Mourinho’s appointment – 2004
After 12 months of his Chelsea adventure and eye-watering sums of money having been spent, Abramovich was not happy that there were no trophies in the cabinet and manager of four years, Claudio Ranieri, was subsequently sacked.
In a stroke of genius the Russian turned to maverick, ‘flavour-of-the-month’ coach Jose Mourinho – who had just led FC Porto to a shock Champions League triumph.
Mourinho arrived as a whirlwind of charisma, arrogance and claims of being a ‘Special One’ and changed the face of the Blues forever.
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