Brazilian trio Costa, Ramires and Kenedy were pictured leaving swanky central London club Libertine in the early hours of Thursday morning along with boxer James DeGale despite being in training the next day.
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Jose Mourinho will decide whether he restores Diego Costa to the starting line-up or continue to freeze him out as he did against Tottenham.
Indeed, after the game, Mourinho suggested Costa was fortunate that he was the last of his big players to be dropped. Jose Mourinho bemused by Diego Costa speculation but won’t promise he’ll start Jose Mourinho sees no reason why Diego Costa’s future is subject to speculation, but declined to say if the striker will start in Saturday’s Barclays Premier League game against Bournemouth.
Mourinho added that the Christmas party had allowed the players to unwind.
“Bournemouth did brilliant work last season”.
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Mourinho is confident his side are now moving in the right direction after recording three successive clean-sheets since the last global break. I agreed with them. “Naturally it is a really good challenge for all of us”.
Possibly we’re reading too much into this, and for all Chelsea’s attempts to spin the situation it’s hugely unlikely that every single report of internal strife among the players has been fabricated.
“There have been hard moments, but our spirit has always been good”.
“Inside the dressing room, we motivate each other and are really different than we are on normal days”.
“There is no problem with the boss, no problem with anybody”.
They still sit 14th in the Premier League table but their young French defender says there are signs of an unturn in fortunes with a top-four finish still the target.
“Courtois is selected”, Mourinho said.
“But the reality is the run was really bad and we were really strong as a club, as a technical staff, as a squad of players, to cope with that and try and go over it. Things are turning for us”.
He is most risky as a calm and composed operator in-front of goal however, with only Roma’s Edin Dzeko boasting a better shot accuracy rate than Kalinic’s 63 per cent out of the strikers who have registered 30 shots or more in Serie A.
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Bournemouth goalkeeper Artur Boruc is set to play despite carrying knee and ankle injuries after an ankle problem ruled out fellow stopper Adam Federici.
