(FILES) Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho ce

(FILES) Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho celebrates after winning the English League Cup Final football match at The Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, Wales, 25 February 2007. Jose Mourinho's three-year reign at Chelsea came to an abrupt end Thursday 20 September 2007, as the Portuguese manager's fraught relationship with the club's Russian owner Roman Abramovich finally reached breaking point. An announcement that will send shockwaves through English and European football came in the early hours of Thursday morning with Chelsea claiming that Mourinho had left "by mutual consent." AFP PHOTO/PAUL ELLIS/FILES (Photo credit should read PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)