Andre Villas-Boas confirmed as Chelsea manager (1 Viewer)

[Coventry La La La]

Andre Villas-Boas has been confirmed as Chelsea's new manager.

The former Porto boss has signed a three-year deal with the London club and will begin work immediately.

Villas-Boas, 33, is the same age as players Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba but won the Portuguese league, league cup and Europa League last season.

"Andre was the outstanding candidate for the job. He is one of the most talented young managers in football today," Chelsea said in a statement.

"He has already achieved much in a relatively short space of time. His ambition, drive and determination matches that of Chelsea and we are confident Andre's leadership of the team will result in greater successes in major domestic and European competitions.

"Andre will bring his coaching experience back to a club he is already very familiar with, having previously worked here for three years. He has always been highly regarded at Chelsea and everyone here looks forward to welcoming him back and working with him."

Chelsea paid the £13.3m compensation to release the Portuguese coach from his Porto contract, with Villas-Boas succeeding former Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti, who was sacked after a trophyless season.

Andre Villas-Boas wiki page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Villas-Boas

 

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[Covstu]

Puts it into perspective when a club can pay £13.3M for a manager........

 

[Cov City Daytrader 87]

Interesting he's never played a game of football and has done very well. Does anyone know any other managers that have not played the game, but were successful?

 

[CovfanDan]

Used to do alot of the scouting the oppo for Mourinho didnt he...
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01927/art18-1_1927022a.pdf

 

[ccfctommy]

Interesting he's never played a game of football and has done very well. Does anyone know any other managers that have not played the game, but were successful?

Jose Mourinho?

 

[Ernie Machin]

I'm actually older than him. FML.

 

[SkyBlue_Am]

I think I predicted he would be signed or at least be one of the top candidates in another thread in this forum

Might be a bit too soon but all the best to him absolutely destroyed the league with Porto and won the treble got a win percentage of like 91%

Be interesting how he controls the Chelsea dressing room a lot of big characters in there who are around same age or older than him....

 

[covladzak]

I'll be interested to see how long he lasts.. No glory a season I bet..

 

[ccfc2011]

He done very well at porto undefeated all season plays attacking football but can he do it at chelseas will be a different story he was a coach at chelsea under the special one
will he be able to cope with the pressure of chelseas big ego players he needs to win champo league to keep his job if not ne will be sacked.