Chelsea urged to stick with under pressure Villas-Boas

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14Feb

Chelsea urged to stick with under-pressure Villas-Boas

Those familiar noises are coming out of Chelsea again. The ones where various sources all start speculating that ruthless owner Roman Abramovich is poised to cull his latest manager because results aren’t matching up to expectations. The unfortunate man in the ejector seat this time is André Villas-Boas, Europe’s brightest young coach who was brought in to overhaul an ageing Chelsea squad. But as the Life’s A Pitch team explain, it looks very unlikely that the Portuguese will get to finish his assignment.

Despite the sense that Villas-Boas’ dismissal could be only days away, the Daily Telegraph’s Jason Burt still believes Chelsea should stick with their beleaguered young boss. “I think they’ve got to stick with him, personally,” Jason explains. “They’ve made their own bed and they’ve got to lie in it. They decided to go for a young manager on a new project of rebuilding the club. They can’t just ditch him now.”

But the Daily Express’ Ian Ridley thinks the writing is already on the wall. ”Villas-Boas has proved too raw, too wet behind the ears,” he says. “But, they should have known what they were getting and they should have given the guy a bit more time to make the transition. Whether inheriting an ageing squad and so on and given time to buy, he might have turned it around… But Chelsea are just not a patient club.”

The manner of Chelsea’s lacklustre defeat at Everton on Saturday cranked up the pressure on Villas-Boas, explains The People’s Janine Self. “When the fans start saying, ‘You don’t know what you’re doing’, and he’s a young manager and he’s going through his first crisis,” she says, “he must have gone home on Saturday night and wondered what on earth he’s going to do to put it right.”

It is being suggested that appointing the inexperienced Villas-Boas will be Abramovich’s biggest mistake. “I think their biggest mistake was sacking Mourinho,” argues Ian. “[He was] the one manager who changed the culture of the club, delivered the trophies. But he was a difficult man to handle, too turbulent and Abramovich tired of him.”

But Jason disagrees. “I don’t think the biggest mistake was getting rid of Mourinho, I think the biggest mistake was getting rid of [Carlo] Ancelotti, because he was a perfect manager for Chelsea,” he points out. “He was absolutely perfect temperamentally, and in terms of his own abilities, and he could have made the changes that they wanted to make. But they just didn’t give him the opportunity.”

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Moni_quemw

Other coaches like one for Arsenal, ManU and other clubs have also gone down but have remained coaches and now they excel. Why can’t Chelsea be patient? All clubs compete and the fault is not with the coach but with players sometimes. Has Chelsea bought new players of late? Only Cahill? What has changed within the club since Ancellot left? Give us a break.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FPOI6XTDHG2SIRILD33M47S3UM Harold

Its absolute madness for anyone to think of another change of guard at Chelsea in less than nine months on what someone refered to as Chelsea’s ‘ejector seat’. Not even an angel can turn this present tiredlegs chelsea squard around. Abramovich, cannot say that the massive financial empire he is presinding over today was built in a year. AVB should be given time irrespective of the current season’s outcome. ManU, Arsenal, Liverpool etc they have all at one time or the other falling from the pinnacle. Our elders say, ‘it does not matter how many times you fall. What matters is your ability to get up, dust up and continue the journey. Abramovich should hacken to the voices of reason and give AVB time and space to perform.
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4 sure he has nothing to help Chelsea apart from his poor tactics.. let him go n bring in Hiddink to the end of the season,hence talk to Jose Mourinho to return..
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I just belive he should sign more players avb because the players has now is just not doing it for him over the summer that just past he should of really put more effort in trying to sign javier pastore chelsea were in the pole postion and to see psg come out of nowhere and hijack the move really hurt chelsea and spend most of the summer going after modric and geting nowhere chelsea didnt kno what to do if they would of sign pastor a playmaker that could open up that defenseon a team with mata chelsea would be a way better team from as what you see
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