Andre Villas-Boas Sacked

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Always knew he was inexperienced and wouldn't last long.

Replacements? Jose. Mark my words.
 
Idiots. 20 million pissed down the drain for a bunch of old average footballers that will more then likely leave Chelsea on a free at the end of the season.

The thing I like most about chelsea is that their years of outrageous spending has finally caught up to them and they're well and truly stuffed. They can't spend outrageous fortunes and more due to FFP, and the club failed to invest in the right players at the right time. Instead Flamps, Drogba, Malouda, Terry, Cech and Essien have now all gotten old and ****e, or injured 'in Cech and Essien case' and can no longer do the job for Chelsea.

And now they've got rid of a manager that was trying to build something new for a club on the decline. You couldn't make it up. They will not make the 4 this year and they will not qualify for Europa. I love it!



Mazda why would Mourinho join the sinking ship. If he's going anywhere in London. It's Spurs and thats because Harry's taking over the England job.
 
It seemed as soon as AVB was given the job, the media had an agenda to get rid of him and get Jose Mourinho back there. I work with 2 Chelsea fans, and they were happy with the appointment initially, but all the meddling in the background and player power meant AVB never got a fair crack of the whip.
 
Disgraceful, absolutely disgraceful. :irked:

marchi
Idiots. 20 million pissed down the drain for a bunch of old average footballers that will more then likely leave Chelsea on a free at the end of the season.

The thing I like most about chelsea is that their years of outrageous spending has finally caught up to them and they're well and truly stuffed. They can't spend outrageous fortunes and more due to FFP, and the club failed to invest in the right players at the right time. Instead Flamps, Drogba, Malouda, Terry, Cech and Essien have now all gotten old and ****e, or injured 'in Cech and Essien case' and can no longer do the job for Chelsea.

And now they've got rid of a manager that was trying to build something new for a club on the decline. You couldn't make it up. They will not make the 4 this year and they will not qualify for Europa. I love it!
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Quoted for truth. You couldn't make it up. We might as well just have a thread titled "Chelsea sack manager". Undeniably it will be the same situation in a few months, only worse as their players will be really old by then.
 
Im a Porto fan so I know avb had it in him to do some amazing stuff at Chelsea. Sadly there is a lot wrong with Chelsea. And when I mean a lot wrong, I do mean A LOT wrong.
this sacking was just a matter of time
 
It's a shame, because as has been said, its a problem with the club not the manager. You can give him half a season and expect to win the treble. He needed time to make his changes and turn things around.

Chelsea aren't gonna win anything with their stupid hiring and firing habits. Just leave one person in the job.
 
cuco33
Im a Porto fan so I know avb had it in him to do some amazing stuff at Chelsea. Sadly there is a lot wrong with Chelsea. And when I mean a lot wrong, I do mean A LOT wrong.
this sacking was just a matter of time
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Thing is, AVB wasn't ready for Chelsea. He's still too young. It may sound silly, but it's a significant factor in why he failed. Most managers bring age and experience, and players respect them for it regardless of what level they played at. But AVB is the same age as the big name players at Chelsea, and has never played professional football.

To some of them, they think they know more than he does.

I think he's a really smart bloke and has the potential to be a good manager, but he needs to find a young team and build them up from scratch again.
 
Just shows how much the Chelsea players are 🤬, imo. He's a brilliant tactical manager, and he's got a great enthusiasm for the game, but there are a number of sour apples on that team who ruined the season for everyone. Now that he's been sacked it's just more encouragement for that type of disgusting behaviour. At least he got a heck of a payout out of the deal. :eek:
 
Sach
Just shows how much the Chelsea players are 🤬, imo. He's a brilliant tactical manager, and he's got a great enthusiasm for the game, but there are a number of sour apples on that team who ruined the season for everyone. Now that he's been sacked it's just more encouragement for that type of disgusting behaviour. At least he got a heck of a payout out of the deal. :eek:
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He was too inexperienced for the job. It was a gamble that didn't pay off.

I said in the main football thread, Chelsea could have hired Coventry's Andy Thorn and done this badly and he would have been sacked a lot sooner. Even if, hypothetically, Chelsea were actually and genuinely 100% committed to keeping Andy Thorn as manager as part of a long term strategy, he would still be rubbish because he is not an experienced manager.

It'd be like them hiring me or you. Oh yeah, we can turn it around in 5 years definitely, but... we're just not top class football managers, are we?

I never agreed with his appointment and knew it wouldn't last long, but it is harsh on Villas-Boas. It'll be a massive dent in what was a growing reputation. But he had never played professional football and was younger than some of the players. It's quite obvious that this would create a lack of respect.

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They are a joke of a club. 7 managers in 8 years is it? They are like Real Madrid, without the world class individuals or the backing of the government.

Everyone at Chelsea seems to think they're a bigger club than they actually are. Always talk of dressing room divisions. They need a complete clear out, I thought that bringing in a young manager would help bring that along. Nothing will change there until Abramovic sells up.
 
marchi
Thing is, AVB wasn't ready for Chelsea. He's still too young. It may sound silly, but it's a significant factor in why he failed. Most managers bring age and experience, and players respect them for it regardless of what level they played at. But AVB is the same age as the big name players at Chelsea, and has never played professional football.

To some of them, they think they know more than he does.

I think he's a really smart bloke and has the potential to be a good manager, but he needs to find a young team and build them up from scratch again.
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I think he jumped ship from Porto way too early myself. He should have tried repeating what Mourinho did in 2002-2004 winning it all + 'peewee cup' (uefa/europa league) and then following year winning it all + Champions League. He won everything at Porto last season, had an undefeated season clinching it against the biggest rival club (Benfica) in their home, won a cup match against the same rival club again away when down a 2 goal deficit (game 1 was a loss at home for this cup match), the team scored in every game, players MASSIVELY outshined themselves under him and post season he really tried keeping players at the club. Falcao (and sub Ruben Micael) was the only starter to leave. We got some good and great players (a stronger team than last season) but AVB jumped ship and signed with Chelsea. It was one of the biggest shocks in my book. And he went to a very troubled Chelsea at that!! Maybe it was too much incentive for him to give it a go. Sadly he went into a troubled club and lack of experience and young age didn't help either. A lot of the aged players showed him little to no respect ever since he got there. Lampard being one of them. He acquired the EPL record transfer fee flop of forever, Fernando Torres who continued to not score, a David Luis who forgot how to play defense and a Ramires who isn't playing to his potential botching passes and crosses almost every game. Toss in Anelka and Alex leaving, some others like Malouda and Drogba who are bound to leave at the end of the season, a pissy fit Lampard, and other aging 'Mourinho era legacy' players and you don't have much left. He brought in Juan Mata and one of my favorite players, Raul Meireles. He asked for Hulk from Porto and Roman said nope (then again Porto president PDC is asking WAY too much for him). This was a losing situation in my book. Maybe I'm just too much of a Porto fan and absolutely loved what he did for my club last season... he seriously made some epic strides with Porto and he could have brought a lot to Chelsea had they been patient with him and understanding the massive player issue that's there. Even the departed coaches have said he's inherited a big problem. I think a friend of mine said it best, Chelsea's big money spending is finally biting them in the ass. Firing AVB says goodbye to 10+mil as part of his release clause. Guess Roman A has a lot of money to burn!!

Oh well...

Dear AVB, come back to Porto!!! I can't stand your former assistant Vitor Perreira!!!


PS Regarding AVB never playing footy, there's been good managers who never have. Some of the better ones obviously have though. I mean look at Jose Mourinho, in my book the greatest coach ever in footy history (although I'm a bit of a fanboy of his :P ), Mou's footy career was complete and utter crap, and he knew it hence why he went into coaching where he was clearly superior. I mean he barely saw any much time in the 1st division in Portugal yet he's one of the most iconic and greatest coaches ever in the sport's entire history.
 
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cuco33
Dear AVB, come back to Porto!!! I can't stand your former assistant Vitor Perreira!!!
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disclaimer: I'm not a football fan myself, so I have nothing against or pro Porto. But ... Porto is one of those clubs you just don't leave. If you do, you'll never return. As you said, he jumped ship too early.
 
Hun200kmh
disclaimer: I'm not a football fan myself, so I have nothing against or pro Porto. But ... Porto is one of those clubs you just don't leave. If you do, you'll never return. As you said, he jumped ship too early.
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Possibly but Lucho Gonzalez, our midfield maestro that left for 2-3 seasons for Ligue 1, is back with us. Also, even though the president dinged him for leaving as he did, shortly after it seemed he was back in PDC's graces when receiving the 'dragon award' and at the Man City x Porto match he was sitting alongside him as well. Never say never, although I'm in agreement I doubt he'll come back.

Personally... Inter Milan is where he will end up. I like Renieri a bit but that Inter team is just god awful right now
 
Who will manage Chelsea now ? Di Matteo full time ? Please not Capello or Benitez. :nervous:

I think Chelsea will now enter a dark period similar to Liverpool in recent seasons in which Europa League qualification will be the target each season. Unless Jose comes back or Di Matteo can work miracles that is. But when multiple world cup and champions league winning coaches can't cut it with much better squads, what hope does he have ?
 
My tip is Capello for the hot seat. Nobody else would want the poisoned chalice. It will inevitably go the same route when Roman starts meddling, but not before the 'period of new hope' comes and goes.

Their problem is their squad. Too many old dogs and bad signings (Torres...Luiz...). With the competition they face in the transfer market from Man City now for the biggest names, I think they are Liverpool MkII now in the making.
 

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