{"id":444564,"date":"2011-06-20T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/20\/portos-alvaro-pereira-bids-farewell-to-chelsea-target-andre-villas-boas-on-facebook\/"},"modified":"2011-06-20T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T19:00:00","slug":"portos-alvaro-pereira-bids-farewell-to-chelsea-target-andre-villas-boas-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/20\/portos-alvaro-pereira-bids-farewell-to-chelsea-target-andre-villas-boas-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Porto&#8217;s Alvaro Pereira bids farewell to Chelsea target Andre Villas-Boas on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Luis Mira<\/h3>\n<h4>20 Jun 2011 20:00:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"56.1093375898\">\n<div readability=\"15.4\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alvaro Pereira v Cesc Fabregas, Porto v Arsenal (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/89400\/89463_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Alvaro Pereira v Cesc Fabregas, Porto v Arsenal (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"15.2329988852\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/portugal\/292\/porto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Porto<\/a> defender <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/uruguay\/13260\/alvaro-pereira\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alvaro Pereira<\/a> has given a very strong indication that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/portugal\/43211\/andr%C3%A9-villas-boas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andre Villas-Boas<\/a> is on his way to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/96\/chelsea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chelsea<\/a> after bidding farewell to the coach via his official Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese tactician appears poised to join Chelsea after just a one-year stint with Porto and left-back Pereira has spoken of his coach&#8217;s departure as a certainty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Andre Villas-Boas is going to Chelsea. Abramovich has taken our coach from the Estadio do Dragao,&#8221; he said on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to thank the coach for all the work and the trophies conquered with us this season. We have lost our coach but we will remain strong. WE ARE PORTO!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea will reportedly spend \u20ac15 million \u00a313.2m to buy Villas-Boas out of his contract, with Portuguese sources suggesting the 33-year-old has been offered a \u20ac5m-a-year deal \u00a34.4m-a-year, which is five times higher than his current contract at Porto.<br \/><em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Visit link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/06\/20\/2540579\/portos-alvaro-pereira-bids-farewell-to-chelsea-target-andre\" title=\"Porto's Alvaro Pereira bids farewell to Chelsea target Andre Villas-Boas on Facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Porto&#8217;s Alvaro Pereira bids farewell to Chelsea target Andre Villas-Boas on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Luis Mira 20 Jun 2011 20:00:00 Alvaro Pereira v Cesc Fabregas, Porto v Arsenal (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Porto defender Alvaro Pereira has given a very strong indication that Andre Villas-Boas is on his way to Chelsea after bidding farewell to the coach via his official Facebook page. The Portuguese tactician appears poised to join Chelsea after just a one-year stint with Porto and left-back Pereira has spoken of his coach&#8217;s departure as a certainty. &#8220;Andre Villas-Boas is going to Chelsea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Porto&#039;s Alvaro Pereira bids farewell to Chelsea target Andre Villas-Boas on Facebook - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/20\/portos-alvaro-pereira-bids-farewell-to-chelsea-target-andre-villas-boas-on-facebook\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Porto&#039;s Alvaro Pereira bids farewell to Chelsea target Andre Villas-Boas on Facebook - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Luis Mira 20 Jun 2011 20:00:00 Alvaro Pereira v Cesc Fabregas, Porto v Arsenal (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Porto defender Alvaro Pereira has given a very strong indication that Andre Villas-Boas is on his way to Chelsea after bidding farewell to the coach via his official Facebook page. 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