Florentino Perez would like Jose Mourinho back at Real Madrid, says Guillem Balague

Real Madrid president Florentino Perez would like Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho back at some point, according to Sky Sports' Spanish football expert Guillem Balague.

Mourinho and Blues midfielder Eden Hazard have been linked with Real Madrid by both the English and Spanish press, following a run of three wins from Chelsea's opening 11 Premier League matches.

The defending champions sit 15th in the table, and speculation over Mourinho's future increased in the wake of Saturday's 3-1 defeat to Liverpool at Stamford Bridge.

Balague believes Perez, who brought Mourinho to the Bernabeu in May 2010, would take the opportunity to bring the Chelsea boss back to the Spanish capital if the timing is right.

"The story is Florentino Perez would like to have Jose Mourinho back at some point," Balague told Sky Sports. "It might not be soon or in the immediate future, but at some point he sees it may just coincide that Mourinho is looking for this kind of thing and Real Madrid the same.

"Will it happen? Who knows, but all I'm saying is Perez thinks it may be a good idea in the future. But I don't believe at all that Hazard is a target for Real Madrid."

In his Sky Sports Q&A, Balague also said that there's "no truth whatsoever" in the rumours that summer signing Pedro could return to Barcelona in the January transfer window. After a goal and assist in his opening two league games for Chelsea, the Spain international has managed just one strike since - in Chelsea's 4-1 Capital One Cup third round win over Walsall - and he has not provided another assist.

Without a win since their 2-0 victory over Aston Villa on October 17, Chelsea welcome Dynamo Kiev to Stamford Bridge on Wednesday evening with their hopes of Champions League qualification to the knock-out round also in the balance.

The Blues are third in Group G at the half-way stage, a point behind their Ukrainian opponents and three points off table-toppers Porto.