Mourinho hopes for instant success from new names

Jose Mourinho hopes that new Chelsea signings Andre Schurrle and Marco Van Ginkel will have an instant impact. The Blues completed deals for the forward and midfielder last month.

Marco Van Ginkel arrived from Vitesse Arnhem whilst Schurrle joined from Bayer Leverkusen. There is some uncertainty regarding how much first team football both will take part in, but it appears Mourinho is ready to play them both in the first team next year.


"Andre Schurrle is still so young but he already has great history because he plays in his national team, he has played Champions League and he played three complete seasons for Bayer Leverkusen," Mourinho said.


"He is a player who is absolutely ready and he gives us more than one position in attack and adds quality. He will be important for us.


"Marco van Ginkel is one of the best prospects. He is not yet like Schurrle - close to being a finished product - but he is a player with great potential.


"Of course he needs to play and he will, because he is a player with great potential and physically he is more than ready. He is a natural athlete. By the technical and the tactical point of view of course he is a kid, he has to learn, but I think he is very open-minded and we analysed him for quite a long time.


"The Chelsea scouting department did it for quite a long time and I did it in the last five or six months, and we made a collective decision to bring the kid here."