Jack Pitt-Brooke

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1,033 appearances 20 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 15 Sep

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The Athletic FC Podcast · What If... Abramovich bought Spurs instead of Chelsea? · 6 Sep 2026 podcast

Maybe there was definitely a bit of a sense of like the phrase ruining football was thrown around a little bit at that point.

I think there was I think people were people were a bit surprised because they'd never seen anybody behave like this in the transfer market before.

But I don't think I don't think there was that much external

So there's a there's a Carlo Ancelotti brought out an autobiography, strangely enough, at almost the exact moment that he was about to become Chelsea manager in two thousand nine.

And even stranger, in which he appears to detail his conversations with Abramovich about taking over at Chelsea.

And he gives a quite interesting account of meetings with Abramovich uh just before he became Chelsea manager.

And he said so th and th this is Ancelotti descri as he describes a meeting with Abramovich.

Rich, he said he was and still is looking for a team with a precise identity, like Manchester United, Liverpool, Milan, not like my Chelsea.

While he was talking, my curiosity perked up.

He wasn't the monster that papers painted him to be.

The first thing I noticed was his timidity, the second his great knowledge of football, the third his hunger.

Dear Ancelotti, I want to win everything.

Everything and I just

I just think that I mean it's it's kind of bizarre to me that that conversation made it into print, but I also think it does give you a bit of a window into

It does give you a bit of a

Abramovich's desperation to win.

I mean, like we can all you know, we can all talk about like the political element of Abramovich's ownership of Chelsea, but I I never thought that

I never thought he'd want to do anything other than win.

I think that winning he w he wanted to win at any cost, basically.

And the football, you know, regardless of whether what his other motivations might have been, I don't think that dilutes the purity of his football motivations, which were very, very ambitious and very clear.

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