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The 24-year-old has signed a new four-year deal with the Blues before sealing a switch to Slaven Bilic’s side where he will spend the rest of the season

Chelsea winger Victor Moses has joined West Ham on a season-long loan, after signing a new four-year deal with the Blues.

The 24-year-old has spent the last two seasons on loan at Liverpool and Stoke City and has now made the move to Slaven Bilic’s side for the rest of the campaign.

Moses joined Chelsea from Wigan Athletic in 2012 and has gone on to make 44 appearances for the Blues, scoring 10 times.

He becomes the Hammers’ second deadline day signing, joining Alex Song at Upton Park after the midfielder agreed to return to the club for a second loan spell from Barcelona.

The Brazil international has no idea whether a deal to sign the 21-year-old will be completed before Tuesday’s deadline but believes he would be an asset to Jose Mourinho

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EXCLUSIVE         By Gabriel Pazini 

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John Stones is a reliable defender who would strengthen Jose Mourinho’s squad as Chelsea look to get their ailing Premier League title defence back on track, according to Brazil international Willian.

The 21-year-old saw a transfer request rejected by Everton last week and Roberto Martinez remains bullish over his desire to keep his prized asset at Goodison Park for at least another season.

Everton have already rebuffed three formal bids from Chelsea for Stones and while he admits he has no idea whether a deal will be done before Tuesday’s deadline, Willian believes the promising Englishman would be an asset at Stamford Bridge.

“He is a good defender,” Willian told Goal. “I heard some news – of course there is nothing concrete, but I’ve heard about it.

“It is obvious that he is a good defender, but we do not know yet whether he will come or not. But we also have good defenders here in our team.

“Last season, our defenders did an excellent season, but he is a reliable defender, so, if he comes, he will surely come to help us and to strengthen us even more.”

An underwhelming four points from their first four Premier League matches means Chelsea already trail title rivals Manchester City by eight points this season, but Willian is confident that the Blues have plenty of time to repair the damage.

“Oh, it’s just the beginning,” he added. “The beginning is always difficult, although we have not started the way we wanted.

“The Premier League is always difficult. I think that lots of things are about to happen. We are still at the beginning of the championship, we have many games ahead and I hope that we can achieve a sequence of victories.”

The Brazil under-23 forward will spend his fourth successive year on loan away from Stamford Bridge after joining the Championship outfit until the end of the season

Chelsea attacker Lucas Piazon has agreed a season-long loan deal with second-tier Reading.

The 21-year-old, who has featured just once for the Blues since his move from Sao Paulo in 2011, will join up with former Chelsea player and coach Steve Clarke, now in charge at the Madejeski Stadium.

The Brazilian spent last season on loan at Bundesliga outfit Eintracht Frankfurt and has picked up further experience of European competition with previous short-term deals with Vitesse in the Netherlands and with La Liga’s Malaga.

The youngster made 23 appearances in Germany last year and scored on two occasions.

The former Lille man won the PFA Player of the Year award last season but the Blues manager has hinted that the Belgian needs to return to his previous level

Jose Mourinho has suggested that Eden Hazard must improve his performance level after Chelsea slipped to a shock 2-1 loss to Crystal Palace at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.

Goals from Bakary Sako and Joel Ward gave the Eagles all three points on Mourinho’s 100th home game in charge of the club – with Alan Pardew’s men inflicting only the second defeat at Stamford Bridge of the Portuguese’s Blues reign.

Mourinho has hinted that Hazard – who won the PFA Player of the Year award last season – and a number of senior players must start performing after the Blues’ stuttering start to their title defence, having taken just four points from four games thus far.  

“If you are the best player in the league, I think it should be a good responsibility to have a similar season than in the previous season,” he said.

“I don’t want to analyse individual performances. In general terms, it is difficult to have a consistent performance when some of the players are not performing at a good level.

“When you have six or seven performing and three or four who are not at an acceptable level, it is hard for a team to be consistent in the performance.”

Mourinho insists that he will work day and night to ensure that Chelsea return to form in the coming weeks, but says it would be “sad” if his players were demotivated.

“For myself, I feel the opposite. When I win, I want to win again, I want to win more. I feel fantastic motivation for more,” he added.

“If you win it once and the next you are not on fire, not ready for at least to fight for more, that is sad.

“You have players who have fantastic seasons and fantastic moments and the next season do not have the same.

“If you ask me: ‘Will I accept this, cross my arms, sit in a nice chair and wait calmly for the performance level to be back?’ No.

“I have to work, react, analyse and if I feel the players are not in conditions to react and give more, I have to make changes. I have never had a problem with that.”

The Blues have put up a poor start to their Premier League title defence but their manager will be unable to work on fixing it while most of his squad leave for two weeks

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho is set for a fortnight of frustration following his side’s home defeat by Crystal Palace.

The reigning Premier League champions’ shaky start to the 2015-16 season continued on Saturday as Alan Pardew’s Eagles claimed a shock 2-1 victory through goals from Bakary Sako and Joel Ward.

Chelsea have taken just four points from as many matches, in sharp contrast to the impressive form that they displayed in the early weeks of the previous campaign.

And Mourinho hinted at exasperation as he looked ahead to September’s international break, which will see the majority of his players link up with their respective countries.

“Because of the international break, the next match [against Everton] is in 15 days,” the Portuguese told reporters.

“I don’t know what happens in 15 days; every player goes away with their national team and I stay for two weeks with four players.

“I can’t work, I can’t improve. At this moment, I can’t do anything during these two weeks to improve my team.”