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		</div><p>Jose Mourinho has questioned the attitude of his Chelsea players, none of whom he would describe as untouchable, ahead of Tuesday night’s Champions League clash at his former club Porto.</p>
<p>The Blues boss memorably described the nucleus of his first Chelsea side as permanent names on the team-sheet, but believes his underperforming players are short of that status this term.</p>
<p>“Untouchables in football, only consistency can give you that status,” said Mourinho, whose champions are 15th in the Premier League after two wins in the opening seven games.</p>
<p>“Football is about today, it’s not about yesterday. In football you have to be consistent in your performance, in your emotion.</p>
<p>“There are two sorts of champions. There are champions who win something – and there are lots of them – but there are the other champions who during their career they win one, two, three, four, five, 10 or 20 titles.</p>
<p>“In this club we have 25 champions from last year, but serial champions in this squad, how many do we have? John Terry, John (Obi) Mikel, (Branislav) Ivanovic are serial champions.</p>
<figure id="attachment_80244" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-80244" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/image259.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/image259.jpg" alt="John Terry, John (Obi) Mikel, Branislav Ivanovic " width="600" height="325" class="size-full wp-image-80244" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-80244" class="wp-caption-text">John Terry, John (Obi) Mikel, Branislav Ivanovic</figcaption></figure>
<p>“Clearly it’s an attitude perspective of some individuals. And when you have individuals with that unstable attitude in terms of motivation, desire and commitment you will pay.”</p>
<p>Mourinho recognises winning the competitive Premier League season after season is a challenge which is difficult to achieve, but he demands the attitude of serial winners, nonetheless.</p>
<p>He added: “I can be five or 10 years without winning a title, but I will still be a serial champion in my approach and my attitude.</p>
<p>“This is the problem we have at this moment.”</p>
<p>Mourinho returns on Tuesday night to Estadio do Dragao where he rose to prominence, winning the 2003 Europa League and 2004 Champions League.</p>
<p>He will put sentiment to one side as he continues his bid for a third European Cup with a third club.</p>
<p>But if Chelsea are to do that, Mourinho believes his players need to show more consistency.</p>
<p>He added: “Generally I’m happy and positive. They fight and want to improve, but we have some players who you want more from.</p>
<p>“I cannot say I’m happy with one, two, three, four or five players. I look for consistency.</p>
<p>“When you want to be a big team and you want to win you have to be consistent in your attitude.”</p>
<figure id="attachment_80245" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-80245" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/image260.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/image260.jpg" alt="Striker Diego Costa" width="600" height="325" class="size-full wp-image-80245" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-80245" class="wp-caption-text">Striker Diego Costa</figcaption></figure>
<p>Diego Costa is two matches into a three-match domestic suspension for violent conduct against Arsenal, but is available at Porto.</p>
<p>Asked if he would like 11 players to show the same desire of Costa after Chelsea’s stuttering start, Mourinho could not resist a dig at the Football Association for the retrospective ban.</p>
<p>“I think we would lose every game, because the desire to suspend him is so big that we wouldn’t have players to start the game,” Mourinho said.</p>
<p>“I’m happy to have only one and let him play until they decide to suspend him again.”</p>
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