"I don't remember playing as well and enjoying the football [as much as I am now]," Fabregas told reporters. "I've played in World Cup finals, European Championship finals, Champions League finals with great teams.
"I am not saying West Bromwich Albion or Schalke were the best games in which I've played – probably they weren't – but definitely they were games I enjoyed a lot. I feel right now I am playing the best football of my career.
"When I chose this challenge it's because I felt it could be this way but I didn't come here to just play well and that's it. I came to win trophies and, if I could play well and enjoy myself, all the better.
"There will be games I cannot enjoy myself the way I am now because other teams will approach games differently but the most important thing for me is we know what we are doing: when we defend, when we attack, when we have to slow the pace, go quicker. We are being composed, mature, disciplined, and are playing very well."
Chelsea's 5-0 victory over Schalke on Tuesday ensured their qualification for the knockout stages of the Champions League at the top of Group G with a game to spare.
Fabregas again starred for the Blues in the win and has put his rich vein of form down to the way in which he has been deployed in the heart of the midfield by Mourinho.
"This is my best position, 100 per cent," he enthused. "I feel more in control of the game: I touch the ball all the time; I feel happy; I go and get the ball from here, from there; I can go forward and Oscar drops deep. So I feel free, I feel confident, I feel in control and that's what I like the most in football.
"Sometimes in the last three or four years in the national team and Barcelona, I was playing like a No.9. I have to do it for the team and I enjoy it, it's all good, but here where I am playing is where I enjoy playing my football the most."
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