{"id":4179,"date":"2026-09-11T17:43:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T17:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=4179"},"modified":"2026-09-11T17:43:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T17:43:28","slug":"jose-mourinho-admits-he-would-love-to-have-54m-chelsea-star-at-benfica-ahead-of-champions-league-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=4179","title":{"rendered":"Jose Mourinho admits he &#8216;would love&#8217; to have \u00a354m Chelsea star at Benfica ahead of Champions League showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p>And while Mourinho has acknowledged Chelsea will always be his \u201chome\u201d, he is planning to keep his emotions in check when he returns to the Stamford Bridge touchline with Benfica.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media ahead of the match, Mourinho said: &#8220;I am feeling home. I already played here with Spurs, Manchester United and Inter. But I am not a Blue now. I am Red. And I want to win. I am expecting two teams wanting to win. Chelsea will only play for a victory, especially after losing the first game [against Bayern Munich]. We will have to defend well to win the game. Our tactical approach is to try and win the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have Chelsea, Real Madrid and Newcastle in this competition [the Champions League]. All these games are hard. So tomorrow we have to chase the points. Our Champions League fixtures are harder than Chelsea&#8217;s games.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-ng\/lists\/jose-mourinho-admits-love-chelsea-star-benfica-champions-league\/blt0985cfc9b68994e7\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And while Mourinho has acknowledged Chelsea will always be his \u201chome\u201d, he is planning to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}