{"id":445086,"date":"2011-06-21T16:33:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T16:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/21\/chelsea-to-appoint-villas-boas\/"},"modified":"2011-06-21T16:33:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T16:33:20","slug":"chelsea-to-appoint-villas-boas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/21\/chelsea-to-appoint-villas-boas\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea &#8216;to appoint&#8217; Villas-Boas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"108.922002328\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/53548000\/jpg\/_53548332_villasboas.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" alt=\"Villas-Boas\" \/> Villas-Boas only began his managerial career in October 2009<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Chelsea target Andre Villas-Boas is on the verge of becoming the club&#8217;s new manager, BBC Sport understands.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old resigned as Porto boss on Tuesday having guided the club to a domestic treble last season.<\/p>\n<p>He has been linked with Chelsea in recent days following the sacking of Carlo Ancelotti in May.<\/p>\n<p>Porto insisted on Monday that Villas-Boas could leave if a rival club paid \u00a313.2m to activate a release clause in his contract.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;FC Porto was today notified of the intention of Andre Villas-Boas to resign from his contract with the club by triggering the release clause immediately,&#8221; read a Porto statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The contract will be terminated once the required amount is paid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Lusa news agency had reported earlier on Tuesday that Villas-Boas would pay the \u00a313.2m himself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/13494528.stm\" title=\"Ancelotti sacked as Chelsea boss\">Ancelotti was dismissed by Chelsea<\/a> following a season without any silverware, with the London club finishing runners-up to Manchester United in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Several candidates have been touted as possible replacements for the Italian, among them Turkey boss Guus Hiddink, Villas-Boas and former Fulham, Manchester City and Blackburn boss Mark Hughes.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/13858858.stm#skip_feature_02\">Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Has an English grandmother and boasts a count and a baron among his relatives<\/li>\n<li>Invited to work as a trainee with Porto&#8217;s youth-team coaches in 1994 by Sir Bobby Robson<\/li>\n<li>Would become youngest current manager in Premier League at 33 if he ends up taking over at Chelsea<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Chelsea boss John Hollins believes Villas-Boas could prove to be a shrewd acquisition for the west London club, who are yet to realise owner Roman Abramovich&#8217;s dream of winning the Champions League, and were <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/europe\/9454028.stm\" title=\"Man Utd 2-1 Chelsea (agg 3-1)\">beaten in the semi-finals by Manchester United last season.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He could be fearless,&#8221; Hollins told BBC Sport. &#8220;It will be fresh for the players, they need a boost. I think it could be a breath of fresh air, bringing in a fresh approach to this maybe tired football team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This guy is as young as some of the players are so he will be on the same wavelength with them, but is it going to be a three or four year programme as opposed to having to win something in his first year? That is the one thing we don&#8217;t know yet, but he has won three competitions in Portugal just like that so he could be a whizzkid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a gamble but I think it&#8217;s calculated gamble. I still don&#8217;t know if Mr Hiddink will be coming as an advisor to the young man, if he does that will only strengthen the position.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Under Villas-Boas, Porto won both the Portuguese league and league cup last season, as well as the Europa League.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<div>\n<div readability=\"7\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"holding\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/53556000\/jpg\/_53556832_johnhollins.jpg\" alt=\"Former Chelsea player &#038; manager John Hollins\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please turn on JavaScript.<\/strong> Media requires JavaScript to play.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Hollins backs Villas-Boas<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>They were unbeaten in the league, with 27 wins in 30 matches, becoming only the second Portuguese club to complete a league campaign without losing a game, after Benfica in 1972-73.<\/p>\n<p>A scout for compatriot Jose Mourinho at Porto, Chelsea and Inter Milan, Villas-Boas began his managerial career with Portuguese club Academica in October 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Academica were winless and bottom of the first division at the time but finished the season in 11th place.<\/p>\n<p>They also reached a Portuguese League Cup semi-final before Villas-Boas left to take over at Porto in June 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Villas-Boas, who speaks fluent English, also worked with Sir Bobby Robson during the former England manager&#8217;s spell in charge of Porto.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/13858858.stm\" title=\"Chelsea 'to appoint' Villas-Boas\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chelsea &#8216;to appoint&#8217; Villas-Boas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Villas-Boas only began his managerial career in October 2009 Chelsea target Andre Villas-Boas is on the verge of becoming the club&#8217;s new manager, BBC Sport understands. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":445087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-445086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chelsea &#039;to appoint&#039; Villas-Boas - 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\/21\/chelsea-to-appoint-villas-boas\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Chelsea &#039;to appoint&#039; 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