Andre Villas-Boas

Neymar has a buy out-clause of €45m euro's (who do they think he is? Andy Carroll?), don't know if Chelsea would go that high given the £50m Torres experience. And Neymar wants a move to Real Madrid.

Looks a top young manager, if he succeeds he could be the first of a new wave of younger managers coming through that haven't been professional players all their life. I'd like to see some more like that to disrupt the establish order. Let's see, more like AVB or more Sounesses, Curbishleys, Allardyces etc. There will be massive pressure on him to deliver given the fee involved and he'll take time to adapt to the pressures of the PL but I hope he makes a success of it.

 

Remove all BB Guns from the building!

 

Great appointment, exciting times ahead for them, I look forward to seeing him work and seeing who he'll sign.

 

think this could dent our chance of getting Sturridge, new manager will probably want to see him perform for a bit rather than get rid, loan could be a possibility still of course. more likely to get rid of Drogba, Anelka imo

 

Supposedly bringing a striker or two from Porto, so it may improve our likeliness to get Sturridge, and he probably knows what Strurridge is about from when he was at Chelsea.

Just read Andre's in-depth report on Newcastle before, from years ago. Buomsong, Bramble, Babyaro, Carr in defence. haha.