Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino has revealed his objectives for the season.

Pochettino told Chelsea’s official website: “The objective is to win because football is about winning. We will have good times, create good relationships, have a nice environment and relationship with people, but the most important thing in the end is to win.

“If you win, it helps develop all the other things. Football is about results, how you achieve that is different because we are people that care about the way we achieve the results.

“But in the end, we want to win, be competitive, be animals that want to compete every week and in every game. But we need to translate before on the training ground and to train in this way.

“We need to be really tough to try to create that mentality and the feeling that we can beat anyone.”

Asked what emotions he would feel sitting in the home dugout for the first time against Liverpool after visiting Stamford Bridge several times as an opposition manager, Pochettino added:

“It’s going to be exciting but while it’s close, it’s also still far away. First, we need to meet the players, start work, then the tour in America, which is going to be unbelievable to meet all the fans.

“We will be ready for the first game against Liverpool – and it is going to be so exciting to have the first Premier League game at Stamford Bridge.

“We will face a team that’s very good in Liverpool, I know very well from the past. Now it’s important to visualise ourselves at Stamford Bridge. We know very well the stadium and we know with the fans we will create a good atmosphere.”