Andre Villas Boas Set For Chelsea

Damn you BBC for saying Andre Villas Boas to Chelsea is a done deal. All I wanted was for Villas Boas to guide this Porto team into the Champions League for one season then he could of gone. For a man who is uneasy about the Jose Mourinho comparison he doesn’t do himself any favours taking all his old jobs.

Porto is still one of the smartest teams in football. 15 million for a manager is beyond brilliant. How many small clubs have just been run over by bigger clubs picking off their talent. Porto is smart enough to know they are going to sell but when they do it will be at their price on their terms.

As for the Chelsea gig itself it’s not going to be easy for Villas Boas. They are a lot of sharks in the water at Chelsea, unlike Porto will a bunch of young hungry players were open to his ideas. Villas Boas is going to have to find a tricky balance of bringing in fresh faces to the team while moving along some of the older players who are the mainstays of this Chelsea side. Villas Boas does have the advantage of working with most of these Chelsea players previously but it will be interesting to see how he will be able to sit down the likes of Lampard and Drogba and tell them they no longer are the star players at Chelsea.

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2 Responses to “Andre Villas Boas Set For Chelsea”

  1. OldRightBack Says:
    June 20th, 2011 at 12:27 pm

    Sorry to hear this Sinnacle :( . I know you wanted him to stay at Porto from prior posts. Good luck to him… he’ll need it at Chelsea. Hopefully, he won’t become another managerial casualty there.

  2. admin Says:
    June 20th, 2011 at 12:30 pm

    :-( is right. I hope Villas Boas doesn’t get eaten alive at Chelsea. I hope for his sake it goes better than the last time Chelsea took a coach away from Portuguese football when they stole Scolari during Euro 2008. (His run was over but he could of at least waited til after Euro 2008 before talking with Chelsea)

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