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PFA Team of the Year should have consisted of all Chelsea players - Mourinho

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho suggests it should have been 11 players from his club in the PFA Team of the Year.

Six of Mourinho's stars were named in the select XI at the PFA awards on Sunday with the five remaining players being made up from other clubs.

Eden Hazard, Diego Costa, John Terry, Gary Cahill, Nemanja Matic and Branislav Ivanovic were the Blues players selected but Mourinho feels the entire team should have been from Stamford Bridge.

"There should have been more Chelsea players. All of them should have been Chelsea," he said.

"I respect every player in that team and especially everyone that chose because they have the right to choose. Great players are in that team but also eight players are outside that team.

"Just one example is Cesc Fabregas, with the season he is having, the number of assists, the quality of his game. For him not to be there is strange.

"And that team wouldn't win the Premier League. It has four defenders, Matic, and five to attack so it's impossible. It's a team without any balance and it is missing a midfield player."

The other five in the PFA Team of the Year were: Harry Kane (Tottenham), Alexis Sanchez (Arsenal), Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool), Ryan Bertrand (Southampton) and David De Gea (Manchester United).

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