JOSE MOURINHO says Roman Abramovich will never be able to replace him at Stamford Bridge.

The Special One insists he is no longer Chelsea boss because he was a victim of his own outstanding early success.

Owner Red Rom is ready to call time on Avram Grants reign this summer if the Blues fail to capture any silverware.

And Mourinho has turned up the heat by reminding the billionaire Russian that even Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger struggle to match his record in England.

Guus Hiddink, Frank Rijkaard and Henk Ten Cate have all been touted as possible new managers but Mourinho does not feel anyone can measure up to him.

Looking back to the end of his three-year reign, Mourinho said: When Chelsea dropped points to Manchester United, for months everyone had their right to speculate.

They said Chelsea were no longer dominant. In three months, without Chelsea having lost anything, they invented 14 future managers of the club to replace me.

I was the first manager in Premier League history to become a champion in his first season.

Perhaps I won too soon. I felt I was the victim of my own success, that the victories in championships and cups came too early.

In a book called Jose Mourinho: Born Winner he adds: The percentage of wins by Arsene Wenger in his first 100 games in the English league is 50 per cent.

"And Alex Ferguson, in the same number of games, barely managed to achieve three points in half of them.

And my Chelsea beat those numbers completely, with well over 70 league wins, two titles in a row without blinking and leaving the directors of the Premier League on the verge of a nervous breakdown?

Does that make me a better manager than Wenger or Ferguson?