An Shuai’s autobiography: Abu is obsessed with winning the Champions League. Maybe it was the right thing to fire me at the beginning.

As a world-renowned coach, Ancelotti has coaching experience in many top European clubs, including two years of coaching at Chelsea. In its latest autobiography, Dream - Win the Champions League, the 66-year-old Italian reviews his experience working with former Chelsea boss Abu.

I know that my coaching resume can only let myself go so far. Abram clearly expressed his hope that I will lead Chelsea to win the Champions League and give the team a distinctive style on the court. Now, I work for a Russian oligarch and suddenly realize that he hopes everything goes well. If he fails to do so, he hopes to know why, and providing the answer is my duty. At this time, my time at the club was cast a shadow.

Ab showed up on the training ground the day after asking for an answer. What exactly went wrong? Berlusconi has never surveilled me to this level. He is a demanding boss who sometimes buys players I don't need and expects me to incorporate them into the team or discuss tactics. But in many cases, since he is Italian Prime Minister, he will not manage the club in detail, and he has more important things to consider.

Abram has an obsession with winning the Champions League, and the initial breakdown of his relationship with Mourinho (the latter was fired in 2007) has also increased pressure, especially after Inter defeated Chelsea in his first season in two rounds. The next day, Abramovich not only talked to me, but also to the entire team. My problem is that Mourinho's success is not good for me and Abu.

I am considered the opposite of Mourinho - calm and steady, able to cheer up the team up after he left. According to Abu, Mourinho should have lost influence. However, Mourinho disrupted the script and I embarrassed the boss.

The success or failure of the European Games was the standard for Abu to measure me, and the Champions League ended up losing my job. The night before the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals vs. Manchester United, Abu warned the whole team that there would be changes if they didn't win. Then he told me that if we lose the next day, we won't use it. At the time, Torres obviously lacked confidence and felt that the transfer fee was hanging around his neck like a heavy stone. In the locker room, Abu made it very clear what this failure meant. What happened next was inevitable.

Signing Torres was Abu's personal decision, and the former replaced the direct rebuttal of the latter. At that moment, I forgot the truth that you can't defeat your boss in the end.

Maybe Abu fired me right. The following season, Chelsea finally won him the Champions League title, although he fired my successor six months after he won the trophy. As for me, I remember every day at Chelsea was wonderful.