Complex world of Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich

	Enigmatic Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich, whose wealth is estimated at $20.2 billion, bought Chelsea in 2003. Ian Walton/Getty Images
	The Roman Files * According to Forbes magazine, Abramovich is Russia's richest man, worth an estimated $20.2 billion. Most of his wealth derives from the $14.8 billion sale of his stake in Sibneft to the Kremlin-controlled Gazprom company in September '05. * Abramovich funds the Channel One Cup, an annual friendly tournament for Israeli, Russian and Ukrainian clubs, held in Israel during the European season's winter break. "Roman has two loves, Russia and Israel. That's why he decided to have the tournament," said Pini Zahavi, agent and close associate of the Chelsea owner. * Abramovich recently divorced his wife of 16 years, Irina, a former Aeroflot stewardess and mother of his five children. According to Russian business newspaper Vedomosti, Irina received $300 million as a settlement. The figure includes the value of homes in Britain and in the Moscow region, as well as a yacht and private plane. * Through his foundation, Abramovich has contributed an estimated $30 million towards the cost of a new training center for the Russian national team. He has also helped to pay the wages of Russia coach Guus Hiddink. * Abramovich owns a number of luxury yachts, reportedly including Eclipse, which is being built at a cost of $400 million. It will be 482 feet long, making it the world's largest private yacht.

By David Conn, Special to SI.com, World Soccer

Surely no group of consultants, assigned the task of designing an emblematic soccer manager for our ravenous media age, could have produced a marriage as perfect as the real-life soap opera that is José Mourinho.

Savvy, cocky, grumpy, deadpan, emotional, enigmatic, carefully disheveled, a man who understands that every interview is theatre, Mourinho is gold for soccer's satellite era. And once again he failed to disappoint at the end of a season in which his relationship with Chelsea's owner Roman Abramovich was the main plotline.

As Didier Drogba settled the first FA Cup Final at the new, steel-arched, $180-a-ticket Wembley Stadium, dinking a tender winner after a one-two with Frank Lampard, Mourinho was off, sprinting down the line in his designer suit, pumping that familiar celebration, proclaiming that he had proved his imagined crowds of doubters wrong. His team, beaten by Manchester United to the Premier League title, had defeated United to capture its second domestic trophy, following the League Cup, and prevented condemnation of Chelsea's season as a failure.

After the match, Mourinho scoffed through the usual questions about whether he would be staying or going, reiterating that he has been publicly backed by Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck, who is Abramovich's lawyer and right-hand man, and more recently by chief executive Peter Kenyon.

"The club has told me they want me to stay," Mourinho said. "I have three years' relationship with Mr. Buck and Mr. Kenyon, and I look to them as honorable people not as liars. So when they say publicly I will be Chelsea manager next season, I have no reason to doubt."

Mourinho, always a quotable feast, had provided a week of fun in the run-up to the FA Cup final with a story about his un-quarantined dog. At Wembley, his departing cry to the press pack was: "See you on Aug. 5" -- the date of the season-opening Community Shield, between Chelsea and United at Wembley. For all the speculation about the storms between Mourinho and Abramovich, the manager was making it clear: He intends to be at Chelsea next season.

That had seemed in doubt after he made the remarkable claim earlier in the season that he had not been given enough money to spend. Since Abramovich arrived to buy the debt-soaked club from Ken Bates in the summer of 2003, Chelsea has indulged in unrestrained spending, an orgy of money.

Yet here was the manager grumbling that he did not have strength in depth, sparking the rash of stories that he had fallen out with Abramovich, that the players he had signed, most prominently Andriy Shevchenko, were not his choices, and that, come the summer, he would be gone.

It was extraordinary how much mileage the story had, given that Mourinho never confirmed any of it, while the closest the media get to Abramovich is filming him behind fortified glass in Wembley's luxurious executive facilities. You could guarantee that the first instinct of the commentator to amplify that image would be to ponder whether Abramovich will now, after the FA Cup win, be happy to leave Mourinho in place.