“We are going to embrace playing in Europe, We don’t see it as a reward or a prize, we see it as an exciting competition that we want to do well in. For that we need the right numbers and we need the right continuity in the squad.”
The Blues will face Leicester City twice in the next few weeks, once in a pre-season friendly in Thailand on July 2 7, then again on the opening day of the new Premier League season on August 16.
Martinez aims to have new faces in before each fixture.
“It will be a mixture,” he added. “I think we will get a couple of players before we go to Thailand then there will be a couple before the Leicester game on August 16. There are decisions on young players we need to take as they are thrown into the first team. I will never stop a young players having an opportunity by rushing to bring a player in.
We have done our work in terms of identifying the players we want, the positions that we need to cover and the positions where we need to improve the competition and we are going to do that. I am quite relaxed about it.”
Maybe Traore and Basic before squad goes to Thailand, then Lukaku and one other before the start of the season ?