Inter Milan boss Mourinho: Chelsea only need minor changes to be Euro champs

Inter Milan boss Jose Mourinho believes Chelsea are only minor changes away from winning the Champions League.

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is reported to be planning wholesale changes this summer after they were knocked out of the European Cup last week by Mourinho’s Inter Milan.

But Mourinho said: “They don’t need to change much.

“This is a great team with great professionals with people in a great age.

“They don’t have a Zanetti like I have, they don’t have a Toldo like I have, a Materazzi. They don’t have 36, 37, 38-year-old players.

“They are in a perfect age, the age of experience, the age of everything, so they can do it.

“It is difficult to say what they need. We — when I say we, I say Chelsea — lost a semi-final with a goal that was not a goal, we lost a semi-final on penalties.

“They lost a final with a penalty that if they scored they win the competition.

“Last year they lost against Barcelona in a game which should have had three ­penalties for them.

“I think in the last years for Chelsea this one was the year when they can say ‘We lost against a team that was better than us’.”