Andre Villas-Boas

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brieverton said:
Not impressed by him to date. Sort of middle of the road between an aspirational elite manager and a survival specialist.

Has plenty of experience for his age which is a plus as long as he is a learning manager and not stuck in his ways like Martinez.

Would have my doubts if he is capable of making the sort of impact required to address our problems and do it quickly but if it's him he'll have my total support.
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willjo said:
http://outsideoftheboot.com/2015/07/28/tactical-philosophy-andre-villas-boas/

Interesting read. Apologies if already posted, not read through all of this thread..
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He made a right mess of Chelsea (tbf some achievement as pretty much every other manager they've had won trophies before it went pear-shaped and they've had an awful lot)

Later he went on to Spurs and as with his pevious post in the prem, failed abysmally despite plenty of Gareth Bale money.

His tactics and project(s) as he oftened referenced his grand plans must be pretty inspirational lol
 
He is on 11 million quid per year ( maybe tax free ) in China.

It's highly unlikely he will come here or we would be prepared to pay more in compensation than we offered Watford.
 

SpongeBob brown shoes said:
I hope we get him, I put a tenner on him at 33-1 last night on paddy power based on GOT rumours, I've got to stop drinking
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bluestevon said:
In short, yup, he's never failed badly at any club he's been at. At Chelsea he got them flying g through into the quarters of the cl and matteo saw benefited from it to win the thing, did very well at spurs. And in Russia did something a lot of good foreign managers have failed to do and actually succeded and win stuff, emery and a lot of others have flopped massively in similar moves.

Doesn't play the style I like, but knows how to put a team together that gets results.

Compared to the other names thrown around, he's both safer and with much more potential to move us forward again.
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At Chelsea they were on a bad run in the league and three points adrift of Arsenal in fourth, a position highly unusual for the perennial trophy winners and often serious league title contenders at that time and had just suffered a damaging 3-1 defeat to Napoli in the first knock-out phase of the Champions League which was remarkably rescued by a really memorable 4-1 home win AFTER Matteo had taken over an apparently lost cause was somehow rescued.

This taken from wiki are his last days at Chelsea

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On 29 October, Chelsea lost their second derby under Villas-Boas in a 5–3 defeat at home to Arsenal after falling to a 1–0 defeat to Queens Park Rangers. Then three weeks later, his Chelsea side lost a second successive home game in a 2–1 defeat to Liverpool. Days later, he once again lost to Liverpool in a 2–0 defeat in the League Cup quarter-final.

On 11 February 2012, pressure began to mount on Villas-Boas as Chelsea dropped out of the top four in the Premier League following a 2–0 league defeat against Everton. Villas-Boas responded by cancelling his squad's day off and called them in for an inquest, which provoked several senior players to question his tactics in front of owner Roman Abramovich.[22] On 21 February 2012, during a Champions League match against Napoli, Villas-Boas left Frank Lampard, Michael Essien and Ashley Cole on the bench. Chelsea lost 3–1 and the club's technical director asked for an explanation of the team selection on behalf of Abramovich.[23] On 4 March 2012, following a 1–0 league defeat against West Brom which left Chelsea three points adrift of Arsenal in the battle for fourth place in the Premier League, Villas-Boas was relieved of his managerial duties by Chelsea, with assistant manager '

At Spurs, like Martinez here his first season to his real credit was a largely very successful one with 72 points and only just missing out on fourth. It was his second season where it all went pear shaped...

Again. from wiki...

'Following the sale of star player Gareth Bale to Real Madrid for a world record fee of £85.3 million,[35] Villas-Boas was active in the transfer market before the start of the 2013–14 Premier League season. Key acquisitions included defensive midfielder Étienne Capoue, midfielder Paulinho, striker Roberto Soldado, the versatile Nacer Chadli, ball-playing defender Vlad Chiricheș, winger Érik Lamela and playmaker Christian Eriksen. Departures from the club included Tom Huddlestone, Clint Dempsey, Steven Caulker and Scott Parker.[36]

On 16 December 2013, Tottenham announced that Villas-Boas had left the club "by mutual consent."[37] The dismissal, with Spurs lying seventh in the Premier League and having won all six of their Europa League group games, followed a series of disappointing domestic league results that included a 6–0 defeat away to Manchester City and culminated in a 0–5 home defeat to Liverpool.'

I suppose there are some similarities here to Koemans spell with us, the first season not too bad at all and a vast improvement on our last two, but then some largely disastrous incoming transfers and a markedly poorer start only getting worse by the game

Somewhat different to how you painted it
 
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