Chelsea Not After Yarmolenko - Mourinho

The Portuguese denied interest in the Ukrainian forward, suggesting the club have enough wingers already, and confirmed Pedro and Loic Remy will miss out

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has denied reports that he was scouting Dynamo Kyiv winger Andriy Yarmolenko when the coach watched Ukraine's defeat to Spain in Kiev last week. 

The Blues are in Ukraine for a crunch Group G clash against Dynamo, having picked up three points from their opening two games, while the hosts are top of the pile after a win and a draw so far.

And the Portuguese was in Kiev as recently as last week, with reports suggeesting the reason for his trip was to scout Yarmolenko, who has recently signed a new five-year deal with the Ukrainian league champions.

But Mourinho, speaking to the media ahead of the match with Sergei Rebrov's side,  suggested that he was not their to scout transfer targets as the club already have enough wingers. 

"Of course I wasn’t looking at [other] players," the Chelsea boss said.

"We cannot make a collection of wingers."

Ahead of the match with Dynamo, Chelsea have a number of injury worries, as Pedro and Remy have not travelled but Mourinho insisted they do not have serious problems and hinted both could be back in time for Saturday's Premier League match against West Ham.

"We have other options and it would be big risk to play them," he added.

"They both have little injuries. Nothing really important, but not possible for this game. It would be a big risk for tomorrow, so we take no risk.

"We have other options and other players. Especially because they play in positions where we really do have other options."

Pedro played 83 minutes of Saturday's 2-0 win over Aston Villa and was praised along with fellow winger Willian for his work-rate, while Remy was only a stoppage-time substitute in the same game.