José Mourinho has won it all as a club manager but if he can add the patience needed for long-term success then his rivals should be fearful
On the strip of the Côte d’Azur where Roman Abramovich spends parts of his year, where the yachts are super-sized, the neighbours include Bill Gates and Baron Saatchi and, to quote one of the local estate agents, calling it upmarket is a bit like saying New York has some “fairly high buildings”, they tell a story about Chelsea’s owner that goes to show even the wealthiest of men sometimes cannot get things just as they want them.
It goes back to his arrival on the pine-covered promontory known as the Peninsula of Billionaires. Abramovich had added one of its mansions to his extensive property portfolio but apparently wasn’t entirely happy with the pebbled beach and one day two large boats pitched up to dump a cargo of white sand over the stones. For a few days, Abramovich had the look he wanted. But only a few days. When a gale whipped off the sea it turned out his very own Grand Designs had one flaw. His new creation was blown away and, if we can be excused a brief moment of schadenfreude, there is something vaguely amusing about one of the world’s richest oligarchs with a beach-towel in his hand and the expression on his face wondering where all his sand had gone.
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