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How do you feel now that you are a champion?

"I am really very happy, but I think the shirt is important. The front of the shirt. The trophy is very important for the club. Then is less important the back of the shirt, the name of the players and the name of the coach.

"Of course the trophy is very important for us because our feeling was we deserved to win. We were in trouble in January and February, then reacted. The Premier League is not easy to react in because the level is really very high. In the end we got into the Champions League through the Premier League – not easy.

"We played the final in the League Cup and qualified against Liverpool and Tottenham, the finalists in the Champions League. Then we lost on penalties against Manchester City.

"In the Europa League we played 15 matches and won 12 games, and drew three. So I think we deserved to win the Europa League. It's very important for me, but very important for us.

"I'm really very happy with my players. Something changed at the beginning of February. We lost 6-0 in Manchester against City, but we started something different. And so my feeling is we deserved to win."

Big change in the second half, what did you say to the players at half-time?

"My feeling in the first half was that the match was really very difficult. It was match number 64 of the season. On the pitch it was hot, so it was really physically very difficult to play. But my feeling from the bench is we were trying to manage the result.

"At half-time, I asked my players to play with more courage. Also if we could risk to lose, but I wanted a team with more courage to move the ball better. I think that the players did it very well in the second half.

"We played very good football against very difficult opponents. In the offensive phase they are really very dangerous, and on the counter, but we played very good football and the match was good also for the fans, I think."

Hazard said it was time to go, how long have you known that would happen and what is your own future?

"As you know, Hazard is a wonderful player, but you have to spend two or three months to understand him as a man. But when you are able to understand him as a man, he's a wonderful man.

"I knew. I knew that Eden wanted to leave, of course. But, as I said in every press conference, I wanted to respect his decision. And now I have to speak to my club.

"The season is finished one hour ago. Tomorrow, I will begin to speak with my club, with the owner, with a director, with Marina... I don't know. We need to speak like at any club at the end of th season.

"We need to know what the club can do for me, and what I can do better for the club. Also the club need to speak to me. Then, after a couple of days, I will decide. I have a contract so, at the moment, we are talking about nothing."

Can you confirm you want to stay in the Premier League with Chelsea?

"You know very well that I love the Premier League, the level of the competition. I am lucky because I am in Chelsea, one of the best teams, one of the best clubs in the Premier League in the best championship in the world. So, at the moment, I am happy.

"But, of course, I want to know if the club are happy. If we can improve. That's normal, I think. But I do a discussion with the owner, the president, the director after every season in every club, so I think it's normal."

Do you think now you deserve to stay at Chelsea?

“I think so, but it's only my opinion. My opinion is not enough.”

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