Jose Mourinho expressed his happiness at the three new signings made by Chelsea as the Portuguese embarks on his second adventure as Blues manager.

Chelsea have signed two exciting youngsters in Andre Schurrle and Marco Van Ginkel, while confirming the capture of veteran goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer on a free transfer a couple of days back.

Mourinho is looking forward to working with the new faces as Chelsea head to Asia for a preseason tour.

"Andre Schurrle is still so young but he already has great history because he plays in his national team, he has played Champions League and he played three complete seasons for Leverkusen," Mourinho told the club's official website.

"So he is a player who is absolutely ready and he gives us more than one position in attack and adds quality. He will be important for us.

"Marco van Ginkel is one of the best prospects. He is not yet like Schurrle -- close to being a finished product -- but he is a player with great potential.

"Of course he needs to play and he will, because he is a player with great potential and physically he is more than ready. He is a natural athlete.

"By the technical and the tactical point of view of course he is a kid, he has to learn, but I think he is very open-minded and we analysed him for quite a long time."

Schwarzer, at 40, cannot be considered young by any stretch of the imagination, with the Australian international brought to Stamford Bridge to act as a backup to Petr Cech, something that Mourinho believes he is perfectly capable of doing.

"Mark Schwarzer is what we need," he added. "I never say this one is the first choice and this one is the second and this one is the third, but of course as a starting point Petr Cech is Petr Cech -- he is the best in the world with deference to all the others and Mark knows that he comes to be an important member of the squad.

"To compete with Petr and to give us in that position what we have in any other position where we have competition and options, giving protection to each other.

"With Mark we have a goalkeeper who has played an incredible number of matches in the last 10 years in the Premier League and he is more than ready for this."

Mourinho will also welcome back several players who were loaned out to various clubs last season, with the former Real Madrid and Inter Milan manager expecting big things from the likes of Kevin De Bruyne, Romelu Lukaku and Tomas Kalas.

"They are good players with a very good value in the market and we have these players this season for free, after an investment that the club did before," Mourinho said.