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Its on Sky Sports News - the tv channel . Just broke not 10 minutes ago . Should be a print article soon

Happy to see Kalou used as the makeweight if it were to happen . A double whammy with Sturridge to get the step up if he leaves.

News just breaking on SSN : Chelsea have made an enquiry to Arsanal about Samir Nasri.

Won't be slating him like much of the tide goes as not a lot of people outside the club actually know how good he is at what he is given to do . That said , would like to think an influential position such as 'director' of the club would be more suited for someone who has a certain clout and more importantly , relevance in the European and general football stage . This doesn't inspire confidence for the general supporter and probably in extension - with other clubs when player deals/events like the CL Draw or any UEFA/FA official meetups happen .

Insightful interview with Cech , talking about AVB among other things : http://www.beyondthepitch.net/podcasts/edition/index.cfm/beyond-the-pitch/2011/07/02/petr-cech/

Posted on his twitter http://twitter.com/#!/Skalhuno : I'm ready Least he didn't go all commando . AVB is shaking his head if he saw this with that caption .

What a finish too , good volley and fantastic technique . A lot more clubs than just Juve should be after him .

Jose Mario Rocha, Roberto Di Matteo, Andre Villas Boas, Steve Holland and Daniel Sousa

If you run into any problems with a time limit on youtube , would be great if you could upload the entire video on here , for our benefit : http://www.mediafire.com/ Very simple and there are no bandwidth limits so any number of us can download . Thanks for the effort either way

Cheers , that conference went on for nearly or just over an hour ...and I missed half of it because ChelseaFC.com wasn't loading grr . Would be great if you could post the whole thing :tophat:

Must be just me then. Makes no sense ugh , its only the official website that isn't loading for me . :mellow:

Looks like the official site is down Here is another stream playing SSN right now , but will switch over to Chelsea TV when the conf begins : http://www.veetle.com/index.php/channel/view#4dfd05e29e75b

Indeed . Would be fantastic if Villas-Boas himself announced it in about 7 hours time Posted the original message a while ago on the twitter rumours thread , a while before it was being discussed in the AVB tactics thread . Its deserving of its own thread either-way , we'll just rename it if and when Di-Matteo is confirmed as the assistant to the manager

This story broke on twitter from a Sky Journo from Italy first and carried over quickly , just in time before AVB's first press outing as manager with the club where there will be plenty of talk , for certain . http://www.guardian.co.uk/p/3v7mv/tw A sign of good things to come ? If the recent reports in the media are to be believed , AVB has sitting through a few interviews , looking fo an able Number 2 . Very very chuffed to see Di-Matteo come back to the Bridge and be involved with the club again . Always has been one of my favourite Chels players and kudos to Villas-Boas to have picked a guy who will be respected by the players and adored by the fans , not to mention bringing some good vibes ( If there weren't enough already ) with the appointment of a former crowd favourite back in . That crop of players in particular : WIse , Poyet , Vialli , Di Matteo , Zola , all tremendous personalities whom one would've expected to have made a foray into the managerial dugouts of football . Nice touch André ! :blue scalf:

Happy that the club airs the pre-match press interchange every week for free , including this one . They do get things right from time to time

Press conferences as always aired on here : http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LivePressConferences/0,,10268,00.html including AVB's first outing at the press-room confirmed here : http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10268~2383222,00.html Excited ! :blue scalf:

http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10268~2383222,00.html The stream : I'd advise to bookmark this , all the press conferences are aired by the club prior to matchday weekend , usually on Fridays : http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LivePressConferences/0,,10268,00.html

Sky Correspondent Bailey : http://twitter.com/SkyGraemeBailey Roberto Di Matteo is being linked with return to Chelsea as Andre Villas Boas's assistant . Early stages of even a rumour as it stands right now but would be delighted if it were true . One synonymous with the faithful and its interesting that AVB is doing what Mourinho did at every club he went to - get an ex pro into the backroom who has an endearing history with the club.

Exactly this for me too. I'll be blindly and hopefully looking forward for a bright beginning going forward from this season . Every thing he'll do has the credibility of years of meticulous planning from doing a job behind the scenes without any compromise with detailed due diligence . As a young manager in the best league in the world at a club with the demand for silverware , he'll be doing everything he can to get things right to put his name down in the record books . I've got complete confidence in Villas-Boas , naive as that sounds .

If that were the case , we have problems already . . Its certainly a concern , surely Emenalo doesn't have that much clout with Roman . Every time I rationalise the notion that the manager's word should be heard first though, I think back to Jose's time when Avram came about . His role should be clearer soon , seeing his job is taken over by AVB's own assistants . AVB might not see the point in having him around at all and pitch that to the board as well , who knows ? Time will tell .

My every opinion on here is that of a purely footballing perspective . The words I use are to that context alone as well , wasn't saying you or anyone else is making a direct attack on him personally . If he's still here , there's a role and a reason behind it . It will be clearer when his role is (re)defined at some point in the future . Surely the club isn't just having him on the books for the sake of it , although the whole episode with Avram said otherwise . I'd like to think we've learn't since then . This shake-up on its own reiterates that the club is shifting gears in operations and taking a different route to maintain and hopefully soon , breed success .

A good , long , well-researched read on the new guy : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/8597265/Andre-Villas-Boas-Chelseas-new-manager-who-has-dedicated-himself-to-football.html

As far as dugout vibes go , Paul Clements over Emenalo anyday . That being said , Emenalo is/was the opposition scout and his work was done before the start of the game . I don't understand why he gets all the abuse .

http://www.thenation...s-shopping-list Comes as a part of a bigger(?) story that the club has joined in the pursuit of Sanchez now . The source itself is debatable , a daily newspaper in the UAE . Written by their Premier League correspondent . The story could be a big pile of poo of course , the management page on the official website still has them listed . Big radical changes that some of us saw coming ? Is it to accomodate AVB's own backroom staff coming in ?Our entire scouting network has been disbanded as well , with no 'director of football ' around . It'll be a very interesting next few weeks right upto the season opener .

This is the best google translate could do : Falcao said it was 'honored' by interest from Chelsea and Real, but says it http://translate.goo...e-fica.html?utm Sounds like he's being respectful to the Porto fans . 90 k in his bank a/c every week and 26 million the other way might give him his first ChelseaTV exclusive .