Chelsea Sack Andre Villas-Boas

[ulsterchelsea 3,221]

Who the fuck claimed AVB should be sacked?

no idea, who the Fuck DID claim he should be sacked? Don't get your knickers twisted sweetheart.

[zxZXzx 4]

At this point sacking AVB will only bring more uncertainty and more tactical problems. As stated as everyone before me, the players are the ones that are having problems with the system, they are the ones that do whatever they want on the field what can Villas Boa do? Does he play? NO. He is the manager he is a tactician and a orator. Yes he screams, kicks and jumps when on the field as a normal player. But he does it from a box (and he is not a goalkeeper), if players some players are not responding to this is their fault.

Chelsea is tainted, and sadly it is tainted by their own legends. They have a hierarchy, Drogba, Cole, Lampart, Terry they are in power right now because without a regular manager they have taken the charge of the father figure, of course Abramovic is the grandpa with all the money, but they act selfishly. I think I'm jumping too hard by the next statement I'm going to make and I will get some hate out of it but is how I feel.

In my opinion Lampard one of our most beloved legends is killing us from inside, he underperforms and I can bet he is screwing with the other players brains, this is a guy with a 3 digit IQ he is not dumb and he knows from past experience that he is a agent of influence in the dressing room. I'm very sure that he has something to do with the recent reports of arguments between players and manager. Sadly manipulation is a very strong tool.

I just hope this period we are going through passes by before the end of the season I would be heart broken if we don't classify to the Champions League. The best option right now to Lampard would be to retire and seek his managing career I can see him become one of the greatest managers.

Sorry true legends dont do shit like that,not best example,maybe its due Ferguson,but Giggs/Scholes etc never shaked shit(at least i never heard anything),mainly because Ferguson would kick their @sses far away from the club.

[kiaretta985 131]

The players 'revolting' against him should be sacked immediately but we all know that won't happen.

it won't happen NOW, because otherwise we'll have to end the season with a shortlist of 12-13 players!

[Term-X 7,891]

^ Lmao at the headline, it seems AVB is to blame for everything these days.

[kiaretta985 131]

Here seems to be the reason the starting eleven was chosen vs Napoli. Don't know how credible but where there's smoke theirs fire.

http://www.emirates2...-02-22-1.444412

So Cole came here to win medals... it's a hard thing to do, if you play like shit!

[kiaretta985 131]

In my opinion Lampard one of our most beloved legends is killing us from inside, he underperforms and I can bet he is screwing with the other players brains, this is a guy with a 3 digit IQ he is not dumb and he knows from past experience that he is a agent of influence in the dressing room. I'm very sure that he has something to do with the recent reports of arguments between players and manager. Sadly manipulation is a very strong tool.

if your opinion is true, then we better sell him before we're fighting against wolves and bolton for a place in EPL!

[zolayes 14,489]

This Player Power should STOP. The players know they can have their way from past experience. NOW THIS SHOULD STOP. THEY SHOULD BE KICKED OUT!! I dont care if its Lampard, Drogba, Terry or Cole. I am fed up of these seniors who keep questioning Managers like Scolari, AVB, Carlo, etc

since they are all past their best now it would be stupid to give in to them.

[capriccioso 2,545]

At this point sacking AVB will only bring more uncertainty and more tactical problems. As stated as everyone before me, the players are the ones that are having problems with the system, they are the ones that do whatever they want on the field what can Villas Boa do? Does he play? NO. He is the manager he is a tactician and a orator. Yes he screams, kicks and jumps when on the field as a normal player. But he does it from a box (and he is not a goalkeeper), if players some players are not responding to this is their fault.

Chelsea is tainted, and sadly it is tainted by their own legends. They have a hierarchy, Drogba, Cole, Lampart, Terry they are in power right now because without a regular manager they have taken the charge of the father figure, of course Abramovic is the grandpa with all the money, but they act selfishly. I think I'm jumping too hard by the next statement I'm going to make and I will get some hate out of it but is how I feel.

In my opinion Lampard one of our most beloved legends is killing us from inside, he underperforms and I can bet he is screwing with the other players brains, this is a guy with a 3 digit IQ he is not dumb and he knows from past experience that he is a agent of influence in the dressing room. I'm very sure that he has something to do with the recent reports of arguments between players and manager. Sadly manipulation is a very strong tool.

I just hope this period we are going through passes by before the end of the season I would be heart broken if we don't classify to the Champions League. The best option right now to Lampard would be to retire and seek his managing career I can see him become one of the greatest managers.

Agree with nearly all of that, but the English faction of the dressing room has been on the wane for several years now. It's Drogba's mixed foreign mob that hold the real power. I guess thats why Lampard was agitating for a move away in January.

Previously, it was the English politicians, spearheaded by Terry and Lampard that were more powerful. But that was only due to them being the best players at the club, and because they had a glut of allies and were also virtually unopposed. After José left, the foreigners allied themselves with Roman, and ever since then have been favoured by him more so than the Englishmen. Also, Terry and Lampard have declined not only in playing standards, but also influence over the squad, which was exacerbated by the Wayne Bridge thing.

AVB has to turn to the history books and pull a Stalin to dig himself out of this hole. Side with Drogba on every single issue- let him manage the team if need be, give him the armband on a permanent basis- whatever it takes to keep the foreign faction onside. Then let him go in the summer, sell Lampard and demote the other politicians to the reserves or transfer list them as well. While he's at it, he should ensure the loyalty of the younger players by building a cult of personality around himself.

With the challengers to the power vacuum gone, Villas-Boas will stand as the undoubted leader of Chelsea Football Club.

[Aussiedan 154]

In my opinion Lampard one of our most beloved legends is killing us from inside, he underperforms and I can bet he is screwing with the other players brains, this is a guy with a 3 digit IQ he is not dumb and he knows from past experience that he is a agent of influence in the dressing room. I'm very sure that he has something to do with the recent reports of arguments between players and manager. Sadly manipulation is a very strong tool.

I just hope this period we are going through passes by before the end of the season I would be heart broken if we don't classify to the Champions League. The best option right now to Lampard would be to retire and seek his managing career I can see him become one of the greatest managers.

Yeah, maybe he could replace AVB and manage us.

[TacticalBlues 2,817]

I find the lack of respect for AVB quite sad tbh. Not just from some fans but the media as a whole. Here's an excellent article, by none other than... Goal.com

WENGER AND AVB CONDUCT THEMSELVES WITH ADMIRABLE DIGNITY

Arsene Wenger and Andre Villas-Boas - two capable men trying to cope in difficult jobs in toxic circumstances.

Arsenal and Chelsea remain two of the world's most popular teams and managing either club comes with an inevitable degree of scrutiny. It is clear that both sides, on the field, are going through a period of subdued confidence and incompetence. Results have gone against them, in recent times, and performance levels have been abysmally poor in places.

AC Milan and Napoli, no world beaters, routinely dismissed the challenges of London's finest in their last-16 first legs but the fact that both are struggling should be no excuse for the vultures to circle Wenger and AVB. That it has become normal for reporters to ask a manager whether or not he thinks he will be sacked before the next match is a sad indictment on modern football.

Chelsea are five games without a win, admittedly, and there is evidence of some internal strife. However, they are still ostensibly no further away from their season objectives than when Villas-Boas first took up the helm. In with a chance of silverware in the FA Cup, not yet out of the Champions League with a taxing, but not impossible, home encounter to negotiate, and still in the mix to re-qualify next season.

Arsene Wenger's legacy is unsurpassed in modern English football by all but one man, Sir Alex Ferguson, and yet he is cowed into defending himself and practically pleading for his own job after every recent game.

It seems, for a hungry press pack, neither Wenger not Villas-Boas can be sacked quick enough. Instead of willing Arsenal and Chelsea to success, there is a voyeuristic appetite for failure and all the prying questions that it permits.

Pre and post-match press conferences open with anodyne remarks about the game upcoming or just passed. But those formalities, in the eyes of the press, are soon dispensed with and the future of the manager can be peremptorily discussed. Interviews have reached a disrespectful, almost inhumane, low.

Why should either manager be held accountable to a press pack desperate for 'the line'? Both are coping with remarkable dignity while basic manners and perspective are wantonly disregarded.

[Justin_3d 1,140]

I do have to say something that I find funny.

AVB was at the beginning like, yay we got an awesome squad and can challenge for 4 trophies!

Now, I am excited about next year project.

That is the best way to say I fucked up, now let me get another year to do it right!

[Justin_3d 1,140]

"We have to raise players' ambitions and motivations to be successful," Villas-Boas said. "We can grab at the amount of trophies we have won in the last six years, and that is a good reference point, but we push ourselves now for a new challenge. The players are responsible and professional enough to respect the manager's position. These are players who deserve respect from me, also, but we want them to triumph as people and as social role models. If they do that, they triumph as players out on the pitch as well.

"Most of them are experienced and have grown to think that talent is just talent, but we think there is something extra we can get out of them: by freeing them up and focusing on ambition and motivation. I have spoken already to a couple of the players on the phone and they told me this is like a fresh new start."

So this was AVB delusional thoughts at the beginning of the season.

I am sure he won't be saying the same thing now!

[Matterz 67]

I find the lack of respect for AVB quite sad tbh. Not just from some fans but the media as a whole. Here's an excellent article, by none other than... Goal.com

Respect is something that needs to be earned, AVB has hardly done that.

[TacticalBlues 2,817]

Respect is something that needs to be earned, AVB has hardly done that.

Whatever he hasn't done doesn't justify the media's treatment of him.

[Madmax 9,219]

Respect is something that needs to be earned, AVB has hardly done that.

If being the youngest ever manager to win a UEFA tournament doesn't get you respect, little else will.

From the start though it was crystal clear his age and 'experience' (lack of), would be used as a stick to beat him with when things would get astray, like they normally do at Chelsea, where the inmates run the asylum. Explicit cold-shouldering of the media doesn't help his cause with them. Then you have the lazy journalist's most fallen-back upon line when writing a Chelsea-in-crisis headline - 'Russian billionaire oligarch running out of patience'. It all chugs along to a perfectly predictable yet infinitely tiring tune.

[RX8 40]

What a True and Faq

"When he was at Porto, AVB was renowned for his tactical genius - the way he could make changes during the course of a game, the way he could change the flow of a game - but he hasn't shown that here." Jeff Stelling

AVB hasn´t Show any Skill at all for the reason Chelsea decide to make him the Boss in here.... His Tactical display is Wrong... He Can Turn the games every single game is the same thing Chelsea is so Predictable that Even League 2 Team can complicate us.....

[manpe 10,861]

What a True and Faq

"When he was at Porto, AVB was renowned for his tactical genius - the way he could make changes during the course of a game, the way he could change the flow of a game - but he hasn't shown that here." Jeff Stelling

AVB hasn´t Show any Skill at all for the reason Chelsea decide to make him the Boss in here.... His Tactical display is Wrong... He Can Turn the games every single game is the same thing Chelsea is so Predictable that Even League 2 Team can complicate us.....

Our players give us little to none tactical diversity. You bring on Malouda, Kalou, Mikel, Lampard, Meireles or Torres in hope to change things... it's an empty hope.

[RX8 40]

Our players give us little to none tactical diversity. You bring on Malouda, Kalou, Mikel, Lampard, Meireles or Torres in hope to change things... it's an empty hope.

There is at Least 3 o 4 Tactical System Boas can play with this Chelsea Players.... of Course some might be on the Bench and play Less but He Can Change things....