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MOURINHO LANDS TOP UEFA ACCOLADE
Chelsea and Liverpool each have two players in Uefa's team of the year with Blues boss Jose Mourinho voted coach.
Chelsea's Petr Cech and John Terry were named in the side alongside Reds duo Steven Gerrard and Luis Garcia.
Five clubs were represented in the side overall with players from AC Milan, Barcelona and Juventus also featuring.
Cafu, Carles Puyol, Paolo Maldini, Ronaldinho, Pavel Nedved, Samuel Eto'o and Andriy Shevchenko made up the rest of the Uefa line-up.
Chelsea boss Mourinho beat Liverpool's Champions League-winning manager Rafael Benitez to the coach of the year vote to scoop the award for the third season running.
The Premiership holders had more than any other club in contention ahead of the team of the year selection with eight players in the running.
However, Didier Drogba, Arjen Robben, Frank Lampard, Michael Essien, Asier del Horno and Ricardo Carvalho all missed the final cut.
England captain David Beckham and Arsenal striker Thierry Henry were also nominated.
The team was decided by users of Uefa's website.
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Much as many claim they dislike him and say how myopic he is, Mourinho is still the coach of choice
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Roman unfazed by losses - Kenyon
Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon said owner Roman Abramovich was not concerned by the club's record £140m loss for the year ending June 2005.
"He's fully aware of where we're going in the long-term and fully aware of the stages in the short-term," Kenyon told BBC Radio Five Live.
"It's not a question of one day walking into the office and saying 'oh by the way we're just posting a £140m loss.'
"He's aware of the progress of the business and football club."
Chelsea's losses of £140m, announced on Friday, were the biggest in football history.
Kenyon insisted he was not alarmed, saying a "series of exceptional one-off items" were behind the figure.
"What matters is that there's a point in time where Chelsea are self-sufficient," added Kenyon.
"I think it matters as he's a good businessman, he's a passionate supporter of Chelsea and we think that being recognised as one of the top football clubs is success on the field and success in business."
Kenyon said Chelsea hope to break even by the 2009-10 season but insisted that the Blues were on a sound financial footing - even if billionaire Abramovich were to leave the club.
"There are no plans for Mr Abramovich to sell Chelsea," he said.
"The plan is that we get to break even then, clearly, make a profit. The long-term plan is to be very successful as a club and business, and within a 10-year-period be recognised as one of the top clubs in Europe.
"If Mr Abramovich left tomorrow, we're secured."
Kenyon added that he hoped to see a significant reduction in the amount of money spent on big-money transfers by the London club.
The Blues spent £175m on transfer dealings in the 2003-04 season, Abramovich's first campaign at the helm, but that dropped to £57m for 2004-05.
"One of the key aspects of our future business is to spend less on transfers and grow more of our home-grown talent," revealed Kenyon.
"That's why we recruited Frank Arnesen to what was already a great academy structure."
Former Tottenham sporting director Arnesen left Spurs in June 2005 to move to Chelsea.
Meanwhile, Kenyon said the club had an open mind about the possibility of building a new stadium for the club.
When asked whether Chelsea would still be at Stamford Bridge in a decade, Kenyon said: "I don't think you can say that.
"The extension to the ground to get the capacity to 42,700 was a major achievement.
"To get to over 50,000 - which is where we'd like to be - we're working and evaluating on that and, if we can't, then we'll evaluate all the other possibilities.
"I don't think we're putting a timeframe on it, what we're saying is we've not yet finished evaluating the opportunities at Stamford Bridge."
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"I'M NOT THE MAN FOR ENGLAND," INSISTS MOURINHO
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho insists he is 'not the man for England' but the man to help England win the World Cup by keeping his England players fit.
The Football Association are seeking a successor to Sven-Goran Eriksson who is set to step down after this summer's World Cup finals in Germany.
But Mourinho, speaking during a visit to the Portuguese embassy in London, revealed that if he does move into international management eventually it will be with his native Portugal.
'I would want to be 12 more years at top club level and then time for my country (Portugal),' he told Sky Sports News.
'I am not the man for England but I am the man to help the English team by providing players in good condition for the English team.
'If in May I can give you (Frank) Lampard and (John) Terry and other players (Joe Cole and Shaun Wright-Phillips) fit it will help you win the World Cup.
'I owe this to England because I work here.'
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at the rate chelsea is going i believe they will return to profit in a few years time.
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simple tax things - Chelsea lose money, RA pay no tax. If Chelsea make money, RA will have to contribute to the British economy.