Chelsea's chief executive Peter Kenyon has scotched rumours of a rift between him and coach Jose Mourinho.
Kenyon, currently in China along with London Mayor Ken Livingstone as part of the delegation to promote relations between Beijing and London ahead of the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, said talk of a bust-up between the pair is pure 'fabrication'.
But while announcing Chelsea have offered the Chinese football team the use of the club's training facilities at Cobham in the lead up to the 2008 Games in Beijing, Kenyon also took time out to nail rumours of a rift between him and Mourinho.
Speculation has been rife the pair no longer speak and have clashed over the choice of transfer targets for next season. But Kenyon stressed: "I am 100% happy with him. It is just fabrication."
The Chelsea chief also boasted the Londoners were now as big as Manchester United in China.
Kenyon laughed off suggestions they were losing fans in England and had opted to pursue lucrative markets abroad to make up for the shortfall at home.
"There is absolutely no evidence of that," said Kenyon. "We have seen our fan base go up by 300% in the last two years.
"We have been looking at research in China which shows we are as popular as Manchester United, whereas two years ago we were not even on the same radar scope."
