Andre Villas-Boas

[Blues Harp]

Spuds reject? No thanks !!

 

[Tubey]

On a par with Silva for me in the "best of a bad bunch of options" stakes.

 

[wiggum23]

I want him for no other reason than the £680 Paddy Power have to pay me if he does.

Him not being MON/Allardyce/Pulis is a lovely added bonus.

 

[blulouie]

With the massive exception of Eriksen he signed some poor buys at Spurs with the Gareth Bale money

Soldado
Chichires
Ettiene Capoue
Lamela
Paulinho (although has now come good in Spain)

tbf it was too many all at once that made the start to his second season so poor,

A bit like Koeman here a very encouraging big improvement in his first season was largely forgotten following a really poor transfer window, a much poorer start and damaging 6-0 and 5-0 defeats by City and Liverpool interspersed by two London derby defeats, including QPR and a defeat to West Brom

His time at Chelsea that preceded that by a bit was also largely disappointing and he left the normally title challengers adrift of even fourth place Arsenal by three points

Besides all that he was great at both clubs lol

tbf it was too many all at once

Sounds familiar

Ettiene Capoue

Coming good at Watford now

Paulinho (

Really good now

Not many duffers on that list , I like the way he moved on the likes of Huddleston etc.
Dont think he made many mistakes in the transfer market and some really boss signings .Erikson Lukaku Courtois have gone on to be Top Class.
Maybe he could do the same for us.
Sure beats O'neil Big Sam & Dyche.

 

[atrottel]

His teams used to get absolutely violated by the RS as well so he'll fit right in.

I think we also had a hand in him leaving Chelsea and Spurs with bad defeats to us...

/*fires up Matt_Damon toolbar*/

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.

One set back was a tough trip to Goodison Park, where Spurs were leading up until the 90th minute, before two late Everton goals in as many minutes, snatched victory away from the North London side.

Some scorers against his teams: Steven Pienaar (2); Denis Stracqualursi; Apostolos Velios; Nikica Jelavic

 

[Chris O'Connor]

I think with AVB you just have to wonder if he has the steel to learn and improve over time. He was impossibly young for the Chelsea job and incorrectly thought of as a Mourinho MkII. And yeah, he was hit and miss at Spurs, although I'm not certain he had full control of the Bale money signings. As we've seen ourselves, a high quantity of poorly thought out recruitment can be damaging.

He did pretty well at Zenit, though: picked them up 2/3 into the season and narrowly missed out on the title, won it in his second season with a very good defensive record. In his last season they finished 3rd, won their version of the FA cup and won their CL group.

No idea about his time in China. Looks like he finished second with Shanghai this year but the only thing we can really say is that he earned a wedge and evidently wants to go somewhere else now.

He's a weird one in that he has extensive experience but is still very young and has something to prove. I'd personally like us to take the gamble, although I was saying the same thing last year before we hired Koeman.

Some good points, but its so hard to compare relative success abroad with the premiership which to my mind anyway is far more competitive throughout the entirety of the whole league than almost any other league, that's not to be confused with the best league or having the best teams either.

He obviously had done well abroad to attract Chelsea to him in the first place but was largely found out here and latterly dropped some of their big names, being unable to get them to perform. They did go on to win the champions league after he left but had to recover from a disastrous 3-1 reverse in Napoli in his final European game, the first knock-out round.

For me his premier league past is largely an unhappy one and although I would get behind him its pretty much because I would whoever came however much I disagreed.

 

[kenada_blue]

With the massive exception of Eriksen he signed some poor buys at Spurs with the Gareth Bale money

Soldado
Chichires
Ettiene Capoue
Lamela
Paulinho (although has now come good in Spain)

tbf it was too many all at once that made the start to his second season so poor,

A bit like Koeman here a very encouraging big improvement in his first season was largely forgotten following a really poor transfer window, a much poorer start and damaging 6-0 and 5-0 defeats by City and Liverpool interspersed by two London derby defeats, including QPR and a defeat to West Brom

His time at Chelsea that preceded that by a bit was also largely disappointing and he left the normally title challengers adrift of even fourth place Arsenal by three points

Besides all that he was great at both clubs lol

They did an Everton under him. Complete with a DOF wasting a fortune I believe.

 

[kenada_blue]

I think with AVB you just have to wonder if he has the steel to learn and improve over time. He was impossibly young for the Chelsea job and incorrectly thought of as a Mourinho MkII. And yeah, he was hit and miss at Spurs, although I'm not certain he had full control of the Bale money signings. As we've seen ourselves, a high quantity of poorly thought out recruitment can be damaging.

He did pretty well at Zenit, though: picked them up 2/3 into the season and narrowly missed out on the title, won it in his second season with a very good defensive record. In his last season they finished 3rd, won their version of the FA cup and won their CL group.

No idea about his time in China. Looks like he finished second with Shanghai this year but the only thing we can really say is that he earned a wedge and evidently wants to go somewhere else now.

He's a weird one in that he has extensive experience but is still very young and has something to prove. I'd personally like us to take the gamble, although I was saying the same thing last year before we hired Koeman.

He was told to usher out Lampard, Terry, Drogba etc as they were getting old. It backfired spectacularly.

 

[Chris O'Connor]

They did an Everton under him. Complete with a DOF wasting a fortune I believe.

Franco Baldini?

 

[davids]

Some good points, but its so hard to compare relative success abroad with the premiership which to my mind anyway is far more competitive throughout the entirety of the whole league than almost any other league, that's not to be confused with the best league or having the best teams either.

He obviously had done well abroad to attract Chelsea to him in the first place but was largely found out here and latterly dropped some of their big names, being unable to get them to perform. They did go on to win the champions league after he left but had to recover from a disastrous 3-1 reverse in Napoli in his final European game, the first knock-out round.

For me his premier league past is largely an unhappy one and although I would get behind him its pretty much because I would whoever came however much I disagreed.

To be fair I imagine you'd be able to pick holes in the career of any manager we'd be in the market to sign.

 

[Eggs]

I want him for no other reason than the £680 Paddy Power have to pay me if he does.

Him not being MON/Allardyce/Pulis is a lovely added bonus.

..best priced 10-1 now, was 25s earlier this morning.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

I remember reading that he wanted a return to Portugal for family reasons after his China contract had finished.

Supposedly he left Zenit as well to go back to Portugal stating family reasons.

 

[wiggum23]

..best priced 10-1 now, was 25s earlier this morning.

I got 33-1 last night so hoping he continues to drop and I can lay it on the exchanges.

 

[bluestevon]

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

At Chelsea he had reached the QF with them already - and the replacement went on with the same team to win it that season
They where also in 5th in the league 3 behind Arsenal in 4th when they sacked him with 11 games left, they ultimately finished in 6th behind even Newcastle and 6 off Arsenal - and that was even with all the problems caused by a senior player revolt (mainly Lampard and Terry who he had dropped), he was also only 34 when he got that job and a lot less experienced and probably too young in reality.

At spurs how exactly did he fail abysmally, he finished 5th with them and only lost out by 1 point to Arsenal for 4th (72 points was their highest ever total until last year as well) finished with higher points than Pocchetino managed his first two seasons also, then had the task of replacing by far and away their best player and top scorer the next season and was sacked only 16 games in when they where in 7th but only 5 points away from the eventual champions man city, he also won all the group stage games in the EL that season before they fired him.

In both cases - he was sacked unfairly, first because of the owner getting involved after players who'd been dropped went directly to him about it, and at Spurs because they where utter bellends who then appointed Redknapp and then Sherwood before lucking out with Pocchetino and a world class striker emerging from their youth set-up unexpectedly

 

[kenada_blue]

Franco Baldini?

Yeah. He came in when they spent the Bale money