ritchboy:

BlueDiva is over the moon!

debosky:

When outsiders can read RA's actions better than Nateevs, it shows you his opinion is not worth more than toilet paper.

dayokanu:

h[b][size=18pt]A[/size][/b]stala-[b][size=18pt]V[/size][/b]ista [b][size=18pt]B[/size][/b]aby

Ibime:

AVB = The right manager at the wrong time. . . .

chamotex:

Nateevs attends all Chelsea's training sessions you know. So he is an insider

i am willing to bet he won't survive a season in the premier league. villas-boas is an excellent manager but asking him to swim with the sharks in the premier league at this stage is premature. he won't succeed like mourinho because of one single fact - mourinho was given the resources to revamp the squad in the way he wanted. what is villa-boas going to do to the cache of old armoury already in chelsea? sell them and get new ones or he'll just continue to walk with the old dogs?

then there's the issue of the media pressure attached to managing a club like chelsea. . . .the role was bread and butter for jose mourinho. it was something he craved even before coming to england. is villas-boas that kind of man? will he act normal when skysports journalists stick their mics in his face after a bad loss? will he cope or sink under pressure like scolari did? these are the issues. chelsea will ruin this charismatic excellent manager cos if he fails to succeed, his stock will sink and it will be damn too unfortunate.

nateevs is frustrated. . . .

i hope the mods keep this thread safe till the next 12 months when we will be discussing villas-boas performance after one season - we could be discussing his departure as well. i trust nateevs though to cook more excuses. lethargic reasons like qpr's win ratio was better than chelsea's or villas-boas slept with roman's mistress and all sorts of nonsense

fear? he will be another ferguson's bi[i]t[/i]ch . . .roman keeps signing them, fergie keeps beating them and getting them sacked. the only people you can use the word fear for are the fans of arsenal, man city, tottenham, etc. . . .i support man utd and my team has won more league titles than chelsea since the roman revolution that have spent over £1 billion on chelsea.

no one here is saying villas-boas is not good enough. . . .he is an excellent manager but not suited for chelsea with the quick fire and tyrannical approach roman deploys when there's a little title drought. in any other club willing to build a squad for a short period, the young manager will excel 100%. with chelsea, where titles are meant to be delivered immediately regardless of the shape and balance of the squad, it's almost impossible.

villas-boas is an excellent manager - he pays attention to every detail. i saw one of his leaked scouting report for jose mourinho when they once worked for chelsea and boy-o-boy, i am yet to see a more detailed pre-match analysis showing the strengths n weakness of their opponent(newcastle). chelsea ended up winning 3-0.

the only glitch here is. . . . . .will chelsea create an enabling environment for this man to thrive? in any other club in the top 5, i will be very wary of what villas-boas will add but @ chelsea, i don't think so. the question of power player is there(john terry, frank lampard, drogba), then there's the owner who behaves like a tyrant and there are other issues as well.

i can't wait for next season. . . . .it looks promising already

StarBoard:

Gotta give it to you:you were the earliest advocate of sacking that toddler among Chelsea fans.
Now that you have your wish, the question as always remains:where does Chelsea go from here.
Surely this managerial musical chairs cannot go on much longer.
Roman has to look inward and see what he wants for the club long-term.
DiMatteo could rally the team but someone new would likely take over, bringing his own philosophy with him.
I'm thinking Roman might need a little patience with the new full-time guy and draw up some long-term program.

For someone who has been so critical of AVB , you're being rather magnanimous. . .

BlueDiva:

I want to believe that sacking AVB was just to show displeasure with his style.
RDM himself is also a rookie.

I don't know if the season would be salvaged, i mean Wenger is no fool.
He is an excellent manager who wouldn't want the advantage to slip from his grip.

However, i look forward to a future without AVB in it.
I expect some dead players to go and i expect we would hire an experienced manager.

I expect we would mount a serious challenge next season if we can build the right team.
A team with experience and youth side by side.

I might be critical of Torres and call him all sorts of names.
I want Torres at Chelsea next season. With good nurturing from a decent manager, FT will pick up.
Very unlikely we will get the old FT but i expect some returns from the investment made on him.

Sacking AVB is not a magic wand that will restore the season.
However, i sincerely believe it is a very good move.

Naysayers like Debosky and Sharon will come back saying "we knew he was brilliant, we were only speculating". I am bookmarking this page as I speak.


Abramovic triggers a manager's buy-out-clause of 15m (the most expensive in living memory) and you think he will tell him, "Dude all the money for transfer went into bringing you here".

You think AVB (and I like that by the way) will leave Porto where he is adored, loved by the fans and players and take a risk with a big job without having a guarantee of certain transfer targets to help with his goal.

[size=14pt]Chamotex believes if he doesn't deliver, he will be sacked. What in your definition is "deliver"? [/size]

Dude will have poo loads of money to spend (not that I like that). And average managers like Avram Grant have proven that you may need a great deal of tactical input to finish in the top four. Let alone someone who has worked with a core of the players, worked in the league, knows the league and scouted opposition teams and managers  for several years. Plus someone who is tactically sound, young, fresh and plays good football.

Goodness, he knows the already how Wenger and Fergie play even before he signed.

azpekuliar:

There is never going to be a right time to appoint the right manager. You either appoint him and let him build and entrench a philosophy at a club or allow shorterm-ism and other associated ills like player power to prevail, period! Im still calculating the real cost of sacking Ancellotti ; £28m pay-off + £13m porto fee + £?m to pay off AVB & Co. + loss of champions league revenue due to not qualifying at end of season for 2012-13 season (about £70m) + ,

Ibime:


The new manager does not only have to see the old brigade through to their end. . . he has to see out these duds.

AVB is the new messiah.
Hmmm. . .we shall see.

Let him perform or he would be shown the gate too.
Roman dont give a shyte about how much he spent in buying hm
out.

i would tear up the contracts of drogba, lampard, kalou, ashley cole, bosingwa. . . .
john terry is the only old dog i would leave in the squad with the hope that he can tattoo the ethos of the club on the brains of the new recruits.

BlueDiva:

Abrahamovic interferes too much, i agree.
He has made mistakes in the past but sacking the rookie ain't no mistake.

The old players gave us the double less than 24mths ago.
You don't completely throw out the old, you do it gradually.

In the next few seasons all the old players will be history. It is inevitable.

nateevs:

It's me against the world. . . .

Ibime:

In the real world, if you have an asset you cannot sell, you collect rents from it until you can sell it.

There was never going to be a revolution at Chelsea due to the fact that our players are too well paid to shift.

It takes a manager with a wise head to get the best out of these players.

Whilst we were waiting for our old heads to wind down their contract so we can rebuild the team, RA was busy adding unshiftable toxic assets like Torres to the team.

I hope your guys in your local viewing centre told you this!  

Chelsea has spent £100m in the last year without improving the squad one jolt - Torres, Luiz, Meireles and Ramires. In any other team, £100m would rebuild the whole first 11. 

The new manager does not only have to see the old brigade through to their end. . . he has to see out these duds.

Ibime:

In the real world, if you have an asset you cannot sell, you collect rents from it until you can sell it.

There was never going to be a revolution at Chelsea due to the fact that our players are too well paid to shift.

It takes a manager with a wise head to get the best out of these players.

Whilst we were waiting for our old heads to wind down their contract so we can rebuild the team, RA was busy adding unshiftable toxic assets like Torres to the team.

I hope your guys in your local viewing centre told you this!  

Chelsea has spent £100m in the last year without improving the squad one jolt - Torres, Luiz, Meireles and Ramires. In any other team, £100m would rebuild the whole first 11. 

The new manager does not only have to see the old brigade through to their end. . . he has to see out these duds.