Jose Mourinho believes he will have failed Chelsea if they do not win the Champions League before his contract runs out in 2010.
The 42-year-old manager is already revered among the fans for his achievements last season but he feels unfulfilled after Chelsea's semi-final defeat by Liverpool in Europe's premier club competition in May.
Chelsea failed to spark without Damien Duff and a fully fit Arjen Robben and lost 1-0 on aggregate - their second semi-final defeat in 12 months, having been beaten by Monaco the previous year when Claudio Ranieri was in charge.
Mourinho insists that for a club of Chelsea's resources there are no excuses for not winning the trophy in the next five years and admits he should be blamed if they do not succeed.
"It is part of our project for the next five years to win things, repeat successes we did before and win what we didn't, so the Champions League is part of that project," he said. "I would consider it a failure if Chelsea haven't won the Champions League in those five years.
"To a guy like me a semi-final is not good enough. When I reached a semi-final for the first time I was very, very happy, when at Porto I played against Lazio for the Uefa Cup. But after winning that I played the final and we won. The next season there was another semi-final and I won, and then played the final and won.
"I have a five-year contract with Chelsea because I want to participate in their plan to make Chelsea a bigger club than when I arrived. I think when you are in a big club like Chelsea and you don't win it after one year or two years that's football, but you cannot be unlucky every season."
Mourinho would join Fabio Capello, Ottmar Hitzfeld and Ernst Happel in winning the competition with two different clubs, but he reveals the source of his motivation lies elsewhere.
"Those managers have this but they don't have Uefa Cup and Champions League in two consecutive years," he said. "My motivation is not to beat records, my motivation is to just win and win for my team.
"The problem is that it is a habit. We are animals of habit and I have a very bad habit. Two consecutive years I won European competitions so sometimes you think to yourself I've done it twice, I can do it the third time."
Inter Milan have reversed their controversial decision to cancel their tour of England. The about-turn came after British sports minister Richard Caborn held talks with his Italian counterpart to persuade the Serie A club to change their minds.
A refusal by the Italians to tour would have been embarrassing for the British government as it attempted to give the impression of normality in Britain after the suicide bombings in London.
Yesterday afternoon the Milan club confirmed the tour was back on. Inter will play Leicester City today, Crystal Palace on Wednesday, Norwich City on Friday and Portsmouth on July 31st.
The nerazzurri had already organised an alternative schedule, against Mallorca, Red Star Belgrade and Treviso. Their decision to cancel their English games had brought widespread condemnation. London's mayor Ken Livingstone said the decision played into the hands of the terrorists, and Palace chairman Simon Jordan said he was contemplating legal action.
Leicester, too, were investigating the possibility of compensation - Inter's decision would have cost them more than £250,000 - and Portsmouth had already sold 12,500 tickets for their game. Inter were also condemned by several Italian newspapers.
Yet there was another nervous reaction to the terrorist threat in Darlington on Saturday when Middlesbrough's friendly there was abandoned at half-time. A statement from police said: "At about 15.38 a telephone call was received from a man suggesting there was a bomb within Darlington's football stadium. As a result of that call a decision was made to evacuate the ground."
