• 'We're an improvement on Mourinho's first year' says defender
Present squad have 'more quality' players
Ricardo Carvalho has said the current Chelsea team coached by Carlo Ancelotti are better than the 2004-05 side fashioned by José Mourinho in his first season at Stamford Bridge, when the club won their first league title for 50 years.
Carvalho was the first signing of the Portuguese coach, arriving with him from the then European champions, Porto, in the summer of 2004. He became an integral part of a formidable team under Mourinho that lost only once in the Premier League, while conceding just 15 goals as Chelsea ran away with the title.
Carvalho, though, is convinced that since Ancelotti arrived in west London in the summer, succeeding the caretaker coach Guus Hiddink, the Italian has already transformed Chelsea into the strongest team since the club began winning trophies under Mourinho.
"In this moment we are an improvement even from that first year here under Mourinho," the 31-year-old told the Chelsea website. "Of course then we were compact and everyone was fighting but now I think we have more quality in the squad, maybe. Or at least different players, playing in a different system and style.
"Then it was 4-3-3 with wingers and now it is 4-4-2 with two strikers, so it is different but we are in a very good shape.
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