Let's be optimistic for a minute: Could VP be keeping the door open for us? Let's say we have spoken to him, not offering him the job. He has gone away, met Porto chairman, who offers new contract. He says he needs time, sits off, waits for EFC offer, which duly comes. In all honesty, why would he hang around there, when he hasn't lost A SINGLE LEAGUE GAME all season, yet they still um and ah over him? He could come to one of the biggest clubs in England, with one of the biggest fanbases, and a supreme history. Looking at it in the cold light of day and taking off the blue tinted specs, his agent would tell him the EFC chairman is not one who will sack him for losing three games in a row.
Ok, I know I am being optimistic, we probably haven't even spoke to him. (puts away crack pipe)