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Villas-Boas flying into London today, will meet Roman Abramovich tomorrow.

I wonder who paid

Am watching now. All I see is Martin Jol press conference I'll keep updating.

I'm sure they're told whether they should be commenting on such rumours though. The only time I've seen them do this is when Torres' news was in town.. They wouldn't report this unless it's more/less confirmed that he's on the way.

LMAO. No-one will disagree with that part!

Understandable. Hopefully they'll pursue Silva and leave Luiz with us

Lmao, could they BE any more obvious?

So as soon as he or Chelsea pay the amount, he'll be confirmed as ours

Imo.. Luiz's potential value could reach £35million. His current value is £25million.

Good thing I like about this potential managerial change is, it's been relatively controversy free. Whereas left, right & centre we're being accused of tapping up by everyone, with Villas-Boas we made Porto aware we were talking to him over the weekend and they were resigned to the fact he would leave & could leave should they be compensated. It's clean, quick & caught the "media" completely off-guard. Proving how useless they are when they had us all believe, Hiddink was the man. Smart stuff by Chelsea & the board <- Seldom that is.

LMAO love the subheading!

£20million?! That can't be right.. If so, what the fuck were we doing not bidding?

It was their reporter on SSN. He said it's just a rumour at this point..

SkySports saying.. We'll lodge a €40million bid for Falcao + Moutinho.

This just proves, TalkSport is now heading towards that "unreliable" list..

Woah, just noticed it! Thanks guys. Been here for only just over a year now! So I am proud to get the "Legend" status despite that

Bold move by Villas-Boas to buy himself out of the contract. I'm sure Chelsea will reimburse that soon though.. A very positive managerial change, from going to established, older, coaches to upcoming, young, ones shows RA & the board is ready to change their approach towards the goals of this club. Time to see what the transfer window has in store for us

Indeed. However if we switch to 4-3-3 again, it's what might happen..

Is he worth sacrificing Sturridge for?

Initial movement's looked good. Likes to get forward in that striker role.. Support Striker role looks to be.

One notable difference between Villas-Boas & Mourinho will probably be his interviews and conferences.. I bet Justin will be happy about that

What announcement?

Agreed, that's what I mean. Even if he has a trophyless season, as long as progress can be seen, that should be enough to satisfy the board we are heading in the right direction.

By long-term I mean allowed the time to achieve the goals laid out for him. Yeah, it's that ^

Yeah, the history of this club would work against us hoping he's a long-term solution. Hopefully Roman's had a change of hear though & decided to stick with this one for the full length of his contract.