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Jose: Sheva needs royal treatment

Jose Mourinho has claimed that Andriy Shevchenko failed at Chelsea because he was too used to being treated like a prince at AC Milan.

The Ukraine striker has just returned to Milan, where he spent seven successful seasons, after struggling for form during two torrid years in London.

Mourinho, now Inter Milan coach, was in charge of Chelsea when they signed Shevchenko in 2006 for a club record fee of around £30million.

He said: "He [Andriy] was like a prince in Milan and at Chelsea our philosophy was different, we had no princes. Everybody needs to work like everybody else and everybody needs to prove he deserves to play.

"I think maybe he lost some self-confidence. Step by step a player goes in the wrong direction."

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