THE message could not have been clearer.
Parked outside the manager's office at Cobham were two boxes overflowing with mementos of previous regimes. Celebration pictures, Manager-of-the-Month awards, pennants and keep-sakes.
Andre Villas-Boas had stripped the walls and cleared the cabinets of reminders of every Chelsea boss from Jose Mourinho through to Carlo Ancelotti.
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