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

But getting Mourinho when they did gave them an identity, it gave them a kind of unifying force.

It turned the sort of disaggregated players into a unit.

And if you s and so you can't imagine I mean, I can't imagine Mourinho going to Chelsea in a world in which Ibrahimovich didn't buy Chelsea.

I don't know what Mourinho would have done instead.

I g I I guess I also think though, i if hypothetically Abramovich did buy in two thousand three and they didn't get Jose in two thousand four, and let's say he went to I don't know, to Italy or Spain or somewhere else instead.

Would they have been as good?

Would they have I mean they probably would won the league at some point, but they would have needed to do it in a different way with a different manager and without that same kind of So the

kind of like identity and aura, I think.

That was so important in those early Abramovich years.

maybe he would just stay at Porto a bit longer.

Create a dynasty.

Yeah, maybe he and try and win the Champions League again.

I'm sure that he would have I think like under every possible circumstance, Mourinho would have ended up in the Premier League at some point because the Premier League w became so rich and big and everything.

But I also think that he if he hadn't come to Chelsea at that moment, then things would have turned out quite differently for everyone.

That's a really interesting question because I think his

His involvement with Chelsea, I think, or like at least like the visibility of his involvement had changed a little bit in the few years leading up to his sale of the club.

You know, there was this there was a well publicized issue with his UK visa.

Um he you know, he he was at he attended the them he attended Chelsea winning the Club World Cup in Abu Dhabi.

But I don't think I think I'm right in saying he had not been to a Chelsea game at Stanford Bridge for quite a while.

So and I s that all said, I assume he would have if we imagine a world in which he hadn't sold the club, I think he would have continued to bat Thomas Tuchel.

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