"In three months, without Chelsea having lost anything, they invented 14 future managers of the club to replace me. I was the first manager in Premier League history to become a champion in his first season. Perhaps I won too soon. I felt I was the victim of my own success, that the victories in championships and cups came too early. Stats Say It All
The percentage of wins by Arsene Wenger in his first 100 games in the English league is 50 per cent," the Portuguese continued. "And Alex Ferguson, in the same number of games, barely managed to achieve three points in half of them.
"My Chelsea beat those numbers completely, with well over 70 league wins, two titles in a row without blinking and leaving the directors of the Premier League on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Does that make me a better manager than Wenger or Ferguson? No. But it does not make me a worse manager than them.