After 12 years of owning the club and having gone through a variety of managers, Abramovich seems to have reached a new understanding with Mourinho
• How ‘the Special One’ became ‘the Happy One’
• Capital One Cup final: Chelsea 2-0 Spurs
• Mourinho leaves Chelsea in 2007
• How ‘the Special One’ became ‘the Happy One’
• Capital One Cup final: Chelsea 2-0 Spurs
• Mourinho leaves Chelsea in 2007
His expression will be as inscrutable as ever. But as Roman Abramovich gazes down from his familiar perch in the West Stand at Stamford Bridge on the action he hopes will bring the club’s first Premier League trophy in five years, he might ponder how things have come full circle under the manager most closely associated with his 12-year rollercoaster tenure as owner.
Viewed from one angle he has burned through more than £1bn, nine managers and a dizzying array of players to arrive back where he started – with José Mourinho lifting the Premier League trophy alongside Didier Drogba, John Terry and Petr Cech.
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