Monday, June 17

Mourinho loves a Goalscorer

We had a feeling that Mourinho's return to Chelsea might shake up the way the Blues play and after a long hard pour through team and player statistic we think might be right. We looked at Chelsea's stats over the last 10 seasons and Real Madrid and Inter Milan's from when Jose was in charge (data source: ESPN).



Last season's FPL saw Juan Mata and Eden Hazard both do great for your teams, whilst striker Torres suffered further ignominy and ridicule. 

With Mourinho back at the helm we expect him to buy a dominant striker and set the team up to play to that strength. He likes his players to play their role and that means the striker to score goals. We'd love this to be Lukaku but with millions to spend he may as well go out and buy someone and Edison Cavani's name on the back of a Chelsea shirt would see us prepared to stump up £10-11m or so of our FPL budget come August, leaving Mata to pick up assists for our rival's teams.