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“Abramovich made clear he wanted me to win the Champions League with Chelsea and for Chelsea to carve out its identity on the pitch,” Ancelotti revealed in his new book The Dream – Winning the Champions League<\/em>, an extract from which was published by the Daily Mail. “But now I was working for a Russian oligarch who I suddenly understood expected everything to go well all the time. And if it didn’t, he wanted to know why. It was my job to supply the answers.<\/p>\n “The next day Abramovich didn’t talk just to me but to the whole squad. My problem was that Mourinho’s triumph was not great for my relationship with Abramovich. I was supposed to be the antidote to Mourinho – calm, measured and able to revive the squad after the drama. According to Abramovich, Mourinho was supposed to be a spent force.<\/p>\n “Allowing him to disrupt the script, I had embarrassed the owner. Success or failure in Europe is how I would be measured by Abramovich \u2013 and the Champions League cost me my job. Torres was his personal decision and substituting him was a direct rebuke to the owner. Momentarily, I had forgotten that, ultimately, you can\u2019t beat the owner.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n