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Chelsea boss Mourinho delighted with Baba, Pedro deals

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho is pleased with their captures of Pedro and Abdul Rahman Baba.

Spain winger Pedro arrives from Barcelona, while Ghana fullback Baba joins from Augsburg. "New players are always welcome so obviously I'm happy both of them have come to us. I know the Premier League doesn't start tomorrow, it started two weeks ago, but people used to call it the transfer window, I sometimes call it the opportunity window," said Mourinho.


"While the window is open there is always an opportunity. Its dangerous because every team can lose players at a moment when nobody wants to, but at the same time it's an opportunity to get players until the last moment and this week we got a very good, young left-back that we need, with potential we believe can be developed, and we got one of the best attacking players in the world, a player with lots of experience and with something I really like very much, which is the desire to leave a giant club, one of the best clubs in the world, a club that normally players don't want to leave.

"For a player like him, who is loved by the club and who loves the club, he wanted to leave because he wants something more for his career and that's evidence of his ambition."

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