Andre Villas-Boas Still Taking Shots At Chelsea FC And Tottenham
Former Chelsea FC and Tottenham Hotspur manager Andre Villas-Boas is still taking shots at his old club through the media years after he was sacked. AVB, as he is commonly known, was hired by Chelsea FC after he won the Europa League and the Portuguese Liga in the 2010-11 season and he was labelled the next big thing in world football. He had spent several years with Chelsea as an assistant under Jose Mourinho and the Blues thought they had found the next charming Portuguese manager who would take European football by storm.
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Things did not go quite as planned for Andre Villas-Boas at Chelsea as he clashed with the club’s old guard and his high pressing style did not fit the team’s personnel. He was famously fired and replaced by Roberto Di Matteo less than a year in to his reign and the Blues went on to win the FA Cup and Champions League that season.
AVB spoke to the Daily Star about his time at Chelsea FC and said, “of course then you never know what will happen, what I found at Chelsea was not what I wanted. I got a complicated time with the private life of the president, who rarely attended. This clearly affected things. Later, I was surprised and am still because the president’s intentions have changed. When I went there, the idea was to reshape the team.”
If AVB was truly surprised by the sacking then he must not have been paying attention to the results and losses that were piling up for the Blues. His reign could have been disastrous as they fell outside the top four for the first time in the Abramovich era and had it not been for the Champions League heroics, the Blues may have not signed Eden Hazard and continued their great success.
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Just months after he was sacked by Chelsea FC, Andre Villas-Boas was given another chance in the Premier League and was hired by Tottenham Hotspur. Again things did not go quite as planned and AVB blamed it on the club’s inability to sign his transfer targets and said, “the chairman proposed a challenge to increase Tottenham’s competitive level, but immediately Modric left and we didn’t get any of the targets I had identified, such as João Moutinho, Willian, Oscar or Leandro Damião.”
Two of those targets of course ended up at Chelsea and was sacked after a year in charge of the North London club. Ironically enough, AVB was the club’s best manager in the Premier League era and they finished with a club record in points in his year in charge. Some say that record was set only because the team was being carried by wonder boy Gareth Bale but surely the manager deserves some of the credit. Since leaving Tottenham he has experienced moderate success with Russian club Zenit Saint Petersburg but he just will not stop talking about his time in the Premier League. Perhaps he is trying to angle his way in to another job in England but complaining about your former bosses is not the best way to do so.