André Villas Boas (Manager)

[kalasoma]

I bloody well hope it doesn't.

[Markmywords]

I'm glad we're not getting him, he's got an annoying face, he's younger than me and he's been at chelsea - these are all bad things.

[navbasi]

I'm glad we're not getting him, he's got an annoying face, he's younger than me and he's been at chelsea - these are all bad things.

 

And that fucking stupid mac of his does my head in... Silly cunt looks like Frank Spencer crouching on the touchline.

 

I'd still have him rather than Martinez though!

[Kennys_spell]

Harsh, but fair.

 

The very top managers who are in the market for a move will want to move to to a big club where they believe they have the odds in their favour (with money to influence those odds).

 

Liverpool the club would interest any manager in the world

Liverpool the 'task' doesn't look favourable to the very elite.

 

That makes no sense at all - either we can attract any manager in the world or we have a limited pool we can attract. The current situation is irrelevant as each and every manager out there has an Ego the size of Zigackly's and believes they can fix any problem that is thrown at them!

 

It leaves Liverpool with the following pools of managers:

 

1) The formerly successful ones who have a point to prove having fallen down the pecking order (and thus they tend to be older guys)

2) One hit wonder younger guys who've had an impressive record abroad with tier 2 teams (porto, dortmund, roma et al) and who had a budget to play with.

3) 'Made of the right stuff' types working in budget laden clubs (Rogers, Martinez et al)

 

So that'll be every manager that ever lived? or not? Or what? It's not making sense.

 

For all the talk of a younger manager with a long term future, CL is essential to boost the revenue at the club, but seriously, it's just a question... even with 100 million to spend on players, could FSG feel extremely confident of a top 4 finish?

 

Yes of course they could - they were confident of that Last season but then reality came along and bit them on the bum. Again - it's about the perception of the 'Management' and their belief that they can resolve any problem given to them!

 

It must be looking a hell of a gamble to financial investors when there's a 5 clubs into two CL slots scenario.

 

Another silly statement - there are Four places for the Champs league. NONE of those places are guaranteed. That's why bookies offer odds against all the teams in the league to qualify.

 

Of course, next season COULD actually be more like a 7 clubs into 4 slots scenario, since City are still new to it all and could do a Blackburn, United could be weaker still unless they spend, unsure which Arsenal might turn up, Spurs could drop off, Chelsea could drop off....

 

This is the only bit of sense in your post as far as I can see.

[MLB]

I reckon Villas-Boas will go to Roma now. It will be interesting to see how he does there. Maybe he will prove the doubters (myself included) wrong.

[A.V.B.]

He's deffo a twat. A mypost/ danperkins-level twat.

 

If you say I'm a twat then I must be given you're never wrong and you're the biggest twat on here by a mile.

 

TWAT!

[Toddler]

With the confidence of a tabloid reporter with nothing to lose if they are talking sh**e but full of their own self importance if they happen by luck to have hit on something that turns out to be true by pure coincidence.....

 

I can emphatically announce that AVB will take the Baggies job!

 

He fears that a second failure at a Premiership Club will mark the end of his Premiership aspirations after the recent Chelsea dismissal. If he is to return to the Premiership so soon, he needs a safe club where expectations can be managed.

 

He also wants a 'project' and therefore needs a club that wants to develop with a certain style and an effective structure that he can influence from top to bottom. Whilst Liverpool might present that opportunity, the expectations of Champions League football in his first season will be too much. Expectations at the Baggies, on the other hand, are simply of Premiership survival next season and perhaps a cup run. Anything more than that would see him held up as a folk hero in the Black Country. Failure to secure CL football at Liverpool or even a league position reflecting that aspiration by Christmas, could see him getting the sack again and therefore becoming persona non grata in the EPL.

 

If the Baggies can meet his financial demands then they could offer the 'safe project' he desires and the opportunity to re-establish his reputation in England.

 

He has also been in contact with the club, which has gone under the radar with all the focus on Liverpool nationally and more on Villa within the midlands than on the Baggies, suggesting this is more than a speculative theory.

 

You heard it here first!

[Redder Lurtz]

If you say I'm a twat then I must be given you're never wrong and you're the biggest twat on here by a mile.

 

TWAT!

 

Correct on all counts. Especially the bit about you, what with that fucking stupid user name you've got.

[xerxes]

I can emphatically announce that AVB will take the Baggies job!

 

Chris Houghton to Albion.

 

AVB will want Euro football to maintain his Euro profile.

[Russ Atmosphere]

[TheHowieLama]

Bangin the drum to 61.

[Ginny]

I don't get why (manager) is in brackets in the thread title

[Pureblood]

I don't get why (manager) is in brackets in the thread title

When the thread was started only the hipsters knew about him. Nobody else cares about what happens in Portugal.