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Former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich made a baffling decision that one of the club’s greatest players ‘did not understand’. Abramovich became owner of the Blues in 2003 and immediately set about turning them into a household name in world football. Chelsea’s recent history had been fairly successful, winning two FA Cups, a Football League Cup, a UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup and a UEFA Super Cup in the six seasons before the Russian took over. However, the billionaire had bigger ideas and was willing to spend hundreds of millions to achieve his ambitious objectives. And, it did not take long for Abra…

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