EXCLUSIVE: SHEVA RAPS JOSE
EXCLUSIVE 'YES, IT'S TRUE I'VE COMPLAINED ABOUT CHELSEA MANAGER' 'JOSE NEVER SPOKE TO ME AND PLAYED ME OUT OF POSITION' 'NO SECRET ROMAN WANTED ME MORE THAN MOURINHO'
By Ann Gripper 09/03/2007
"I'm an employee of the club so I do what the club president says," said Shevchenko
Yes it's true I've complained about Mourinho - but there are a lot of things which drove me to that. The manager never spoke to me or played me in the position where my strengths lie," he said in an interview with a German website.
"It's also no secret that I was more on Mr Abramovich's wishlist than the manager's. In the transfer talks Mourinho seemed positive and happy at first. But a few months ago I suddenly became his dartboard because he was having a spat with the president at the time.
"A manager should be objective and not take it out on a player. For the first time in my career a manager said in public that I didn't completely fit in with his plan. That's not exactl
Our relationship is professional. Nothing more and nothing less. He is a tactical fox and has strict beliefs. But I've had better managers.
"In all honesty I still haven't completely settled in to living in London. My body is here but my soul is missing. In January if the club had loaned me out I wouldn't have had anything against it. But that's not an issue any more."
2007-03-08
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