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Evening all,

Reports that Villas Boas is to be Spurs new manager are heavily doing the rounds now, with varying stories that he is to be offered either a 2 or 3 year deal. He is the bookies favourite and if you go by twitter then he already is the manager.

The Sun as expected have ran their first pro Harry, anti whoever the Spurs manager will be article claiming there will be a player revolt if Villas Boas joins Spurs, because of what Chelsea players have told them. Funnily enough though they didn’t name any of their sources.

Everyone who’s anyone knows Villas Boas failed at Chelsea – or did he? Abramovich paid a reported £13 million to bring a 34 year old to Chelsea, who not only won trophies for Porto but also went an entire season unbeaten. A man heavily respected by Bobby Robson and who still has the special one José Mourinho willing to vouch for him.

Abramovich had a vision for Chelsea. Lampard, Drogba, Anelka and Terry all were assumed to have had their best days behind them, and Abramovich wanted a young manager that is so highly regarded by Chelsea God Mourinho to take them through a period of transition. Torres, Mata and Cahill were bankrolled by the endless supply of money that Abramovich seems to have, and in the long run and in fairness the short run, in Cahill’s and Mata’s cases are more than worthy replacements. They did come at some cost, however when you are talking of replacing players that are regarded as some of the best in the world it does cost. AVB started playing Torres and Mata ahead of Drogba and Lampard, something which obviously would upset the apple cart, but something that you would assume Abramovich wouldn’t have had too much of a problem with seeing as he spared £50 million for Torres. Torres, Mata and Cahill were all purchased with Chelsea’s future in mind, but they aren’t the kind of players that are willing to sit on the bench. With that problem in mind, there would probably be no easy solution to the matter if Chelsea were to keep their future stars happy, and you wouldn’t be an idiot for thinking Abramovich would prefer his new stars that he’d spent his millions on to get the nod over the older generation.

Somewhere along the line Villas Boas managed to lose the dressing room, no doubt inspired by an alienated puppet master John Terry, who was more than likely aggrieved by the treatment of his old friends. Anyway, to cut a long story short Abramovich lost his nerve and decided to cut short his project manager AVB and replace him with Di Matteo. Now credit where credits due, Di Matteo did deliver, but he didn’t have a project to attend to, and he had the benefit of analysing the problems that occurred previously which gave him a chance to resolve them without treading too badly on anyones toes.

In my opinion I believe that AVB still possesses his potential talent and was trying to square a circle. I’m not saying he could have emulated Di Matteo’s success last season as his overall goal wouldn’t have allowed it, but I am saying I believe if Abramovich had stuck with him Chelsea may have been better off in the long run, but I’m sure any ardent Chelsea fan would rather have had their success in Munich and risk the future and you’d probably be inclined to agree with them.

Now as for the press reporting that there will be a revolt at Spurs if he is to be their man, I believe this is completely unfounded. Fleet Street’s elite all love Harry Redknapp and will be looking to portray him in any positive light they can, even if it means making the next Spurs manager’s life hell. Reading between the lines, the majority of the club’s players are at the Euro’s or on holiday, and I don’t suspect they’re worrying themselves endlessly at this stage about who Spurs have inline, and I also suspect they have full confidence in Levy regardless of what admiration they had for Redknapp – after all, we’re talking about a man that has openly admitted he would have left Spurs had the England job been offered to him.

I suspect the revolt story has been cooked up to stir trouble and unrest at White Hart Lane and maybe even sow seeds of doubt into AVB and the players. Remember this is the same press that told us Redknapp was undoubtedly the next England manager, without any consideration of the detriment it was having on Spurs’s previously faultless season.

The final point I’d like to make is that I can only imagine it would be one player who would waste his time telling the Spurs players of AVB’s faults – Frank Lampard. Not because he is in anyway malicious, far from it in fact, but simply because Redknapp is his uncle. Realistically the press have more than likely made the entire story up.

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