The coach took over a Bianconeri side in need of rebuilding and transformed it into the most dominant team in Serie A, and finds the Blues languishing in much the same way.
Guus Hiddink will probably be given more credit for leading Chelsea to seventh than Luigi Delneri was when he finished in that position with Juventus in his only full season in charge.
That was at the end of the 2010-11 and a Juve team on which around 60 million euros was spent the summer before was judged in the harshest possible light.