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Mourinho taunts PSG players: Chelsea do not need mega win bonuses!

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho says his players are on no bonuses to beat Champions League opponents PSG tonight. Qatari owners from the mega-rich French giants will pay out £177,000 to each squad member if they knock out Chelsea tonight.

Mourinho, whose side drew 1-1 in the first leg in Paris, said: "You know, for a long, long, long time, I don't have bonuses.

"I just have bonuses to win competitions.

"So I forgot that feeling. I had that feeling, but the last time was at Porto. I never had a bonus (like that) again and I don't think we should.

"The club pay us a very good salary to do our job the best we can. We do that job as best we can.

"If we take the club into quarter-finals, semi-finals, finals, but we don't win the competition, we are doing a very good job for the club financially but I don't think we should get extra money, on top of our salaries, if we don't win the last prize.

"It's nice I think if somebody puts on the table 250,000 euros or pounds to win a certain match, it's nice.

"But I think professionalism goes above and beyond that.

"Football is about our passion for the game, the happiness and the pride of victories. They have no price."

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