Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck is confident new manager Luiz Felipe Scolari will enjoy a positive relationship with club owner Roman Abramovich.

He told Chelsea's website: "It really does fascinate the media and all of us, but I think that at any club the relationship between the owner and the management is important.

"At Chelsea Football Club, Roman is the owner and he loves Chelsea, he loves football and he wants to be knowledgeable on the football side of things.

"So his relationship between himself and the manager is important and I think that sometimes in the press we hear that Roman is picking the team or Roman's meddling or Roman is doing this or Roman's doing that, and that's not it at all.

"You know he just wants to understand what's going on and be part of the football and I think Felipe is confident enough of his own skills and own ability for his relationship with Roman will be superb."