#3. Andriy Shevchenko
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Shevchenko found himself at the receiving end of unwanted criticism from Mourinho when the Ukranian was forcefully handed over to him by Roman Abramovich instead of his preferred striker.
Mourinho went on to say in public that Shevchenko did not fit into his plan which didn’t help with his motivation. Shevchenko wasn’t playing the best football of his career, but he wasn’t playing his worst either. Criticism of that sort would have naturally angered any player, and it did. Shevchenko retorted by saying that he was being used as a ‘dartboard’ and that the Portuguese wasn’t a great motivator.
The former Chelsea striker was quoted in The Mirror in 2007: "The manager never spoke to me or played me in a position where my strengths lie.
"He [Mourinho] is a tactical fox and has strict beliefs. But I've had better managers,” he added.
Though the feud seemed to have subsided after Jose’s departure from Chelsea, Jose, being Jose, rekindled it while at Inter when he compared Shevchenko to a Prince who had come to play at a Chelsea team where there was no prince but only fighters. In 2014, Sheva again attacked Jose, partially blaming him for his failure in England.
Shevchenko and Mourinho certainly don’t see eye to eye, but who knows how long it’s going to last.
