Roberto Di Matteo "Buddha"

El Chelsea Fuerte wrote:I think we can all agree that we'll rather have Jose Mourinho than Di Matteo

"I was deeply disappointed with the change but I wasn't in a position to do anything. I still wish Chelsea and all the players every success."

"I spent so many years connected to the club. One incident is not going to change that."

"We achieved something that will connect us for the rest of our lives, that group of players, with the staff we had."

"And there were a lot of supportive messages from the players in the weeks of my release."

"I knew we were together in all of this. And there will always be a positive feeling between us."

On the eve of the Champions League final he deployed more psychology, showing edited footage of his players at the start of their careers. It drew laughs, relaxed nerves and framed the importance of the moment. "There were clips from when they started playing. It was about showing them how far they had come and what they could achieve the day after, the dreams of many of these guys who had never won it. It took a lot of nervousness out of the team. We could feel when we went into the meeting that there was a little bit of tension in the air and after the video there was a relief in the players."