The new Chelsea manager - Villas-Boas

[TopGun]

As much as I dislike the Chelsea regime and the way that Abramovitch's cash has distorted football in so many ways, I have to admire the sentiments of their new manager Andre Villas-Boas in the BBC link below.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13879605.stm

 

He says:

 

"I don't see the game as a one-man show, I see the game as the getting together of collective ideas and good players.

 

"The most important thing is to motivate the players to get their ambitions right, to reflect again on what the club has achieved in the last six years and we need to keep this route to success.

 

"We are a technical staff that focuses a lot on unlocking potential and that incentivises a lot of freedom of choice because in the end, when the players are on the pitch, they face different situations that they have to solve without the help of their manager.

 

"This is the kind of stimulus that we want the players to have, responsibility and making decisions, because in the end the game is decided by them on the pitch.

 

"It is a clashing together of two good organisations and in the end it is the relationship between all of our players that can lead us to success, and that is what I want to work on."

 

I guess Chelsea are hoping that a young manager such as V-B can emulate Pep at Barca rather than doing the failed merry-go-round of old school managers previously employed at Chelsea (with the exception of Mourhino, where other issues clearly also exist) and other big clubs.

 

A breath of fresh air for the Premiership IMO - should make it more exciting at least to see if it works out.

 

From a Saints perspective, I suspect Cortese would agree with the Chelsea decision.

 

What are poster's thoughts?

 

(Mods, I put this in the lounge as it is a topic that is of wide interest but move to General Sports if you prefer)

[Saint-scooby]

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