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Porto were down 0:1 at half-time against Villareal. Complete reversal after the interval, final score 5:1 in favor of Porto. Falcao with 4 goals. In the final it will be either Benfica or Braga, who were both destroyed by Porto in the Portugese League. We can say it already, Villas Boas will end this season with a Europa League trophy in his cabinet. The only question is, will he stay for one more season and try to repeat Jose's accomplishment of winning back-to back UEFA Cup and Champions League with Porto, or will one of Europe's big clubs take a chance on the brightest young manager in Europe.

Boas seems like the opposite of Jose in terms of playing style - much more attacking and adventurous. I was shocked to see how Porto defended in such small numbers, refusing to commit men to defense even when Villareal attacked en masse. Look up the Villareal goal to see what I'm talking about. At half-time it seems like a folly, but in the second half Porto started playing with more aggression and creativity and they made scoring 5 goals against a pretty solid defensive team like Villareal look easy - in fact none of the goals was anything special: simple moves and passes and clinical finishing from Falcao. Can it really all be so simple? I really hope Boas stays in Porto for another season, keeps most of his players and we will get to see his team in the Champions League. Jurgen's Borussia will also be there - I can't wait to see those two get their ideas and their young players tested against Europe's big boys.

And I really hope none of our Premier League rivals take a chance on the Portugese after this year.
 
[quote author=Roopy link=topic=45135.msg1323481#msg1323481 date=1304032916]
Next manager of Rayal Madreeeeeeeeeed.
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Don't think so. Too early for that.

If I were Madrid, I would seriously consider Arsene. He is the one manager who can build a system that can compete with Barca's in terms of entertainment value. And the trophies would come too - don't think Madrid management and fans would allow him to stuff his team with young kids with no winning experience.

Funny, but Arsenal could actually use a Mourinho right now. They lack toughness and a winning mentality, which Mourinho could instill faster that anyone else in football.
 
I think he'll go to chelsea. he plays the type of football I'm sure roman wants at the bridge and also the last manager from porto didn't do too badly for them.
 
[quote author=spider-neil link=topic=45135.msg1323877#msg1323877 date=1304103604]
I think he'll go to chelsea. he plays the type of football I'm sure roman wants at the bridge and also the last manager from porto didn't do too badly for them.
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Pep Guardiola will be the next manager of Chelsea
 
Champion Porto became the first team in 33 years to complete a Portuguese Premier League season undefeated by winning 2-0 at Maritimo on Saturday with goals by winger Silvestre Varela and Brazilian striker Walter.

Porto had clinched its 25th title last month and completed the season with 84 points after 27 wins and three draws.

"Today we achieved something that is very difficult, and which will remain in our memories forever. We are very proud of our work," Porto coach Andre Villas Boas told SportTV.
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Just for reads. The Sir Bobby and Domingos part is interesting.

The rapid development of Porto's Andre Villas Boas into one of Europe's brightest young coaches is no surprise to the man who first hired him.

Villas Boas was virtually unheard of when he was appointed by Academica Coimbra in 2009 but less than two years later he is being compared to Portugal's most successful coach, Jose Mourinho, and with good reason.

In his first season in charge of Porto he has won the Portuguese title without losing a game and the 33-year-old's stock is set to rise even higher should he plot Europa League glory in the final against Braga in Dublin on Wednesday.

Should he do so he would emulate the feat of Mourinho who also took Porto to the domestic title in his first full season in charge and the UEFA Cup, beating Celtic in the final.

"It was a gamble, but he had the skills we needed. He made his ideas clear at the first meeting and took away any doubts," Academica's sporting director Luis Agostinho, who plucked Villas Boas from Inter Milan where he was working as Mourinho's assistant, told Reuters.

"Within weeks I knew he was headed for the top. He scores highly in every area I believe a coach needs to control -- tactics, player motivation, fitness."

Like Mourinho, who he also worked with at Chelsea, Villas Boas's tactical flair was spotted by the late Bobby Robson, the vastly experienced former England coach who first came into contact with him while in charge of Porto.

A keen 16-year-old student of the game, Villas Boas wrote to Robson asking why he was not selecting striker Domingos who, by strange coincidence, will guide Braga in Dublin on Wednesday.

Impressed with the teenager's passion, Robson helped him take coaching courses and introduced him to Mourinho, who hired Villas Boas as a scout on his return Porto in 2002.

"Both of them marked me. Robson gave me ideas and I grew up around Mourinho," Villas Boas said at the start of the season.

Mourinho thought so highly of Villas Boas that he took him with him to Chelsea and Inter Milan. However, when the call came from Academica it was time for the young coach to cut his teeth.

Arriving in October 2009 after the resignation of Rogerio Goncalves, Villas Boas was faced with a squad bottom of the table and still without a league win.

The transformation was dramatic as Coimbra climbed away from relegation trouble to finish in 11th place and it was not long before Porto came knocking.

"We had already been approached by Sporting, but when his beloved Porto called, you could see Villas Boas' joy immediately," Agostinho said.

His Porto side, the first to win a Portuguese title undefeated since Benfica in 1973, has more attacking flair than Mourinho's super-organised, pragmatic version that won the Champions League in 2004 and he prefers the possession game perfected by Pep Guardiola at Barcelona.

The dapper, auburn-haired Villas Boas is more softly-spoken than the polemic Mourinho, but a war of words with Benfica coach Jorge Jesus this season over refeering decisions showed he is not shy when it comes to controversy.

Despite reported interest from some of Europe's big guns he said last week that his immediate future is with Porto, at least through next season's Champions League, but winning in Dublin could fast-track him top even greater things.
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The late Sir Bobby Robson was credited with influencing the careers of many footballing greats, and Andre Villas-Boas can be added to the list.

Robson would never have imagined at the time that by responding to a letter from a young Villas-Boas in 1994 he would be igniting the career of someone now regarded as one of Europe's finest managers.

At 16 years of age, Villas-Boas had not finished his studies when he noticed that Robson, then manager of Porto, was living in the same apartment block as him in Portugal's second city.

Robson, already recognised as one of the best coaches around having achieved success with Ipswich, PSV Eindhoven and England, was just starting life at Porto having been unceremoniously jettisoned by Sporting Lisbon despite leading the Portuguese league at the time.

He would go on to win the first of three successive titles that year, but for die-hard Porto fan Villas-Boas, the Englishman was making a big mistake in keeping striker Domingos Paciencia on the bench too often.

The youngster wrote to Robson raising his concerns and the UEFA Cup-winning coach responded by asking him to supply data to support his argument.

He soon did. Back Villas-Boas sent a raft of statistics and arguments pinpointing why he was correct.

Robson was so impressed that he offered the Portuguese a trainee position with the youth team's coaching staff, and the rest is history, with Villas-Boas now in the Porto hot-seat and awaiting next week's Europa League final against Braga.

Robson took the youngster under his wing and, sensing his love of the game and of coaching in particular, sent him to Lilleshall, where he earned his coaching badges. At 17 years old, he was by far the youngest student in the class.

Villas-Boas went on to gain further experience in Scotland and at Ipswich under George Burley, before returning to the Estadio Dragao.

Having learned fluent English from his grandmother, who was English, Villas-Boas jumped at the opportunity to take on the role of head coach with the British Virgin Isles.

His 18-month tenure ended after two defeats in two matches though, and he returned to his homeland to pursue his coaching dream at Porto, where he was offered the role as coach of the under-19 side by the new man in charge - Jose Mourinho.

Mourinho remembered the attention to detail that Villas-Boas had wowed Robson with and promoted him to the role of opposition scout.

Villas-Boas took on the mantle of the club's super-sleuth, compiling thick dossiers on the team's next opposition by sneaking into their bases to watch training sessions.

'It takes me four days to put an entire file together,' Villas Boas said after joining Mourinho to carry out the same job at Chelsea. 'It is very comprehensive. The reports are given to all the players as well as the manager. The idea is that when the players go out on the pitch, they are totally prepared, so there can be very few surprises during the game.'

Mourinho described Villas-Boas as his 'eyes and ears' and took him to Inter, but his young apprentice was frozen out of the equation when he revealed he had management ambitions of his own.

The pair do not speak, but Villas-Boas denies that he has a problem with Mourinho, recently describing the Real Madrid manager as 'the greatest coach of all time'.

Villas-Boas, then 32, got his first crack at club management with strugglers Academica in October 2009 where he led a rock-bottom team to a respectable 11th-place finish. They also reached the Portuguese cup semi-final before defeat to Porto.

A wretched third-place finish by Porto, and Academica's heroic performance in the semi-final defeat, persuaded Porto president Pinto Da Costa to replace Jesualdo Ferreira with Villas-Boas.

Many doubted it could work but they were soon proved wrong as Villas-Boas led his squad to six successive wins in his first month in charge despite selling key players Raul Meireles and Bruno Alves.

Villas-Boas continued to defy the sceptics and went on to secure the title with five games remaining.

A record-breaking run to the Europa League final, and the Portuguese's commitment to playing free-flowing attacking football, also alerted his potential to many suitors on the continent.

Chelsea have been linked with Villas-Boas, and should his team beat Braga, who are coached by the same Paciencia that Villas-Boas pestered Robson to put in the Porto line-up, he may one day follow in Mourinho's footsteps by moving to Stamford Bridge.

With his youth, success and fast-tracked ascent into management, comparisons between Villas-Boas and Mourinho are inevitable, but the 33-year-old wants to carve out a future of his own.

Unlike Robson, Villas-Boas is determined to have a short career in management, of 10 to 15 years. But if the young manager keeps on winning trophies, it would be daring to bet against the apprentice usurping the achievements of the English master even in such a brief amount of time.
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Real Madrid coach Mourinho is never happier than when he is central to the drama of a big match -- even if he has to create a storm to steal the spotlight -- and he drills his players to conform to his cautious game-plans.

In contrast, the rather more humble Villas-Boas deflects the credit for his achievements onto his players.

"People focus a lot on the work of the manager and I don't see it that way," Villas-Boas said on Tuesday.

"I don't see myself as a one-man show. Football isn't won by one person but by collective competence. It is the quality of the players and the structure of the club.

"I just want to make my players give their most. I give them room to express themselves because that's how they develop.

"I promote their talent and let them make their own decisions. There are no dictators.

"We dont see the game as a tactical game. If you are a dictator of choices, players won't be able to explore their possibilities to the full. You have to be able to free them."
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“Porto has the highest release clauses in the market so it is not possible for talent to run away from us,†he explained of the players before turning to himself. “My release clause is very, very high. It is something that reflects the power of the Porto brand and I’m very proud of that. This is my club, my hometown and I’m proud to be here.â€
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€100 million (£88million) for Hulk
€30 million (£26.5million) for Falcao
€15 million for Andre Villas-Boas

"Such arrangements are not unusual as Chelsea found out when securing the services of Mourinho in 2004. But then Chelsea had to pay Porto ‘just’ €2.5 million for Mourinho and five coaches. "
 
Last night sky were saying Inter wanted him but were put off by the buy-out clause in his contract, not that Abramovich would be put off by that.

Oh well, we've got Kenny onwards and upwards........
 
well fuck, chelsea a good bet for the title i reckon with him at the helm, ah well, better them than the scum
 
Re: Re: Villas Boas

Portuguese league is completely different. Europa league is completely different

Plus he doesn't have falcao and hulk
He'll be shit
 
He's younger than half the squad.

If he doesn't get his dinner money nicked, he'll be going home every day with a dead leg.
 
Ah bollocks he's class I was hoping he'd move to Valencia or somewhere like that so he'd be available a few years down the tracks.
 
well , when we installed Kenny full time we knew we were 'taking a risk' in passing on a young up and coming manager like him , the dortmund lad or even Deschamps . Ok we don't know who we would of got but the consensus was FSG wanted one of them . To me that was always the only minor dilemma when installing Kenny, but weighing everything up , it could only be Kenny . If one of them came in at the expense of Kenny and didn't win the first 10 games in a row then lots of fans would have turned on FSG .

But as has been mentioned , just because he's been hailed as the new messiah and has looked the business at Porto , doesn't mean he'll be a success at Chelsea or even us . He'll now have to deal with massive egos , that simpleton Roman interfering and some proper competition . It's a whole different ball game . To be honest , and i am not saying he won't be amazing , but it is a big gamble for them and him. Even Mourinho had a second season and champions league football under him , Rafa too had lots of experience in a top league. Even when he was mentioned for us I always thought i would prefer him to come after a few more seasons of experience at porto or somewhere else .

Anyway will be interesting if they he takes over .
 
My Porto supporting mate reckons it's madness and that any fool could have won the league with their side last year. There's the UEFA too, but they didn't really play anyone.
 
[quote author=Krump link=topic=45135.msg1352304#msg1352304 date=1308578734]
My Porto supporting mate reckons it's madness and that any fool could have won the league with their side last year. There's the UEFA too, but they didn't really play anyone.
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I think there is an element of that involved. Porto have a good set up and recruit really well from South America, clubs like that make it easier for a manager to succeed.
 
He's flavour of the month, I hope he crashes and fucking burns

*tries to think of witty crashing and burning analogy featuring McLaren F1 and Steve McLaren but fails*
 
It's quite a gamble by them, when they have another great option in Hidink.

Rafa had a better record than Boas 7 years ago and couldn't win the league.
Wenger won the league undefeated years ago (muuuuch more impressive than Boas' accomplishment at Porto), but hasn't won a trophy in 6 years.

Boas looks like a fantastic coach with a good personality but he really is a gamble for Chelsea.
 
I hope he does quite well, initially.

At least until we're ready to win the league.
 
[quote author=localny link=topic=45135.msg1352364#msg1352364 date=1308590623]
he won't be the next Jose, he'll be the next Roffa
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I'd say Roman would be quiet happy with that.
 
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