But who wants to wait 30 years when you can win the Champions League today? Who wants to wait three years when your money can buy you whatever you want today? Except that it can't. It's what the Villas-Boas escapade illustrates, and it is the foolish part of the entire situation. I know that, in the Abramovich era, we have the worst results but I think I have felt the confidence from the owner.
Let's see if he wants a change in the club or not. The pattern of behaviour of the owner has led to a downfall [of managers] in similar situations, or even 'better' situations. What will be his reaction? It will be one of two: either a continuation of the project and full support from above; or a continuation of the cultural pattern that has happened before.
We don't know. We don't know if it'll be tomorrow or in two years from now. It'll depend on what is the understanding of what is happening at the moment. These are the words of Andre Villas-Boas just days before he was sacked.
The plea "to back me" to Abramovich is palpable in those words. And backing is what Villa-Boas needed after being given the task of transforming the club by moving older players along. Did Abramovich think that the players would simply fold their hands while they were being marginalized? If you want such a transformation, then you must back the person to which you entrust the task. Abramovich's failure to give Villas-Boas that support is the first injustice of the situation.
The former Porto boss seems to be in a battle for control with some elements at the club who are, at best, ambivalent towards him. If Abramovich were to make it clear that there can only be one winner in that battle, then those dissenters would either have to like it or lump it. When Villas-Boas cried in reference of Chelsea players that "They don't have to back my project, only the owner needs to back my project," there couldn't have been a clearer SOS than that. No one who says that the owner had the prerogative to do as he chose understands the ethical implication of the situation.
It is like abandoning an army in the battlefield. Surely everyone will see the injustice of that. Villas-Boas adds further commentary on the pathetic situation.
I didn't want to be allowed transitional period. At this level you shouldn't be allowed a transitional year. But the project for next year is good and we will be able to compete at a different level. Next year we will be fighting for title, for sure. I have no doubts in my mind that I will be here next season.
Another writer observes , days before the sack:. Roman Abramovich is not known for his common sense in managerial matters but if he has any at all he will stick with Andre Villas-Boas. But what did he expect? Chelsea's decision comes on the back of Saturday's defeat by West Bromwich Albion and a run of just three Premier League wins in their last 12 games. The year-old Portuguese only took over as manager in June Former Chelsea midfielder Roberto di Matteo has been put in charge as first-team coach on an interim basis until the end of the season.
A statement on the club's website read: "Unfortunately the results and performances of the team have not been good enough and were showing no signs of improving at a key time in the season. They visit Championship side Birmingham for an FA Cup fifth-round replay on Tuesday and the following week they must overturn a deficit against Italian side Napoli at Stamford Bridge to avoid exiting the Champions League at the last 16 stage.
Villas-Boas first came to Chelsea as a scout from during Jose Mourinho's tenure, and five major domestic trophies were won in that period. His first club managerial role was with Portuguese side Academica in October , but after moving to Porto the following summer he won the Portuguese League and Cup double plus the Europa League. I don't want anything from Marseille or Frank [McCourt]. It's just in relation to what I want on the sporting aspects and which was not understood.
Even for Nemanja Radonjic, I was informed that very morning. After finishing second last term, Marseille have been nothing short of shocking this campaign as they sit ninth in the table.
They are already out of Europe having finished bottom of their Champions League group, and trail fourth-placed Monaco by ten points.
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