Official - AVB confirmed as Chelsea boss

[Kez 2,727]

Someone please sum up 20 pages of posts in one day for me?

Villas Boas - YES PLEASE!!

[Duppy Conqueror 1,494]

Thyce Slegger a Dutch correspondent was on Talksport earlier saying Hiddink isnt joining Chelsea as DoF, he will stick to advising Roman. Apparently has not been contacted by chelsea in over a month or so

i hope that isn`t true..as it sounds like he would like to keep meddling but without putting his head on the block by taking the job and responsibilty for his actions.

[Guest justin_3d]

If you guys did not know , Andre Villa Boas was the one who prepared and compiled Jose Mourinho's Match reports back then at Chelsea and Inter. Here's one of his reports when he was Jose's assistant in 2005. The game was Chelsea vs Newcastle at Stamford Bridge - Nov. 19th 2005 !

Villa Boas Report Chelsea 2005

Already posted men. Thanks though.

We're gonna end up loving this guy. I already like him and i barely know him yet.

He was at Chelsea, how you barely know him?

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

:goodpost:

[Term-X 7,891]

[Kostas 1,468]

:lol: :lol:

[termninja 5,290]

Someone please sum up 20 pages of posts in one day for me?

Villas Boas - YES PLEASE!!

Most of it is "I'm happy Villas-Boas is coming" and similar. Some posts contain links to articles about him coming here and his biography. There were also a few posts doubting his authority because of his game and that it will not be easy to control players such as Terry and Drogba.

[Jose M 140]

Imagine Villa-Boas's Chelsea Up against Jos'e Mourinho's Real Madrid in the Champions league, wow how epic!

[bababoom 4,478]

Haha, very funny.

[Swoopz 183]

Interesting Fact: AVB used the Fifa Manager videogame series to scout and learn many aspects of being a coach. (FM is widely recognized to being very accurate).

[Jose M 140]

If he does sign when does everyone think it will be?

[bababoom 4,478]

Interesting Fact: AVB used the Fifa Manager videogame series to scout and learn many aspects of being a coach. (FM is widely recognized to being very accurate).

Is that really true? Because a couple of months ago someone on here mentioned that but when I searched up about it nothing came up.

[termninja 5,290]

Interesting Fact: AVB used the Fifa Manager videogame series to scout and learn many aspects of being a coach. (FM is widely recognized to being very accurate).

Fifa manager? It was probably Football manager. That game is sick! Couple of gigabytes of PURE statistics. There are no textures, sounds or videos that usually make a game big.

Where you got that from, I'm really interested?

Since I'm learning from FM, I may as well become the next Villas-Boas :eyebrows:

[bababoom 4,478]

Fifa manager? It was probably Football manager. That game is sick! Couple of gigabytes of PURE statistics. There are no textures, sounds or videos that usually make a game big.

Where you got that from, I'm really interested?

Since I'm learning from FM, I may as well become the next Villas-Boas :eyebrows:

Haha I tried playing it but I don't know it felt like there was too much information and it got a bit boring, but I am definitely going to try and give it more of a chance.

[termninja 5,290]

Haha I tried playing it but I don't know it felt like there was too much information and it got a bit boring, but I am definitely going to try and give it more of a chance.

You do that. The game is absolutely amazing, though it takes some time getting used to. Anyway, I'll stop with off topic now

[Kostas 1,468]

The thing about him scouting via Football Manager was a rumour/joke running around circa 2006.

According to an article on The Independent in 2004, he could actually visit the training ground of the team we were about to play to gather information and created multiple video presentations for both Mourinho and the players. I don't see how him using FM could be regarded as anything but a gag.

Terry07, I was probably the one who mentioned it during the season.

[Ollie 4,400]

He was at Chelsea, how you barely know him?

He was at Chelsea, yes but he was just a member of staff. Just because i support Chelsea doesn't mean i know all their staff personally....

[Sheva. 5,373]

The transfer of André Villas-Boas to Chelsea will be launched on Tuesday by FC Porto.Chelsea will immediately pay the 15 million contained in the termination clause of the coach, who Monday was still in Portugal, but will travel to London, where he will sign the contract.

The financial part was of course one of the factors that led Villas-Boas to accept the proposal of Abramovich, together with the fact that the coach was understood that this could be the opportunity of a career and Chelsea is a club that knows the inside after having worked there for three years, including the technical team of Jose Mourinho.With a young coach, goes to the London-physical trainer Jose Mario Rocha, as Daniel Sousa, observant opponents FC Porto last season.

http://www.jn.pt/Pag...tent_id=1884167

[Kostas 1,468]

Guardian's Portugal journo Tom Kundert on Five reasons why Chelsea want André Villas-Boas as their new manager

I've highlighted the part about his abilities as far as transfers are concerned for future reference.

3 Transfer nous

The 33-year-old has less contol over transfers than he would in England due to the way Porto is run. They have an unrivalled scouting network in South America and a well-oiled backroom structure – and it is often the president, Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, who oversees transfers. As such, making the most of the market is one test Villas-Boas is yet to take.