Jose Mourinho has warned he will drop his first-team regulars and
"go just with the kids" if Chelsea reach a point where they cannot
challenge for silverware, saying: "I am ruthless"
Chelsea have made a dismal
start to the defence of their Premier League title, winning just two of their
opening seven games, and Mourinho has already relegated captain John Terry to a
bench role.Speaking ahead of Chelsea's Champions League game at his former club
Porto, Mourinho said he would have no qualms about replacing all of his older
players with youth prospects in any competition that they cannot win
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| Game Day 2 Fixtures for Tuesday |
Barcelona
takes on Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League and Marc Bartra says his side
must prove its strength without Lionel Messi.
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Marc Bartra has called on
Barcelona to prove its strength when it takes on Bayer Leverkusen without the
injured Lionel Messi. Messi was withdrawn early in the first half of
Saturday's 2-1 La Liga win over Las Palmas with what was later confirmed as a
knee ligament tear which will side-line him for up to two months. Despite
the blow of losing its talisman, Bartra is determined that the European
champion will prove its mettle when Leverkusen visits Camp Nou on Tuesday
for the second game of the Champions League group stage after it drew
its opener 1-1 at Roma.
"It's bad news for us.
Like it or not, Messi is our best player, the one who causes the most problems.
I'm very sad for him," he told Barca TV. "It's a major loss but
now we have to become even stronger."
Messi became the first player
to score five in a single Champions League game when Barcelona crushed
Bundesliga outfit Leverkusen 7-1 in the knockout phase of the 2012-13
tournament, but Christoph Kramer believes it would be a mistake to forget the
other stars at Luis Enrique's disposal.
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