messi kids football kit Jose Mourinho’s shock departure from Chelsea in September 2007 left the likes of Didier Drogba, John Terry and Frank Lampard “crying on the floor”, says Steve Sidwell.
A Portuguese tactician had helped to lift the Blues to the very top of the English game during an initial stint in the Stamford Bridge dugout.
Having been lured away from Porto in the summer of 2004, Mourinho delivered two Premier League titles, an FA Cup triumph and two League Cup wins in west London.
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He was then unceremoniously ushered through the exits, with Sidwell adamant that the current Tottenham boss – who returned to Chelsea in 2013 – had not lost the dressing room and left many of his senior stars devastated by moving on.
The former Blues midfielder, who was signed by Mourinho a messi kit kids matter of months before his departure, told The Athletic: “I never felt that tension or thought he was in trouble.