Mourinho Quotes In Full  (Sky Sports)

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho was in defiant mood ahead of his side’s crucial Champions League clash with Dynamo Kiev.

The pressure on Mourinho intensified further following the 3-1 home defeat to Liverpool at the weekend and condemned Chelsea to their ninth loss in 17 matches in all competitions this season.

Former Chelsea forward Tony Cascarino said on Monday the Portuguese is facing the "biggest week of his career" so far and would not be the club's manager if he loses his next two matches against Kiev and Stoke City.

Ahead of what could be a decisive week in his Chelsea career, here are Mourinho's quotes ahead of Wednesday night's match with Kiev at Stamford Bridge.

Question: Will you get time to turn things round. Have you spoken to Roman Abramovich since Saturday? How long do you have?

Mourinho: "I don't have to answer you if I was with Roman or not. I have four years. In this case, three years and seven months, or something like that."

Q: Some players would rather lose than win for you. Have you lost the dressing room?

Mourinho: "Look, I think it's a very sad accusation because you are accusing the players, or more than one player - I don't know what to report - of dishonesty. If I accuse you of being dishonest, a dishonest journalist, you'd be very upset and probably you'd take legal action. So I think it's a question for the players, not for me."

Q: How have the players responded since defeat on Saturday? Responding still to your methods?

Mourinho: "Yes. Giving their best every minute of every training session. Giving solidarity in between all of us. Fantastic personal relationship. Very good professional relationship. Training always in the limits of the quality and the effort. And always with the strong desire to win the next match, which is what we're going to try and do tomorrow."

Q: Same players, different results...

Mourinho: "Same manager."

Q: Why are the results so different?

Mourinho: "Yes, I know. No (I can't tell you) because I'll be here a long time. It's a combination of factors. Some of them I can't, I don't even want to touch them. And yes I know."

Q: Are they all football related?

Mourinho: "Everything is football related, right. We don't want to blame social or political problems in some corner of the globe, you don't want to blame these aspects or bring these aspects to football problems. So everything is football related, of course."

Q: Difficult period for the club and you...

Mourinho: "And the players."

Q: Are you going to be a better coach for this?

Mourinho: "I try to be every day. Not because of this. I try to be every day. If I'd only become a better coach because of bad results, then I'd be a really bad coach because, in the last 15 years, I'd never have improved. But I try and improve every day, analyse every detail of my work every day, preparing sessions, analysing matches, preparing matches. Every day. This is new for me. That's why I'm a good one. I've not experienced this before. Yesterday a friend sent me some quotes of my press conference after the Champions League final in May 2004. I'd completely forgotten about it. In May 2004 I said that, one day in my career, bad results would come. I said that in 2004 after winning the Champions League final with Porto. One day the bad results will come and I'll face the bad results with all the same honesty and dignity that I'm facing now as a European champion. May 2004. So, 11 years later, I resisted well to the nature of my job and the nature of football. 11 years waiting for this. It took time, but it's come in a moment when I'm stable and strong to face it."

Q: Alvaro Arbeloa said you were like a bullet-proof vest for players. Are you taking too many bullets at the moment?

Mourinho: "For my players I'll do everything. I always do it. I'm not going to change."

Q: Happy to take more bullets if need be?

Mourinho: "Yes."

Q: Radamel Falcao?

Mourinho: "Falcao had, today, an important injury. Not so important as the ones he had previously, but an important muscular injury and he will be out for a few weeks, so there's no point speaking about him. Just to give you this sad news."

Q: How easy is self-reflection for you? And what do you need to do differently to be a better manager?

Mourinho: "To do what I did all my life. Which is to study and, in my case, it's difficult to study from others. When you reach my level, it's difficult to learn from others. You have to learn from yourself, with your own experiences, day by day, analysing your work. That's why I have a staff of assistants to discuss every detail of our job. I learn with it day by day, with the experiences which come every day."

Q: Way you interact with other people could change?

Mourinho: "It doesn't affect me."

Q: You've had 11 years to prepare for this bad run, and you're strong and stable. Why are results not turning around? This is more than a blip... Big football problems?

Mourinho: "I don't want to say much more. I said already it's a combination of factors. It's not one reason. One reason would be easy to fix. It's not one reason. It's a combination of factors. I don't want to say more than that."

Q: Always knew there would be a blip at some stage, handle it with dignity. Have you done that? Lots of FA punishments...

Mourinho: "You know the way I am going to show my dignity in this moment? By not answering you. That's how I will show my dignity."

Q: Players have asked you to play in a different way... is that true?

Mourinho: "No."

Q: Confident in your own ability. Has this run affected your confidence in any way?

Mourinho: "No. You asked me yes or no, I answered you 'no'. No (I won't expand). You asked me yes or no, and I answered no."

Q: Why don't you arrange a press conference with a director to reaffirm support in Jose?

Chelsea press officer Steve Adkins: "We already made our decision quite clear in the statement we put out a while ago."

Q: Team news?

Mourinho: "I think Chelsea will finish first in this group. I think, if you don' finish first, we'll finish second. But I'm completely convinced we are going to qualify, and I think first. I think first. But the reality is that the game tomorrow is not even a game we have to win. Because a draw tomorrow, with two victories in the last two matches, we would qualify. No doubt, because Dynamo have to play against Porto and they both cannot win. So even this match is not a must win. It's a must not lose, but not a must win. So our situation in the Champions League is not phenomenal, but it's absolutely normal. We have an important game tomorrow, but it's not a game we need to win like, for example, in a knockout match. I'm convinced we can finish first. That's what I think. If not first, then second."

Q: Who was that friend who messaged you? Ferguson went through runs like this - have you had any messages from him?

Mourinho: "Look, my friend is not a football person. And I'm not going to tell you which football people called me or sent me SMS because that would be unfair with some of them who I might forget. So it's better not to say. I've had messages from friends. Some are football people. Some are not. But I don't have to (tell you)."