Andre Villas-Boas discussed the eight months he spent as Chelsea coach in the 2011/12 season and revealed the problems he faced with transfers. The Portuguese coach revealed that the guidance does not correspond to the reinforcements that were planned.
“Chelsea has something that happens to a lot of people who have been here. Sometimes they get lucky and win a cup or leave their mark. I wasn’t very lucky. We thought there weren’t many changes needed in the beginning and that was a technical mistake,” he explained. for telegraph.
Villas Boa then recalled the problems he had in terms of signings: “We missed Luka Modric at the start of the season. If he didn’t come, I wanted Joao Moutinho and I had that promise from Roman Abramovich. He came to the Premier League after many years, but I tried to convince him to go. To Chelsea and Tottenham. Everyone has seen her quality. I can’t blame this contract failure. I thought Modric was closed and ended up at Real Madrid. Moutinho signed for FC Porto. Alvaro Pereira’s deal with Porto was also dropped. Roman was angry. Modric didn’t come. Moutinho did not come and Radamel Falcao was scheduled to come, but Didier Drogba did not decide whether he wanted to leave or not in January. I was going to Shanghai, then I didn’t go anymore, then director Marina Granovskaya wanted Carlos Tevez and then she didn’t. “
However, the Portuguese coach emphasized: “I have no problem admitting my mistakes. People tell me: “It was stupid to go to the Chelsea coach because he was so prickly. Then he took the release clause of 17 million euros.”
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