Porto coach Villas-Boas in Chelsea talks
June 20, 2011
By ESPNsoccernet staff
Chelsea are on the brink of appointing treble-winning FC Porto coach Andre Villas-Boas as their new manager, according to Portuguese news agency Lusa.
Andre Villas-Boas
GettyImagesAndre Villas-Boas: Looking to new horizons?
Villas-Boas, who won the 2010-11 Portuguese League, Portuguese Cup and the UEFA Europa League in his debut season as a manager, has a €15 million release clause in his contract that Chelsea have agreed to pay.
Porto president Pinta da Costa said on Monday the club were powerless to prevent Villas-Boas from leaving should those financial conditions be met.
He said: "If someone deposits €15million into our account and he wants to go, we cannot do anything because it is something that is contractually specified.''
Villas-Boas, 33, became the youngest coach to win a European trophy when his Porto side beat Braga 1-0 in Dublin at the end of last season and was immediately linked with a move to one of Europe's biggest clubs.
On Sunday, Inter Milan ruled out a move for the highly-rated coach. "Villas-Boas had this clause that we certainly were not going to tackle," Inter president Massimo Moratti said.
Chelsea have been searching for a new manager since dispensing with Carlo Ancelotti on May 22 and it was thought that Turkey coach Guus Hiddink, who won the FA Cup as temporary Blues boss in 2009, was first choice to replace the Italian.
However, Villas-Boas, a former assistant to Jose Mourinho at Chelsea, now seems destined to follow in the footsteps of his mentor, with whom he has been favourably compared.
June 20, 2011
By ESPNsoccernet staff
Chelsea are on the brink of appointing treble-winning FC Porto coach Andre Villas-Boas as their new manager, according to Portuguese news agency Lusa.
Andre Villas-Boas
GettyImagesAndre Villas-Boas: Looking to new horizons?
Villas-Boas, who won the 2010-11 Portuguese League, Portuguese Cup and the UEFA Europa League in his debut season as a manager, has a €15 million release clause in his contract that Chelsea have agreed to pay.
Porto president Pinta da Costa said on Monday the club were powerless to prevent Villas-Boas from leaving should those financial conditions be met.
He said: "If someone deposits €15million into our account and he wants to go, we cannot do anything because it is something that is contractually specified.''
Villas-Boas, 33, became the youngest coach to win a European trophy when his Porto side beat Braga 1-0 in Dublin at the end of last season and was immediately linked with a move to one of Europe's biggest clubs.
On Sunday, Inter Milan ruled out a move for the highly-rated coach. "Villas-Boas had this clause that we certainly were not going to tackle," Inter president Massimo Moratti said.
Chelsea have been searching for a new manager since dispensing with Carlo Ancelotti on May 22 and it was thought that Turkey coach Guus Hiddink, who won the FA Cup as temporary Blues boss in 2009, was first choice to replace the Italian.
However, Villas-Boas, a former assistant to Jose Mourinho at Chelsea, now seems destined to follow in the footsteps of his mentor, with whom he has been favourably compared.
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