Jose Mourinho in awe over his Chelsea 'animal' trio With Mourinho taking an animated part in a training session in front of several thousand local fans, there is certainly the clear sense that the old spirit and winning mentality is being restored. Mourinho believes that he can even "smell" the progress that is being made. "We are working very hard, and day after day the players are showing they "want." If they "want," they "can" do everything. The group is good. The other six boys, when they come, I think they will find something good. They will find it and feel it. I think they will smell immediately that we are doing something. Mourinho's satisfaction with his players also extends to his first few weeks back as Chelsea manager. He again referred to himself yesterday as "the happy one" and, whenever he has been seen in Thailand over these past four days, there has invariably been a big smile on his face. The contrast with those final months at Real Madrid is obvious and Mourinho agreed yesterday when it was put to him that "his mojo" has returned. "My wife was right," he said. She is a person nobody knows and she doesn't talk about football. But she does the best she can and she told me a few times in Madrid that I needed to be happy to be able to give my best. I needed to be happy to be motivated, to spend my time organising training sessions and enjoying the sessions, to enjoy to be with the ­players outside the training sessions - and I'm having all of this here. Mourinho will also have provided reassurance to Fernando Torres, David Luiz, John Obi Mikel and Juan Mata; four players who are not in Asia and have been linked with moves away from Chelsea. "I don't want the team to sell," he said. We are very much on board and connected, me and the board and the owner. We don't need to sell players; we are happy with the group we have. I will try to close my door well so nobody leaves. There was less information on the subject of prospective additions although Branislav Ivanovic stressed that he would be happy to play alongside Luis Suárez despite infamously being bitten by Liverpool forward. Romelu Lukaku and Demba Ba will share the striker position in Bangkok today but a new centre-forward is among the transfer priorities. Mourinho, though, says he is happy with his other attacking options and revealed that 4-2-3-1 will be the preferred formation. It is my favourite system. I think it is a natural system for all these players to play. Mata is the only left-footed player we have when we want to play with a winger on the right side, so I will play him there but he can also play No10. I need to get to know him better. The competition is hard. We will have Andre Schurrle, Kevin De Bruyne, Mata, Oscar, Eden Hazard and Victor Moses for these three positions.