Villas Boas (EX) Chelsea manager

[Exiled_red]

People foget they have spent close to 150m since start of the year.

Torres, Luiz, Mata, Lukaku, Merieles. Oriol Romeu (goalkeeper) - Thibaut Courtois & Lucas Piazon

They need to spend that again and more. Awful management of the club

At the moment only Mata looks a good signing. Though on paper there are some good players there. We need to be careful, they could come good, look at Man City, last year we were taking the piss out of a number of their signings, but quite a few of them have come good this season...

[Baracus]

People foget they have spent close to 150m since start of the year.

Torres, Luiz, Mata, Lukaku, Merieles. Oriol Romeu (goalkeeper) - Thibaut Courtois & Lucas Piazon

They need to spend that again and more. Awful management of the club

[barnes10]

january will tell us all we need to know about chelsea's future

[RedReet]

Perhaps I should have read on then.

[Craig_H]

Chris was clearly taking the piss

[RedReet]

From page 1 alone..

Kenny

Probably the greatest manager to ever live.

A future great. Chelsea have got themselves a bargain. Get your money on Chrlsea to win the league.

If this happens, Chelsea will become exponentially more attractive to loads of top footballers - not that they're struggling to attract players anyway obviously. The only hope will be that Abramovich's boredom gets the better of him again and he starts interfering. Plus Villas Boas will bring a few class players form Porto. **** this.

[IN_RAFA_WE_TRUST]

[Shaggy]

AVB: "Souness made the comment – it's easy to win in Portugal. But when Souness arrived at Liverpool it was easy to win, in the 1980s and 1990s, wasn't it? And he didn't win anything."

[Kinell]

To be fair he's a bit of an expert when it comes to managerial appointments and big mistakes.

[MrMichael]

Not sure if anyone's posted this yet, but it made me lol. Souness really is a comedian


Souness: Chelsea appointing Villas-Boas was a big mistake

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Chelsea-have-made-a-mistake-appointing-Andre-Villas-Boas-says-ex-Liverpool-hero-Graeme-Souness-article785090.html

Graeme Souness *believes Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has gaffed big-time in replacing Carlo Ancelotti with *Andre Villas-Boas.

Abramovich paid £13.2million in compensation to Porto to make Villas-Boas his new boss after firing Ancelotti for failing to win any silverware last season.

But Souness claims the 33-year-old’s achievements at the Portuguese club have been played up too much.

Souness said: “Chelsea are a big concern for me. The new manager and his new backroom team are relatively inexperienced. I worry for Chelsea.

“I just didn’t see any sense in *getting rid of the previous manager. I thought Ancelotti was a good *manager, tried and tested at the highest level.

“The guy they have got in now is untried. Being successful in Portugal, where I worked for two years, isn’t the biggest of deals. The way they have got it set up at Porto – from the president down – they are more or less *guaranteed *success every year there.”

Souness also feels the fact that Villas-Boas never played the game *professionally, as well as his relative managerial inexperience, will see him struggle to control the *Chelsea dressing room.

“The guy never played the game. I don’t think he’s been around top players all his life and he’s not got that experience,” said *Souness.

“Nothing prepares you for management at the highest level.

“The reason I think *Chelsea will have *difficulty this year is *because he’s going to take a year to find out exactly what it’s all about in England. When you look at what they had last year with Ancelotti, he has been around the block many times and won everything as a player and manager.

“ I thought he was a perfect fit for them.”

[spud_gun]

http://newsthump.com/2011/06/23/abramovic-getting-impatient-as-villas-boas-enters-second-trophyless-day/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Newsthump+%28NewsThump%29&utm_content=Twitter

Feeling the pressure already.

[Mostar]

He's a very impressive guy, speaks perfect English.

He's gonna be as successful as the new signings they get.

If they acquire the likes of Falcao, Hulk, Mouthinho, Neymar and/or Kun it will makes things pretty easy for him in his first year there.

[Fredo]

Something to aspire to, eh?

That's what they say about me as well.

[Reece]

He's a very impressive guy, speaks perfect English.

Something to aspire to, eh?

[Fredo]

He's a very impressive guy, speaks perfect English.