Are we all expecting too much of AVB in his first season? This is only his third job as a manager of a football team and he finds himself in what is probably one of the most difficult and demanding jobs in football at Chelsea. He has managed Academica for a few months, Porto for one season and now he is being asked to deliver trophies left right and centre by some people. Similar to the first point, he was originally a scout. You can be one of the best scouts in the world like he was under Mourinho but once it comes to managing a team it is something completely different. You have to think on your feet and change things during the game which is very different to compiling a report a few weeks before. The players he is dealing with are virtually impossible to control effectively unless you are Mourinho. The size of those egos (Terry, Cole, Lampard, Drogba, Malouda spring to mind) have been so key to our recent successes that they can run the dressing room He has inherited a squad which has stayed almost the same since 2007 at least. Therefore most of them are getting old and no longer have it in them to realistically compete for titles. It has been their errors as much as Andre's that has led to some poor results this season He is 34. Do you realistically expect a 34 year old who has barely managed 115 games to be able to outwit Alex Ferguson who has been in the Man U job since Villas Boas was 9? Lets be realistic he is somebody who is still learning and meant to be here for the long run and not brought in as a quick fix like Hiddink was How many points have we dropped because of AVB and his tactics? Kalou's stupidity against Valencia, refereeing incompetence against Man U twice, having one of 'those' days against QPR, being forced to change our tactics very early on because of injuries against Spurs, general poor defending and finishing against Wigan and Fulham, Torres' poor finishing against Norwich. Yet for all of these at least one person held AVB accountable