'Have to think about top 6'

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho said a top-six Premier League finish may be the best his side can hope for after their suffering their eighth consecutive defeat.

Chelsea went down to Bournemouth by a  solitary goal on late Saturday.

Mourinho had previously insisted that Chelsea were still capable of breaking into the top four, but he admitted that he might have to revise his objectives after the latest abject result.

"Before this game it was realistic to think that our quality would take us out of this position, but maybe now we have to think about top six," he said.

"I am concerned, of course. There is no chance that Chelsea will be fighting relegation. That is not the problem. It is that our objective is to finish top four."

"If you analyse matches, and especially match after match, you can clearly identify a few players for whom it is difficult to be consistent," he said.

"To get results, you have to be consistent, and we have not been consistent because of some individualities."

Despite their suffering however, Jose Mourinho remains adamant to make good on his promise and will not ask Roman Abramovich for money for emergency signings in January.  "Again I feel that we don't have the right to ask the club for players," said Mourinho.

"We started this season with this squad and the players have to do better. It is more about the players having to do better than the club going to the market.

"People must feel responsibilities. The club is the club, the owner and the board -- they are not responsible for the bad moment. The bad moment is my responsibility and the players' responsibility," Mourinho concluded.