Villas-Boas

He has won Europa League with Porto and their League. How many managers in PL can say that ?.

Had the highest win rate of any Spurs manager in premier league history.

Won 17 of 26 games this season before he was sacked.

he must be the highest paid manager over the last 2 years. but he was undermined from within at both jobs in England. Maybe when he gets a club where everyone pulls in the same direction he will do well again.

Well, even if they go out on Wednesday I'm sure he'll be back in the Champions League before Tottenham.

surprised he's taken this job. you go to russia for your pension fund. he's hardly short of  few bob

surely would have been in the frame for top jobs in spain or italy

Always thought him unlucky at Spurs. We weren't playing particularly great football that we had seen under Redknapp but our results were better & he got our highest points total ever, then had half a new squad come in & had to gel them all yet was fired at first sign of trouble. Wish him well.

..his chess like playing style suits Russian football perfectly.

Mar 18, 2014 -- 7:52PM, egner wrote:

..his chess like playing style suits Russian football perfectly.

This. Especially suits CL home games where Russian sides have a big advantage.

But not the highest-ever win % of Spurs in the English top league (ie first division and premier league) history, which was under the late, great Bill Nicholson, manager of that wonderful early 60's side.

My last post in answer to Biscuit 1979's earlier one.

drshn 18 Mar 14 10:39 Joined: 18 Mar 14 | Topic/replies: 1 | Blogger: drshn's blog
He has won Europa League with Porto and their League. How many managers in PL can say that ?.

With usually corruption in porto club... only in  Portugal the justice doesn't work...
Last 30 years is only trophes won with prostitution and so on...

The problem Villas Boas will always have is that he's never played the game and that's the first thing players will hold against him if results aren't going great or they're not getting selected.

Yes, reg fries, but many top managers never played the game or had limited pro experience, eg Wenger, Mourinho, to name but two.

Wenger played to a decent standard tbf and was also older, Mourinho has just been winning all the time so difficult for players to take issue.

AVB obviously lacks man management skills I'm not doubting that, but I don't think his age, playing experience has helped him when things have got tough.

Yes, rf, I think age is a major factor.

another nice contract. he didnt get much of a chance in england did he.

he must really do a good interview.

Russia angers West by recognising Villas-Boas as a football manager
19-03-14

RUSSIA has heightened tensions with the UK by supporting Andre Villas-Boas’s claim to be a football coach.

The news that Zenit Saint Petersburg had employed Villas-Boas as manager has been condemned as a ‘clear act of provocation’ by foreign secretary William Hague.

Hague said: “While a small minority does see Villas-Boas as a coach, appointing him as Zenit boss achieves nothing except to isolate Russia and diminish its place in the world.

“To be willing to sabotage an innocent club just to make this kind of political statement without thinking about the people it will hurt is shocking.”

While Russia claims that Villas-Boas’ time at Chelsea and Tottenham is evidence of a coaching career, the West insists that no obvious football tactics were used during his time at either club.