jose mourinho has come out swinging after a week in which chelsea suffered a desperate champions league exit, by declaring he is still the special one days after facing a barrage of criticism for the manner of chelsea’s defeat by paris saint germain, mourinho has hit back by bragging that there are a mere handful of managers around the world who can measure up to him jose mourinho insists he is still the special one despite champions league exit at hands of psg  ‘when i compare myself with other managers i see just a few that are with me in terms of success,’ he said ‘the others i see a huge distance’ it was a defiant broadside from the colourful portuguese boss, who vowed that wednesday’s disaster against ten man psg — in which his team were branded ‘babies’ — will simply spark a premier league title charge chelsea players were described as babies after surrounding bjorn kuipers during champions league clash  porto (2002–2004) primeira liga: 2002–03, 2003–04  taça de portugal: 2002–03  supertaça cândido de oliveira: 2003  uefa champions league: 2003–04  uefa cup: 2002–03  chelsea (2004–2007, 2013–) premier league: 2004–05, 2005–06  fa cup: 2006–07  football league cup: 2004–05, 2006–07, 2014–15  fa community shield: 2005  inter milan (2008–2010) serie a: 2008–09, 2009–10  coppa italia: 2009–10  supercoppa italiana: 2008  uefa champions league: 2009–10  real madrid (2010–2013) la liga: 2011–12  copa del rey: 2010–11  supercopa de españa: 2012  ‘with chelsea, i lost against barcelona in the last 16 and we were champions that season,’ he said ‘it was a fantastic season for us ‘i think it’s the target for everyone, all the big teams at the beginning of the season it’s the main target if you can win that, i think it’s fantastic’ speaking before burnley beat manchester city on saturday, mourinho added: ‘i think we need nine victories; 11 matches if our direct opponents lose a couple of points, then you need eight victories and one draw or something like that’ asked about the prospect of winning a third champions league title, having already won it at porto and inter, mourinho said: ‘it is wrong to assume that people are too worried about me they don’t know what my happiness is ‘my happiness, first of all, is when i compare myself with the other managers this is not a fight with them and i have lots of respect for all of them 'but in the premier league, who is european champion? me and van gaal in the premier league, how many has won it twice or more than twice? mr wenger and myself how many has won every competition in this country? how many? ‘you go to europe, how many won seven league titles? how many has won two champions leagues? carlo ancelotti has won three and pep guardiola has two you are too worried about me mourinho kisses the uefa champions league trophy after his porto side beat monaco 3 0  mourinho lifts the uefa champions league trophy following inter milan's victory against bayern munich  mourinho holds aloft the barclays premiership trophy beside frank lampard  and john terry  mourinho and terry hug after winning the capital one cup against tottenham hotspur at wembley stadium  mourinho and steve clarke celebrate with the trophy following their team's victory against arsenal  ‘in the league, we can count the victories we need on the fingers of two hands — one month ago we couldn’t do that, we didn’t have enough fingers 'there will be a moment where we need five victories, we need four victories and one hand will be enough to count them 'i think this is a good way to do it don’t think about man city, don’t think about arsenal just think about us' mourinho celebrates in style as chelsea beat tottenham to win the capital one cup at wembley 
jose mourinho chelsea stamford bridge champions league southampton sunday
jose mourinho has hit back following criticism for champions league exit  mourinho claims only a handful of managers in the world can match him  special one insists exit will just help chelsea forge on in the title race  chelsea face southampton at stamford bridge on sunday 