Chelsea
manager Jose Mourinho is adamant new signing Juan Cuadrado was not purchased
out of transfer deadline panic.
On Monday, the Londoners allowed World Cup winner Andre Schurrle to return
to Germany in a £22m move to Wolfsburg, before announcing the arrival of
Colombia winger Cuadrado.
Mourinho's Premier League leaders paid Fiorentina £23.3m for the
26-year-old, but the Portuguese highlighted the one-in-one-out policy.
"I don't think it's the best thing for him that I speak about expectations,"
he said. "He needs his time. He is not a panic buy. It's a reaction to
Schurrle's departure."
On Schurrle, he added: "We are happy with what he gave us. We are happy with
the investment we made in him one-and-a-half years years ago and we are
happy with the profit we did in this transfer window.
"Hopefully, we made him a better player and hopefully he can have success in
the future because we like him very much."
Mourinho appeared reluctant to speak to the media at the press conference in
the wake of striker Diego Costa being retrospectively suspended for a stamp
on Liverpool's Emre Can.
When asked as to the availability within his squad, he answered: "Filipe
(Luis) is injured and the player who is suspended is suspended."
Speaking ahead of Saturday's trip to Aston Villa, Mourinho was asked about
his silence and replied: "Because if you want, you can make a silence very
noisy. You could make noise with my silence. It depends on you (the
journalists).
"If I was a journalist I could make from silence lots of words. We are one
side. The other sides - it's up to them to consider whether they are title
contenders or not. We consider ourselves title contenders."
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