The Chelsea Daily Drivel

""It's possible that we will have to play against Chelsea or Manchester United in the first match and I have not had three consecutive days on the training ground with all my players.

We need to be lucky and not have anything happen to our two strikers, Karim Benzema or Gonzalo Higuain. In an emergency I can play Cristiano Ronaldo through the middle but you lose so much from his game when he plays there. He is not a centre-forward.

Manchester United, Chelsea and Inter are already-made teams, Clubs like Manchester United, Chelsea and Inter are well established and just needed to bring in one or two players this summer. Barça are also the finished product. They play with their eyes closed. They have been together so long that they come back from their holidays and after three days of training they are ready. That is not the case for Madrid.

A team needs to adapt to a new coach, to six new players and to another way of working. What you will see against Mallorca on Sunday will not be the finished article."