Reuters

Mourinho keen on Lampard and Drogba

Updated 14.49 Thu Jun 19 2008

Keywords: sport, football, chelsea, jose mourinho, premier league, frank lampard, didier drogba, deco, barcelona

Former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has confirmed he wants to sign two players from the club.

Mourinho is settling in as manager at the Italian club Inter and he revealed he would like to sign Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba from Chelsea, as well as Deco from Barcelona.

"I would love to work with them again in the future" - Jose Mourinho

Mourinho said: "I cannot forget Deco, Lampard and Drogba. These are players who I could never say no to. I would love to work with them again in the future, but I am not too obsessed with this idea. I don't know which of these three will leave their clubs but we will see."

Mourinho worked with Deco at Porto and the Portugal star is not in the future plans at Barcelona.

Lampard is entitled to buy himself out of his contract this, but Chelsea hope they can persuade him to stay by offering an improved deal.

And Drogba admitted after Mourinho left Chelsea last year that he would like to go too this summer.