Jose Mourinho looked to his right, then his left, and smiled at pictures of his younger self lifting three Premier League trophies as the Chelsea manager.

The man who once referred to himself as a “Special One” returned to Stamford Bridge on Monday in his new position as the coach of Benfica and was confronted with images of the past, when he was regarded as the best manager in the world.

“Of course I will always be a Blue,” Mourinho said with a grin as he spoke at a news conference the day before Benfica takes on Chelsea in his first Champions League match in five years.

“I am part of their history and they are part of my history. I helped them become a bigger Chelsea and they helped me to become a bigger Jose.”

Mourinho had two spells with Chelsea, firstly from 2004-07 when he bree

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