Chelsea chief Petr Cech insists Everton manager Rafa Benitez "did a good job" when in charge at Stamford Bridge.
Cech wrote for the club's website: "Rafa will always be remembered as a manager who won the Europa League with us. He came to replace Roberto Di Matteo and he came at not an easy moment because we had won the Champions League and you go to the next season full of expectations and happiness, and then everything went the wrong way and then Rafa came at a time when it was not easy for everybody, because we were dropping into the Europa League and we had so many games to play.
"We were still in the FA Cup, we reached the semi-finals of the League Cup and we had the FIFA Club World Cup. We ended up with an absolutely crazy schedule and a club-record 69 games played that season.
"Rafa came in and suddenly the games were rolling and rolling and rolling without a stop. So there was that firstly and then our rivalry against his former club Liverpool was there as well for the fans.
"But in the end we managed to win a European trophy and that was a good note on which to leave his interim manager role, which everybody knew at the beginning was the idea of the club, so as players we knew he will be our manager till the end of the season and then the new decision was made for the manager for the next season.
"So I think he did a good job."
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