Claudio Ranieri He was the first coach he dismissed Roman Abramovich to Chelsea. The Russian president acquired the London club in 2003 and started a project which the Italian coach would not continue.
At first the plans Abramovich is to build a team. That was the command of the transalpine coach in that first season, but everything changed with the arrival of peter kenyon as executive director.
Big signings
Chelsea invested 120 million pounds in their squad by signing Hernan Crespo, Juan Sebastian Veron, Damien Duff, Adrian Mutu and Claude Makeleleand Kenyon understood that the team had to win a title.
“When Peter Kenyon did the first interview, I said to myself: ‘It’s over Claudio, you’re dead,'” the Italian began in the Paramount+ documentary Fever Pitch.
“He said: ‘If Claudio doesn’t win any title, it will be a disaster.’ I thought: ‘Why? Roman (Abramovich) never asked me anything like that in the first year,” added Ranieri.
For his part, Kenyon has explained in the past that “Claudio is a very nice guy”, but that is visible Jose Mourinho he won the Premier in the following two years, the move was seen as successful.
Source: La Verdad
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