Claudio reveals that he has fufilled a dream at Chelsea, with blue blood now pumping through his veins!

And he said "This club is in my veins, it is part of me. I have grown up in the last three years with this club in my blood and the team is my baby.

"I wasn't a champion as a player. A lot of people are lucky enough to manage a big team at the start, whereas I began with an amateur team, right at the bottom, and I am very satisfied because I have continued to work my way up.

"Of course everybody wants to do something better, but I enjoy Chelsea a lot. I don't think at the moment you can get much better than Chelsea. Since I arrived I always said I wanted to win the league. It is not that easy to battle against Manchester United and Arsenal. Now I hope in the spring, as Sir Alex Ferguson predicted recently, we are in there fighting.

"I want us to stay in the pack. At the moment it is not important to be top of the league, we just need to be up there with them. At the beginning I didn't think about what we could do, I just wanted to build a team and work, and the matches would show what we could do. Last December we were close to Arsenal and United but they started to win and win, whereas we drew a lot.

"This season it is so far, so good, but the league season is very long and we cannot afford to make mistakes because Arsenal and United don't make them - we have to continue in this way."

"I want an English result every time - 2-0. In Italy we say 1-0 is an Italian result and 2-0 is an English result.

"Sometimes you only score once but I would never say one is enough and defend it. Once you score one you must focus and try to score a second, then try to score a third.''

Wise words from "The Tinkerman"!