“Roman felt pissed off for not signing these 3 best players for Chelsea”– Former Chelsea coach finally reveals Roman missing targets
Former Chelsea manager says Roman Abramovich was furious not to have signed this player for Chelsea.
Andre Villas-Boas, a former manager of Chelsea, has remarked on his tenure in that position.
During the 2011-12 season, AVB led Chelsea for a relatively limited period of time. After only a few months on the job, he was fired, and the next season, his assistant Roberto Di Matteo won the Champions League.
As several of the club’s transfer plans before to the start of that season fell through, AVB has commented about certain things that went wrong during his tenure.
Roman Abramovich, the then-owner of Chelsea, was reportedly furious that the team failed to capture Luka Modric, according to AVB.
“Of course, we missed the [Luka] Modric deal at the beginning of the season,” Villas-Boas told The Telegraph.
“If the Modric deal was not to be done there was the [Joao] Moutinho deal to be done. That was the promise of Roman at that time.
“Moutinho joined the Premier League years and years after I tried – proposing to both Chelsea and Tottenham – and everybody has seen the player that he is.
“So that denial of him was a failure that you can’t [blame on] a coach. I thought that we had the Modric deal done and he ended up in Real Madrid the season after. Then the Moutinho deal was to be done with Porto but the problem was the deal [for Chelsea] for the left-back of Porto, Alvaro Pereira, fell through.
“Roman felt p****d off. So, no Modric, no Moutinho, [Radamel] Falcao is another one that was about to come in but then you had [Didier] Drogba who couldn’t decide whether he wanted to leave or not in January.
“He was about to go to Shanghai, then he isn’t any more and then Marina [Granovskaia] she wanted Carlos Tevez and suddenly she doesn’t want Tevez any more.
“So, you know, managements and mismanagements that are typical within that organisation.
“But Marina evolved to one of the greatest CEOs at that time [at Chelsea]. I am nothing compared to what she has achieved. There are a lot of things about that season that deserve one of those shocking autobiographies in England that reaches number one in WH Smith!”