JOSE Mourinho has hinted he is unlikely to make a move for Aston Villa striker Christian Benteke – in spite of his admission that the Blues need another marksmen.

Benteke was on target for Villa at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night and was a handful for the Blues' defence, but the Chelsea boss who he described as 'a special player, with special qualities.'

“He's a great player,” Mourinho said. “But he's a great player for a certain style of football and we try to play a different style of football. We try to play the way we did against Hull.

“In this moment, we are scoring enough goals to win our matches and I try to put all my three strikers more or less on the pitch for the same amount of time and they did their work, all three. They fought hard and opened spaces for the team.”

The Blues will not be making a third bid for Wayne Rooney ahead of Monday's meeting with Manchester United at old Trafford.

“I don't want Chelsea to do it before we go there and everybody in the board agrees. There is time to do things and we will do later, but I think this period from the ethical point of view we are going to be quiet and thinking just about that game.”

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