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Jose Mourinho has vowed he wants to dominate the new season - and lay the platform for a Blue decade.

The Chelsea boss steps up his pre-season preparations when his side meet RZ Pellets in Klagenfurt, Austria on Wednesday.

Summer signings Diego Costa, Cesc Fabregas and Filipe Luis have now joined the Chelsea squad at their Austrian base as the shape of Stamford Bridge things to come begins to emerge.

And a belligerent and bullish Mourinho set out his ambitions for the coming campaign as he made clear he will not settle for second-best again.

Mourinho said: "If I didn't think we would win the Premier League I would go home and let somebody else take charge of the team.

"At Chelsea, if we didn't think we could win the league, or didn't think we had the quality to do it, we wouldn't be here working so hard.

"Last year we reached the semi-finals of the Champions League - and it was a transitional season.

"A team which has been a winning team for 10 seasons is changing step by step.

"We had a very young team at the time but, even so, we reached the semi-finals and were playing to win the competition.

"This summer we've bought new players and we are trying to build for the next decade.

"And this season we think we are going to be stronger. The younger players are more experienced, they are stable and better adapted to fighting for titles.

"You look around, to Spain, Germany and elsewhere in England, teams are getting stronger, spending big amounts of money and trying to sign the best possible players."

Mourinho's return to Stamford Bridge and big-money outlays in both transfer windows, could not bring silverware last season.

Chelsea finished last term in third place, four points behind Manchester City and two off Liverpool.

That came despite picking up maximum points against both the teams that finished above them, with late-season defeats at the hands of Aston Villa, Crystal Palace and Sunderland proving costly.

This time round, Mourinho again envisages a six-horse race for the crown, with Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United having already splashed the cash as well as Chelsea.

The Blues boss added: "People can speak about other leagues but England is the only country where five or six teams can win the title.

"Football is about competitiveness every weekend and that only happens in the Premier League.

"When you have the two Manchester clubs, the three clubs from London - Tottenham, Arsenal and ourselves - plus Liverpool, that's six top teams, where all of them can win the title. That's why everybody loves the Premier League."

The tour, which sees Chelsea play subsequent games in Slovenia, Holland and Germany, has already signalled a new reality.

Youngsters Lewis Baker, Nathan Chalobah, Isaiah Brown, Jeremie Boga and Patrick Bamford are hoping to convince Mourinho of their value with the Portuguese aware he needs to promote from the academy ranks to fill the gaps in his squad after the departures of David Luiz, Demba Ba, Ashley Cole, Frank Lampard and Tomas Kalas.

While Fabregas will count as a "home-grown" player under UEFA regulations, Chelsea's Champions League squad is likely to be short of the 25-man maximum, with Romelu Lukaku, Victor Moses, Ryan Bertrand and Josh McEachran all likely to go by the end of the transfer window.

Mourinho added: "We don't want a squad of only ended products.

"We also want to bring to the first team, three or four under-21s. We are going to develop players and are happy with this balance we have."