Mourinho calls for FFP control

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho insists clubs that breach Financial Fair Play regulations should be docked points and should not be champions in a thinly veiled attack on Premier League title rivals Manchester City.

Man City and Chelsea's Champions League last-16 opponents, Paris St Germain were issued heavy fines by UEFA for their outlandish spending in recent years.

Chelsea are bidding to comply with FFP and made a profit for the third successive transfer window despite signing Colombia World Cup star Juan Cuadrado on Monday's deadline day.

"I enjoy the challenge of the English competition," said Mourinho. "It's a good challenge. The only thing that it is not nice is that you compete against the ones (clubs) who don't follow the same rules."

"That's the only problem. I don't think - and it's happened before - a team can be champions when you are punished because you didn't comply with Financial Fair Play."

City were fined £49 million last May, after winning the 2013/14 title, for infringing FFP regulations, but made the biggest English outlay of the transfer window in spending £25m plus add-ons for striker Wilfried Bony.

Asked what the penalty should be, Mourinho said: "Points. Of course. I don't know (how many)."

It is not the first time the Portuguese has spoken of City's spending.

Chelsea sold Andre Schurrle to Wolfsburg for a reported £8m profit, allowing them to buy Cuadrado from Fiorentina.

The sale of Ryan Bertrand to Southampton for a reported fee of £10m allowed the Blues to make a profit once again.

Mourinho added,"Our work to keep the team strong, with possibility to compete against the ones financially more powerful or against the ones who don't care and don't respect Financial Fair Play... we had to work very, very hard."

"In my area, I tried to do that. Analysing the players we can sell and those we can buy. But when it goes to numbers, it goes completely out of my control. Total credit to the people who deserve credit in that area." ...SkySports