Villas-Boas Quits

TheRedDevil10

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Paully D

I'm sure he'll be a good job for a year or two at Chelsea before Abramovich sacks him.

SEPT 23 1989

Hope he knows what he is doing going to work for the Russian

Ush1

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Hope he knows what he is doing going to work for the Russian

Getting sh*t loads of cash I'd imagine.

smokedeels

Some job... massive pay, great severance package and nobody thinks any less of you for getting sacked because the owner is insane.

eagle eye

We'll get to see what hes made of now. Interesting times ahead at Chelsea. I expect the transfer market to liven up now.

dizzywizlw

smokedeels wrote: »

Some job... massive pay, great severance package and nobody thinks any less of you for getting sacked because the owner is insane.

Being Taoiseach is great :pac:

Mitch Connor

Why are managers treated so differently to players? Why is a manager simply allowed to quit mid contract? Not having a go at VB, but I do find it odd that a club can sell a player, or hold on to them, but while there are release clauses for managers and compensation, they can just quit as McLeish and VB have done (not exclusive to them, obviously)

Gillington

Robbed from twitter

The thing I love most about Andre Villas-Boas is that pronouncing his name correctly makes you sound like Sean Connery.

Dont be at yourself

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Why are managers treated so differently to players? Why is a manager simply allowed to quit mid contract? Not having a go at VB, but I do find it odd that a club can sell a player, or hold on to them, but while there are release clauses for managers and compensation, they can just quit as McLeish and VB have done (not exclusive to them, obviously)

Actually, the situation is basically the same for the manager and players in this case. Villas Boas quit by apparently paying his 13 million release clause, which he'll no doubt be invoicing Chelsea for.

Aguero could do the same thing, if he had 35 million or whatever lying around.

What is bizarre, and what will no doubt change, is that clubs simply "release" managers, often at great cost. Take Benitez: With a 5 year contract, he was paid off something in the region of £6 million pounds, and then joined Inter within months. That sort of thinking is crazy. Apparently a manager is worth paying a salary of millions to, and obviously a crucial part of a club's success, but he has no sell-on value if things don't work out.

I'd imagine if that happened now, Benitez would be kept on our payroll and other clubs would need to buy him off us (as they would Joe Cole or Jovanvic, hopefully!).

Sgt Pepper 64

Paully D wrote: »

I'm sure he'll be a good job for a year or two at Chelsea before Abramovich sacks him.

Yep, after next years quadruple.

Honestly though, other teams should be very thankful, that Roman hasnt always succeeded possibly through his own actions.
But this might just be the day he might just gets it right and who will be laughing then eh? eh? eh?!

Romans like the perfect comic book hero who has one fatal flaw just to make it fair on the rest of ya!

And lets face it - its only Man U who have ever given us any real competition.
Would Arsenal fans swap their manager for a EPL title?....... I wonder!

Chelsea are back and the cheque books out - be very very afraid!

Jax Teller

Em did chelsea not pay to get rid of him with Jose?

TheTownie

Slight typo needs fixing.

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

Chelsea are back and because the cheque books out - be very very afraid!

Headshot

Im disappointed he left Porto without giving the CL a shot with them

Johner

From Chelsea Chat,

New song for AVB,

Your getting sacked in the morning, sacked in the morning....

Nuri Sahin

Headshot wrote: »

Im disappointed he left Porto without giving the CL a shot with them

Exactly my sentiment.

Like Klopp, Mazzarri and Garcia at their respective clubs, I really hoped he'd stay with his team for at least one more season what with earning CL.

uncleoswald

For a guy who is so desperate to stay out of Mourinho's shadow its a disappointing choice. Of course he has every right to chase his fortune now in case this season went horribly wrong and he was no longer flavour of the month. And maybe in a few years he'll be associated with Chelsea success even more then Mourinho.

It would be funny if Chelsea did a Villa now and changed their minds leaving Boas with a 13million bill.

CSF

uncleoswald wrote: »

It would be funny if Chelsea did a Villa now and changed their minds leaving Boas with a 13million bill.

That bill would be snapped off his hands in seconds elsewhere.

TheTownie

Regardless of how he performs at Chelsea, the guy is a quality coach. Mourinho was completely against letting him leave his backroom staff at Inter back in '09 because he knew how hard it would be to replace him. His departure is pretty much the reason they don't talk anymore.

Here is a audio clip of Marcotti talking about Villas-Boas and Porto. Love listening to him, one of my favourite journalists.

Kess73

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Hope he knows what he is doing going to work for the Russian

He has worked at Chelsea before so I reckon he knows what he wants.