Mourinho: 'I am red and I want to win' | OneFootball

José Mourinho has said that he is a red, not a blue ahead of Tuesday evening's Champions League clash with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

The Benfica manager was quick to reassure Chelsea fans that he still had love for the club though.

"Of course I will always be a blue," Mourinho said in his pre-match press conference.

"I'm part of their history and they are part of mine. I helped them to become bigger Chelsea and they helped me to become a bigger José."

"When I say I'm not a blue, I'm talking about the job I have to do tomorrow. There are not many clubs that do these pictures. There is a fear in many clubs about what happened in the past. Sometimes it looks like they want to delete people who made history in the clubs. This shows Chelsea are a big club."

Mourinho did give his views on modern day Chelsea as a club though: "Honestly, I don't know the model. I never studied their model. There was a set period where myself, from the outside, was putting some question marks [on it] because it looked like Chelsea had lost their identity as a club. But what happened in the last season got things back on track.

"They gave trust to Enzo [Maresca] and gave his ideas. He's fitted in well with the philosophy of the club."

"Chelsea is a winning machine that had in the past two or three years a moment without trophies, but Chelsea won something before my time, and then they stopped winning and then my team started winning. Chelsea is a winning machine."

Mourinho has faced Chelsea several times before during his stints with Internazionale, Manchester United, and Tottenham Hotspur. The Portuguese manager has a poor record against his former club though, winning four, drawing three, and losing seven in all competitions.