‘We had been sat within the cinema with Jose Mourinho, watching a documentary about our first two Premier League titles, then I obtained house and noticed he’d left – I believed it needed to be a joke’: Chelsea legend opens up on boss’ shock 2007 departure

Chelsea legend Petr Cech has opened up about his shock at Jose Mourinho’s abrupt departure from the membership. The goalkeeping nice claims he thought it was “a joke” at first.

Mourinho left the Blues (for the primary time) in September 2007, having guided the membership to their first two Premier League titles in 2005/06 and 2006/07. The Portuguese formally exited Stamford Bridge by mutual consent, though he had had a sequence of disagreements with proprietor Roman Abramovich.

Cech was one among Mourinho’s first signings as Chelsea boss and a close to ever-present all through these two title triumphs. Talking solely to FourFourTwo, he defined how he found that his supervisor had gone.

“I used to be shocked,” mentioned the previous Czech Republic captain, “as all people was. There was a documentary made in regards to the first two titles, and the day that he departed, we went to Fulham Broadway cinema for the premiere.