John Terry could not sit idly by. It was midnight, but didn't care in the least. Chelsea captain picked up the phone to call two of the sacred cows of the team, Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard. The task was clear: "We can not allow this!".

The news was none other than the confirmation of the departure of Jose Mourinho, the coach who had changed the mentality of Londoners forever. "We talked to the club and clearly we didn't want him to leave," confirms the captain, "but Jose already had an agreement to go."

The next day, the episode that nobody wanted to happen. One of his players of confidence, his compatriot Paulo Ferreira tells: "A farewell is always difficult, but this was even more, we didn't expect it to be so hard. He came into the locker room, he gathered us all and told us he was leaving..".

Chelsea defender tells the ins and outs of that meeting: "He said he would miss the good times we had and we embraced, one by one I remember Didier Drogba was one of the most affected, he wept like a child.".

The African player has never recognized such a feeling . "There was such emotion in the locker room the day he leaved us, it seemed an unreal thing, as if it were not true, as if it were a movie, because we see him every day and were not prepared for him to go. It was a shock. '"

Frank Lampard didn't want for anything in the world that Mourinho trains another team  . The charismatic midfielder of Chelsea confirms: "In my head I imagined he would be here 10 years. Everything worked perfectly normal, I didn't imply me emotionally with this kind of thing that coaches come and go. Football is like that but..... in that case it was more than a coach, it was a friend who left us. " The man who, according to their own players, forged the winning mentality at Chelsea from the first day that took over the bench, left.

This story has a happy ending because in the 2014-15 season, Mourinho hired Drogba again.