The Blues boss has spent heavily in the last two pre-season transfer windows but has had to sell first to make up for the outlay and in turn conform with UEFA’s Financial Fair Play rules.
They have sold big-name players in recent transfer windows, with David Luiz (£50million), Romalu Lukaku (£28m), Andre Schurrle (£22m) and Juan Mata (£37m) just some of the names exiting the club since Mourinho’s return in 2013.
In return, the boss has brought in Diego Costa, Juan Cuadrado, Felipe Luis, Willian, Nemanja Match, Cesc Fabregas, Kurt Zouma and others for a estimated £185m in under 24 months.
And Mourinho insists the days of totally frivolous spending at Stamford Bridge are over.
“Our transfer policy doesn’t need a lot of funds because we don’t need a lot of things.
“We like our squad, we like our players, with a couple of exceptions we have a young squad.
“Once more I think our transfer policy will be nice and quiet and (changes) will be a consequence of the players we sell and the funds that we make with the players that we sell.
“I think we get great credibility with the players we sell because we sell great players.
“I’m happy with the squad I have. If you ask me zero movements in or out I saw I don’t believe that, because you always want to improve there are always a couple of changes to be made. I’m not worried about funds because we are fine.”
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Chelsea have just 10 games left in the Premier League this season
Regarding future transfers, Mourinho shied away from discussing a potential £80m bid for Juventus ace Paul Pogba and instead revealed 19-year-old Ruben Loftus-Cheek will step up to become a first-team regular next campaign.
Loftus-Cheek has made just two appearances all season for the Chelsea and Mourinho outlined why that is the case.
He said: “I don’t think about Pogba or other players. The only thing I can tell you is that you look to our midfield players and between Fabregas, Matic, Ramires, Ruben and (John Obi) Mikel we have a good group.
“And I believe a lot in Ruben and I repeat next season the squad will be made in a way where Ruben is not a number, where he is a player to compete for a position.
“I think Ruben next season will be not just a first-team player like he is at the moment, he will be a player to play and compete for a position.
“I don’t do it now because I don’t think it’s a good moment to do it. It’s the moment for his evolution, to protect him.
“At the moment we think it’s best to go with the players with more experience, who have played for a long time and have lots of experience.
“Ruben is a player that next season I expect him, not just to play a few times, but I expect him to compete for a place in the team.”
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While Mourinho is keeping one eye on the transfer market, he is also keenly aware of the chasing pack in the Premier League.
Chelsea lead the division by six points over Manchester City, with third-place Arsenal a point further back and Manchester United eight points away in fourth.
Liverpool (fifth) are 10 points behind but Mourinho insists even the Reds cans still win the title this season.
“I think it’s still five because the distance is still mathematically possible,” he said.
“Obviously fifth place and fourth place, they don’t have to fight against one team but three.
"So normally you would say the first three (are in the race) but the reality is that the distance between two and three, three and four, four and five is so short that I look at them and mathematically I see that things are open.
“The advantage is significant but there is still a long way to go.
“We are there, we are strong, we are confident. We believe in our capacity to stay there until the last match.”
“But we know, and I think it’s good to know, because if we know we fight against that word you use ‘complacency’ and I think the best way to fight against that is to know there is a long the way to go, there are difficult matches and difficult opponents.”
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One factor that could swing the title race in Chelsea’s favour, it appears, is fatigue.
Mourinho believes his players are not suffering from the gruelling effects of 44 games already played this campaign.
Instead, he thinks the squad will be able to cope with their remaining 10 league games and that their Champions League exit will only make them stronger on the domestic front.
He said: “The other teams can still make 27 points, so I need 22.
“To be honest with you I would prefer to have 20 points more. I would enjoy it much more if we had 20 points more. This is normal, a good situation for us.
“Chelsea won three Premier League titles and people know that number clearly but you can analyse in a different way, which is in the last nine years we’ve won it once, so it’s not easy to win.
“In these nine years Chelsea were never in the lead as much as these six points we have over second place.
“We have a good situation in our hands and the way we worked last week and this week I think the players are very confident.
“I think the tendency in our team is to improve towards the end of the season.
“Normally in this period the normal tendency is for other teams to accumulate fatigue and stress in big matches and in the Champions League.
“Our situation gives us space to work, space to improve — not a cumulation of fatigue. We will end the season in a very strong way.”
