Chelsea players threatened with transfers after defeat to Crystal Palace

JOSE MOURINHO has hinted he will instigate a squad overhaul after Chelsea's 2-1 defeat to Crystal Palace yesterday.

Chelsea - Most Expensive Transfers

The Premier League champions boast just four points from their opening four games of the new season.

Mourinho has had a relatively quiet summer transfer window - bringing in four players and offloading six - although 27 have also gone out on loan.

And the manager suggested after that other players may be replaced, with Tuesday's transfer deadline looming.

"If a player is not performing, there are two ways to look at it," Mourinho said.

"The first one is that I trust the player so much that I will wait for the improvement.

"You wait, wait, and wait and maybe it comes or it doesn't come.

"Or, even when you are trusting the player, (there) arrives a moment when you think, 'I have to change'. And I can go both ways.

"Because of the international break, the next match is in 15 days.

Jose Mourinho at ChelseaGETTY

Jose Mourinho's Chelsea side lost 2-1 to Crystal Palace yesterday

"I don't know what happens in 15 days... every player goes away with their national team and I stay for two weeks with four players.

"I can't work, I can't improve. At this moment, I can't do anything during these two weeks to improve my team."

he will not seek to add more players to his squad, having signed Barcelona's Pedro and Baba Rahman from Augsburg for a combined £42.7million earlier this month.

Would you like to receive news notifications from Daily Express?