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Chelsea Football Club (also known as the Blues, previously also known as the Pensioners) was founded in 1905, is a Premier League football team that plays at Stamford Bridge football ground in west London.
In early 2003, Gianfranco Zola was voted as the best ever player of the team by the Chelsea fans.
In July 2003, Chelsea was acquired by Roman Abramovich, a Russian billionaire. British tabloids immediately dubbed the club Chelski. Abramovich used his fortune to wipe out the club's substantial debts at a stroke, and then directed funds towards the acquisition of new players. New signings for the start of the 2003/04 season included the Irish left winger Damien Duff, the Cameroon international right-sided midfielder Njitap Geremi, French midfielder Claude Makelele who joined from Real Madrid the Argentinian striker Hernán Crespo, promising English youngsters Wayne Bridge, Glen Johnson and Joe Cole and the Argentinian midfielder Juan Sebastian Veron, who was out of favour at Manchester United. During the christmas transfer period the young English midfielder Scott Parker joined after having impressed during the first half of the season at Charlton Athletic. Despite finishing runners-up in Premier League during the 2003-2004 season, and reaching the semi finals of the Champions League manager Claudio Ranieri was sacked on 31 May 2004.
José Mourinho was appointed as Manager and Coach on 2 June 2004, one week after managing FC Porto to the Champions League title.
With the recent signings of Didier Drogba, Mateja Kezman, Paulo Ferreira, Ricardo Carvalho and Arjen Robben, among others, Abramovich's spending on players since purchasing the club has now exceeded £200 million.
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