Because, and many Chelsea fans won't admit this, the squads collective egos engulfed his own. AVB has a collosal ego, which you'll find out sooner or later, and it clashed with many of our teams senior players.
If you embrace him in a manner which we didn't, you'll get a Villas-Boas we only saw momentary glimpses of. The only thing i'd watch for is he seems unsure of himself under pressure - something which he hadn't experienced until becoming our manager. If he's learnt from that, you've got yourself a potential prodigy there.
I HIGHLY doubt he'll play the high line with you lot. He mainly deployed it with us to combat our chronic lack of creativity and pace.
"I HIGHLY doubt he'll play the high line with you lot. He mainly deployed it with us to combat our chronic lack of creativity and pace."
Would like to see him give it a go.
A few serious training sessions will tell him whether the current possible Spurs back four configs can play it.
comment by The Psychologist (U6522)
If you embrace him in a manner which we didn't, you'll get a Villas-Boas we only saw momentary glimpses of. The only thing i'd watch for is he seems unsure of himself under pressure - something which he hadn't experienced until becoming our manager. If he's learnt from that, you've got yourself a potential prodigy there.
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I struggle with this, a potential prodigy who was so set in his ways that he already made his mind up how Chelsea were going to play when he arrived based on how he enjoyed success in Portugal. He didn’t take in to consideration a different league, he didn’t take in to consideration he didn’t have the players suited to it and he didn’t take in to consideration that he had the ability to revert his changes as he took this as a sign of weakness, not arrogance. His arrogance is superficial and only conceals a weak bloody minded man who couldn’t swallow his pride and accept he made several errors of judgment. He also has far too many excuses for me.
I do think he has a chance of success at Tottenham mainly because he doesn’t have the immediate pressure of qualifying for the CL but I just don’t ‘buy in to’ his ‘project’ and neither did the players at Chelsea. This is not to say the players didn’t try, this is an absurd accusation I’ve heard some fans aim at the Chelsea squad, to the point they lost on purpose to get ride of the manager. If that really were true AVB must be some kind of monster, which I doubt.
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posted on 12/7/12
Because, and many Chelsea fans won't admit this, the squads collective egos engulfed his own. AVB has a collosal ego, which you'll find out sooner or later, and it clashed with many of our teams senior players.
If you embrace him in a manner which we didn't, you'll get a Villas-Boas we only saw momentary glimpses of. The only thing i'd watch for is he seems unsure of himself under pressure - something which he hadn't experienced until becoming our manager. If he's learnt from that, you've got yourself a potential prodigy there.
posted on 12/7/12
I HIGHLY doubt he'll play the high line with you lot. He mainly deployed it with us to combat our chronic lack of creativity and pace.
posted on 12/7/12
"I HIGHLY doubt he'll play the high line with you lot. He mainly deployed it with us to combat our chronic lack of creativity and pace."
Would like to see him give it a go.
A few serious training sessions will tell him whether the current possible Spurs back four configs can play it.
posted on 12/7/12
comment by The Psychologist (U6522)
If you embrace him in a manner which we didn't, you'll get a Villas-Boas we only saw momentary glimpses of. The only thing i'd watch for is he seems unsure of himself under pressure - something which he hadn't experienced until becoming our manager. If he's learnt from that, you've got yourself a potential prodigy there.
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I struggle with this, a potential prodigy who was so set in his ways that he already made his mind up how Chelsea were going to play when he arrived based on how he enjoyed success in Portugal. He didn’t take in to consideration a different league, he didn’t take in to consideration he didn’t have the players suited to it and he didn’t take in to consideration that he had the ability to revert his changes as he took this as a sign of weakness, not arrogance. His arrogance is superficial and only conceals a weak bloody minded man who couldn’t swallow his pride and accept he made several errors of judgment. He also has far too many excuses for me.
I do think he has a chance of success at Tottenham mainly because he doesn’t have the immediate pressure of qualifying for the CL but I just don’t ‘buy in to’ his ‘project’ and neither did the players at Chelsea. This is not to say the players didn’t try, this is an absurd accusation I’ve heard some fans aim at the Chelsea squad, to the point they lost on purpose to get ride of the manager. If that really were true AVB must be some kind of monster, which I doubt.
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