for the world.
Costa cannot wait to get cracking with the new season.
He said: “Goals are what count for me. It’s not about a battle with defenders.
“Fighting hard, giving everything and working hard on the field, you have to combine with the goals you score.
“It doesn’t matter if defenders want to battle with me or not, I will just be trying to do my job as well as I possibly can.
“Do I enjoy the aggression of English football? No, I like to play football, I like to score goals, I like to do things well. You can get different types of games – some which are more of a battle, some which are less hard fought.
“I think it depends on each game, how you feel a game happens to be going, how you are playing at a given time, as no two games are the same.
“I don’t think I have done anything malicious. I’ve not had a red card, so why change anything about the way I am?
“I’ve always played this way for all the sides I’ve been with and I’ve always scored a lot of goals.
“The key for me is to score goals and win trophies. If I change in any way, I’m not going to be the same player.
“I feel very much at ease and neither the manager nor anyone else at the club has said anything to me. At no point have I shown any lack of loyalty at all, so that is good enough for me.”
New signing Radamel Falcao finally joined up with the Chelsea squad on tour this week and was looking sharp in training as Mourinho put the Colombian through his paces.
Costa knows Falcao well following their time together at Atletico Madrid –