Villas Boas (EX) Chelsea manager

[badpiggy]

I will never understand how obnoxious cunts like Terry, Drogba and Ashley Cole have a hold on a dressing room. Probably my own naivety I guess. But seriously - ****in Drogba???!!! The ultimate whinging, self-obsessed, diving, theatrical, mememe cunt. How the **** did anyone in the dressing room tolerate him top the point of him being one of the top guys? Is it really as simple as a bunch of thuggish ******s all supporting each other and bullying everyone else?

When Ashley Cole shot that kid with a bb-gun I really wondered what the **** was happening but I suppose it's easy to imagine a ****in weasel like Cole wanting to impress cunts like Terry et al by having a laugh at the expense of the work experience guy. In retrospect it's probably easy to see how it was going to take something superhuman from Villas Boas to get those ****ers onside, especially given his age and his zero playing experience. Villas Boas can probably grab people cerebrally or tactically but Mourinho burned all the no-playing-experience credibility - unless he could top him, he was on a hiding to nothing. He's not the most likeable of guys granted but he definitely went there too soon. Horrible club.

[Alex]

Hes at the wrong club at the wrong time. Been badly advised going to Chelsea. He could have stayed at Porto another year, then gone to a Top team in Germany/Holland/France then progressed to a top team in England/Spain/Italy

Too much too soon for him, which is a shame as he seems like a fantastic manager.

[baitman]

im getting a little bored with this little ginger wazzock. his daily bleating is sure to get him the bullet from romanski, which i believe, is his end game. hes after a fat payoff after getting the chop, as plain as the ginger stubble on his face

[Shaggy]

http://www.thenational.ae/sport/football/coach-andre-villas-boas-teeters-on-the-brink-at-chelsea

Coach Andre Villas-Boas teeters on the brink at Chelsea
Duncan Castles

Feb 29, 2012

Andre Villas-Boas has been told that his future as the manager of Chelsea is dependent on keeping his team in this season's Champions League.

Roman Abramovich's continued support of the Portuguese's "project" to overhaul the English club's squad and playing style hinges on eliminating Napoli in two weeks' time, according to sources close to Villas-Boas.

Recent conversations between the manager and Abramovich included an explicit warning that exiting the competition the Chelsea owner covets beyond all others to a club well down Serie A was not acceptable.

The Russian billionaire is said to have informed Villas-Boas that he still liked the young coach and supported plans to radically overhaul a rebellious squad this summer, but other important figures at Chelsea do not want him at the club next season.

If results, starting with the key Champions League tie, do not improve Villas-Boas would be dismissed.

Though Chelsea will carry a 3-1 deficit into that Stamford Bridge return game with Napoli, Villas-Boas remains confident of progressing and retaining his job.

His awareness that Abramovich's support is now conditional, however, was reflected in an interview granted to Portuguese radio station TSF two days after the Napoli defeat and broadcast on Monday evening.

Asked about his future at Chelsea, Villas-Boas compared his position to those of Carlo Ancelotti, Luiz Felipe Scolari and Jose Mourinho, all dismissed by the Russian billionaire in previous seasons.

"The seat that I am in is one from which a world champion, a manager with two Champions Leagues, and another with a Uefa Cup, two Premierships and two Champions Leagues fell," said Villas-Boas.

[Chazza]

[dom9]

Very, very harsh on Kezman and Shevchenko putting Torres in with them.

Groan...

Once the press get onto something in this country they are like a pack of rabid dogs regardless of what was said and in what context

They are disgusting.

[Exiled_red]

Very, very harsh on Kezman and Shevchenko putting Torres in with them.

[Chazza]

Once the press get onto something in this country they are like a pack of rabid dogs regardless of what was said and in what context

[Chris]

Very, very harsh on Kezman and Shevchenko putting Torres in with them.

[Chazza]

André Villas-Boas admits to fears that Chelsea will sack him

• 'Let's see if Roman Abramovich wants a change at the club'
• Manager concedes he has failed to revive Torres's career

André Villas-Boas has publicly expressed fears for the first time that he could endure the same fate as his predecessors and be dismissed by the Chelsea owner, Roman Abramovich, before he is given the chance to implement his long-term plans.

Villas-Boas was prised from Porto last summer, at a cost of £13.5m in compensation, and charged with initiating a radical overhaul of an ageing squad which had been overseen by four permanent managers in as many years. That process appeared to require time with Villas-Boas confident, until recently, that the club's hierarchy appreciated the scale of the task in hand, only for a slump that saw four wins in 14 matches prior to Saturday's victory over Bolton Wanderers eroding the owner's faith.

The 34-year-old has previously stressed a belief that he would be granted the time – denied the likes of Carlo Ancelotti and Luiz Felipe Scolari, whose tenures were ruthlessly cut short by Abramovich – to implement his three-year "project". Yet, in an interview conducted by the Lisbon-based radio station TSF last Thursday but broadcast on Monday night, that stance appeared to shift. "We are now in the exact same moment as last year," said Villas-Boas, referring back to the last few months of Ancelotti's spell which were played out with the manager effectively reduced to the role of dead man walking. "It is an exact copy but with a less experienced coach [in charge].

"I know that, in the Abramovich era, we have the worst results but I think I have felt the confidence from the owner. Let's see if he wants a change in the club or not. The pattern of behaviour of the owner has led to a downfall [of managers] in similar situations, or even 'better' situations. What will be his reaction? It will be one of two: either a continuation of the project and full support from above; or a continuation of the cultural pattern that has happened before. We don't know. We don't know if it'll be tomorrow or in two years from now. It'll depend on what is the understanding of what is happening at the moment."

There has been interest on some level in the short-term appointment of either Rafael Benítez or Fabio Capello, experienced managers who are readily available, as a replacement for Villas-Boas should he be sacked with Chelsea's season threatening to unravel. The club are out of the Premier League's top four on goals scored and the threat of failing to make the Champions League for the first time in the Abramovich era is very real – they are 3-1 down from the first leg against Napoli.

There has been grumbling discontent, too, among senior members who have spent time out of the team amid fears they are being steadily phased out of the club. Frank Lampard admitted at the weekend that his own relationship with Villas-Boas had "not been ideal" and the England midfielder joined Michael Essien and Ashley Cole in being omitted from the starting lineup for the Champions League defeat in Naples last week.

Villas-Boas, who praised the achievements of Abramovich's ownership as "unbelievable" and suggested there is an interest in Porto's Brazil forward Hulk as he considered the team's further development, has conceded his approach has not gained universal approval within the dressing room, but claimed in the interview that "there is no lack of support from the players here".

Villas-Boas, who stressed he remained committed to Chelsea and would not be seeking a summer return to Porto, pointed to his plans to reshape his squad by hinting at summer departures for Florent Malouda and Salomon Kalou, who have been fringe players this term, and admitted he had failed in his attempts to revive Fernando Torres' career. The £50m striker has not scored in the Premier League since the visit of Swansea in September and the manager concedes he had been "lost" in the months since.

"We have been through the Torres situation before with [Andriy] Shevchenko and [Mateja] Kezman," he said, referring to other expensive forwards who have failed to flourish at Stamford Bridge. "But Torres's problems may have also come from a change of philosophy at the club."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...ack?CMP=twt_gu

[RedReet]

I get this so often, even with a couple of mates who are huge Reds.

I had a debate this week with an Arsenal fan when he laughed at my suggestion about Rafa replacing Wenger. I said to him that he's gone off the opinions of Sky, Sunday Supplement and the red tops and after listing off Rafa's achievements, signings and the ****storm that he had to put up with I was still looked at as if I was off my rocker.

It genuinely ****ing baffles me. But it's because people are too ****ing thick - or lazy - to watch the games and form their own opinions of the man.

If you compare the amount of points won by both managers, Rafa is only 15 behind Wenger during his time here (Houllier finished 30 points behind them in his last season alone). When you consider that this was Arsenals greatest ever side (the Invincibles)and think about the obstacles Rafa had to overcome (new club, new country, G&H, Sky cunts etc.), surely even the thickest Arsenal supporter would have to accept that Rafa is at least his equal. Oh, and let’s not forget how Rafa sacrificed PL points too as he was only interested in the CL.

If you were to exclude his last year and put that season down to the influence of G&H, the 2 point difference is negligible and then you can throw in A CL win, an FA cup win, a Super Cup win and a charity shield, not to mention getting us to number 1 spot in Europe.

Yes, I can see why Arsenal fans wouldn’t want him.

[Pablo]

WTF happened here! FWIW I agree with just about every word Shaggy said there



Anyway let's get back to talking about AVB: No sane man grows a full-on ginger beard. I worry about his mental state.

[Mattshark]

I'm fed up with arguing about Rafa with other mates, they all believe in everything that the lazy sensationalist media has to say.

Here is a man that took a squad of players costing the best part of £100m less than both Man Utd and Chelsea (average starting 11 and bench) yet was expected to challenge for the league every season.

Here's a man that with a squad costing far less than the top 2 clubs in England turned us into the most feared team in the Champions League, took us to 2nd in the Premiership with an accumulated points total that would've won the league anytime before.

The media for some god knows why reason, expected Rafa to have us challenging on all fronts EVERY season with a starting 11 and bench that costs £100m less than Utd and Chelsea. Who the **** expects that? Its absolutely incredible.

Yes he made a few mistakes, who doesn't?

He should've been here for a decade or two in my opinion. He would've built something very special longterm.

[Fivex]

Chuffing weasels talk about the blue touchpaper

[Chazza]

Crikey this is all a bit lively for a Friday afternoon, normally we are posting Hue and Cry songs and talking about getting smashed at the weekend