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| Kenny Backs under "P" AVB; Taken from Football365 | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 21 2011, 09:29 AM (164 Views) | |
| Misty77 | Nov 21 2011, 09:29 AM Post #1 |
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AVB not fearful of Blues axe Andre Villas-Boas is confident Roman Abramovich remains fully behind his Chelsea revolution despite the 2-1 defeat to Liverpool. Villas-Boas is certain that Abramovich would not have paid a world record £13million to prise him from Porto this summer, only to sack him at the first sign of trouble. Sunday's defeat was Chelsea's third four league matches and the first time they had lost back-to-back home games since Abramovich bought the club eight years ago. However, Villas-Boas, who on Friday shrugged off Guus Hiddink being back on the managerial market, said: "It's not a question of the owner having patience. "We have set out to build something new at this club and the club is committed to taking what we're building to the future. "The owner didn't pay 15million euros to get me out of Porto to pay me another fortune to get out. "Our commitment is towards the club and what we are doing in the future. "We have enough talent to compete in all competitions, and that's the perspective we take at the moment." Villas-Boas acknowledged this latest defeat dealt a devastating blow to Chelsea's title hopes. "It's not impossible to turn it around," Villas-Boas said. "It's not the brightest of starts for Chelsea in the Premier League in the last 10 years, but the belief is there. "It doesn't look good being 12 points behind the leaders, a strong leader, but the December fixtures give us hope if we're able to make the most of it." Of far more concern to Chelsea fans at present will be the fact that they will drop out of the top four if Tottenham do not lose to Aston Villa on Monday evening. Abramovich sacked Luiz Felipe Scolari just under three years ago when he began to fear Champions League qualification would not be achieved. Villas-Boas has been charged with getting Chelsea to play more like Barcelona, something that was never going to be achieved overnight. But he refused to plead for more time, saying: "There's no running away from responsibilities, there's no calling this a transitional period, we're not calling for time to work. "Our responsibility is to win trophies. We're in four still, and we still have the possibility to win them." Villas-Boas' plan to play a higher defensive line has repeatedly proven costly this season but he continues to believe in the plan, insisting Chelsea do have the personnel to play it. He also hit back at Gary Neville's criticism of David Luiz, who the former Manchester United defender said played like he was being controlled by a 10-year-old PlayStation gamer. "It's a stupid approach to an opinion," Villas-Boas said. Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish believes it would be wrong to question Villas-Boas' position so early in the season. "No-one in the football profession will be questioning him," he said. "I don't know the lad, but he had a fantastic CV at Porto. "I don't know what the criticism will be, but there's huge respect for him in the football profession." Victory extended Dalglish's remarkable unbeaten record against Chelsea in his two spells as Reds manager. The game appeared to be heading for a draw when former Blues full-back Glen Johnson burst forward to score a sensational solo goal. "I'd have been proud just to have been able to run that far," Dalglish joked. "It was a great finish from Glen. I don't know what he was doing in there, but..." Dalglish added: "We played really well in the first half. They played better in the second half, put us under pressure, but the players hung on in there and the result matched our ambitions." Dalglish outwitted Carlo Ancelotti to win 1-0 at Stamford Bridge last season by playing a three-man defence, and he produced another tactical masterstroke today by handing goalscorer Maxi Rodriguez his first league start of the season. "He likes London, Maxi," Dalglish said of the player who scored a hat-trick at Fulham in May. Liverpool's players wore black armbands following the death of goalkeeper Brad Jones' young son from leukaemia on Friday. Dalglish said: "That's when football becomes irrelevant, really, when a five-year-old kid dies. "We all dread to think what the boy's gone through. He knows everyone at the club is thinking of him and are sympathetic with him." Charlie Adam, who hand in both Liverpool goals, was in no doubt about why his side were victorious. "Hard work was the difference," he told Sky Sports. "We had good shape. We knew it would be difficult as Chelsea are a good team, but we have good players ourselves and it was a good way to bounce back from a difficult result against Swansea two weeks ago. "We have to come to places like this and win. We did well to bounce back from the goal we conceded." Adam went on to dedicate the win to Jones. "I'd like to dedicate that to Brad. He's had a difficult week so that's for you," he added. With all the pre-match talk concentrating on Fernando Torres coming up against his old team, it was Johnson, a former Chelsea player, who had the final say. "I was probably the last name on people's minds," he said. "I like to get forward and I'm grateful to get the goal. I've had some difficult months, but I've been feeling better after injury and have been getting back to fitness." |
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| Deleted User | Nov 21 2011, 10:37 AM Post #2 |
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I ll be worried if Goos takes over, failed in Turky but can do damage with Celski. Better for us if AVB stays. |
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| Soctty | Nov 21 2011, 10:46 AM Post #3 |
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Hiddink is great when under little pressure. The international teams he has manged have never been expected to do much. He took over from Scolari when Chelsea were struggling and turned the season around (without winning anything) in the short term. Remains to be seen whether he would be able to succeed at Chelsea long term, given time to fall out with Roman. Does he really need the hassle when the going gets tough? And another change in philosophy for the Chelsea squad won't be a walk in the park for them. |
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| Misty77 | Nov 21 2011, 04:44 PM Post #4 |
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He (Hiddink) won the FA Cup with them mate. I was surprised he went after that, but fair play to him, he kept his word with the Turkey job. AVB is a totally different kind of Manager to the likes of Maureen. For one, he's more likeable. And I think that if he's allowed to build his own team, and be afforded a little more time by the Russian, then he will be a success. Jamie Redknapp touched on a good point yesterday the AVB has inherited Maureens team from 2005. A lot of 30 something's, who are on the wane. I think it resembles what Benitez had to contend with when he took over at Inter Milan. |
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| parks | Nov 21 2011, 06:39 PM Post #5 |
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given time i think avb could do a very good job. but, a big but . hes taken over an aging side with little pace in midfield or defence. hes been asked to turn chelsea into an entertaining high tempo team and at times this is very much evident. everyone can see what hes trying to do but at this moment he doesnt have the right personnel.therefore i can see massive problems a head . i feel both arsenal and spurs will finish above them leaving them without c/l football . they will have to replace drogba ,anelka,terry,lampard,cole,malouda all in their 30s and if torres doesnt settle then he needs replacing too. so imagine if they are out of the c/l and needing to replace 6 or 7 first team players at what cost ? and with ffp coming into effect and how far back will this take them while rebuilding ? |
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| Soctty | Nov 22 2011, 03:09 PM Post #6 |
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Villas Boas will not get beyond this season. Roman has no patience whatsoever and more money than sense - by about 12 billion. Sad times a-comin for Chelsea fans. |
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| Camelot | Nov 23 2011, 03:11 PM Post #7 |
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Kenny is smart. He wants AVB to stay, because he thinks it will make 3 points easier to get from Chelsea if he does. I agree that AVB is in an impossible position. The vets are declining, the squad players aren't stepping up, and the recent acquisitions don't have the experience yet. But the damage to Chelsea will hurt more if they fire AVB at the end of the season, rather than in mid-season. And I am sure Kenny thinks that too. |
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