Chelsea won the first Club World Cup title in the history of the club world cup with a 2-1 victory over Brazilian side Palmeiras in extra time, which made the long-absent boss Abramovich smile. Once upon a time, Abramovich was known as the boss who often interfered in the operation of the team and loved to fire the manager. However, in recent years, it has not been difficult to see the transformation of the Russian boss, and it has been seen for a long time, even though he has been harassed by the British government, Chelsea has fallen into multiple difficulties and a long reconstruction period, Abramovich is still inseparable from Chelsea. In the past nineteen years, what are the experiences of Abramovich and Chelsea?
After Ranieri took over from Chelsea, in order to accelerate the rejuvenation of the team, he acquired a number of players including Lampard, which put Pressure on Chelsea's finances, but due to the 02/03 season, Chelsea completed the league in fourth place and qualified for the Champions League in the coming season, which made the Russian wealthy businessman Abramovich more interested in investing in Chelsea, and finally bought it for 60 million pounds, which not only reversed the team's financial weakness, but also greatly increased the team's financial resources, which also affected the pattern of the Premier League in the long run. Abramovich has also threatened to win the Champions League as his main target.
In the 2003/04 season, the first season after Abramovic's arrival, Ranieri led Chelsea to second place in the league and reached the top four of the Champions League, but due to no championship gains, Ranieri became the first manager to be fired by Abramovic, and Mourinho, who led Porto to the Champions League and the Portuguese Super League, was hired to coach Chelsea, and Drogba, Essien, Cech and other famous players joined the team at this time. Mourinho's three seasons in charge led the team to six titles, but included a record-breaking Premier League title. However, due to the failure to make a breakthrough in the Champions League, Abramovich and Mourinho have been strained over issues such as the team's buying policy and team tactics, which led to Mourinho's dismissal in September 2007.
Abramovich then replaced Mourinho with technical director Gran, resulting in the team not only hating the runner-up in the Premier League, Champions League and League Cup, but also the news of Mourinho's "children" leaving the team. Therefore, in the 2008/09 season, Abramovic invited the famous coach Scolari to take charge of the army to reassure the army, although avoiding the "tide of departure", Scolari's performance in charge of Chelsea was not flattering, and finally he was sacked in February 2009, becoming the fourth coach in Abramovic's hands. Abramovich invited his friend, then Russian national team coach Hiddink, to serve as the interim manager, putting Chelsea back on track, and the Champions League final four were eliminated in the controversy, but at the end of the season, they won the FA Cup by winning everton, avoiding the continuation of the "championship drought", and Hiddink was also one of the few coaches who had a good time with the team.
As the team has never been able to win the Champions League, Abramovic invited Carlo Ancelotti, who led AC Milan to the Champions League twice, to teach, and Ancelotti played offensive football with the attacking "4 As" composed of Drogba, Anelka, Malouda and Lampard, which was deeply in line with the taste of the boss, and regained the lost three-year Premier League title after scoring a record-breaking 103 goals in 38 Premier League games, and won both the Community Shield and the FA Cup. But the team's performance fell back in the coming season, with more news pointing out that signing Fernando Torres was more of Abramovic's preference. In the end, without a championship, two seasons ended the Ancelotti era, and it was a rather ruthless move to notify Ancelotti of Ancelotti's dismissal during the team's return trip after losing to Everton in the last round of the league.
The successor is the young coach Boas, who led Porto to win the Portuguese Premier League and the Europa League, which has Mourinho's shadow, but the young Boas leader not only has a poor record due to the tactical failure to integrate into the team, but also disagrees with veteran players such as Lampard, and finally only 7 months in charge was fired, from its assistant coach Di Matteo to lead, the Premier League can only be completed in sixth place. But surprisingly, Di Matteo first led the team to defeat Liverpool in the FA Cup final, the Champions League had a victory over Napoli, the elimination of the "Universe" Barcelona and other good stories, and in the final with a penalty shoot to beat Bayern, the temporary manager to complete the "oil king" goal can be called a magical journey. But even if Di Matteo exceeded the quota, because Guardiola left Barcelona that season, Abramovich still hopes to invite famous managers such as Guardiola to lead, so Di Matteo will not get a formal coaching contract until nearly a month after winning the Champions League, which is also the beginning of the team's transition from "iron defense" to technical flow football. But with the Champions League group stage facing exit, Di Matteo has only been the official manager for five months. Chelsea then appointed another manager, Benitez, to head to the end of the season. There were originally seven titles to challenge the season, but only one Europa League title was won, and Benitez did not stay.
In the 2013/14 season, Chelsea ushered in the return of "Daddy", and Mourinho became the first official manager of Chelsea under Abramovic to coach twice. Chelsea's change of coaching slowed down more frequently than in the past, with only five coaches removed in eight seasons, including Hiddink, who was once again interim manager, and Sarri, who was "poached" by Juventus. Although this season Chelsea has lost points and the team has reported the news that Thomas Tuchel will be fired when the team has lost points and the team has reported a discord between the general, but this season's team record is acceptable, and has won the European Super Cup and club world cup, and has reached the league cup final, more importantly, Abramovich is more patient with the manager than ever, and Thomas Tuchel's coaching ability is beyond doubt. The longest single time in charge of the "Oil King" is Mourinho's three seasons and four months, and it is also to see if Thomas Tuchel will usher in a new record.