Andre Villas-Boas /...

AVB's story really is a cautionary tale, there is a lesson to be learned here for everyone.

He followed the call of money right away, after merely one professional year, before actually maturing as a coach and developing a real sense of his job. He thought he could manage the big boys without apparently having the experience, authority and skillset needed.
Now, at *bleep* 36, he's already on his third extremely well paid job, but flopping, failing, and getting fired at each one of them.
It can only go downhill for him now, until he finds some equilibrium of what he can do and where he does it.

The lesson here is, of course, that when you happen to have some kind of short term momentum, do not hesitate to cash in on the hype as fast and forcefully as you can.
Because who knows how the situation would have been had he stayed at Porto and followed his first eye-catching season with a couple of mediocre ones that wouldn't have been so noteworthy, plateauing at his real level.
He might have just remained some B-level manager somewhere and might never have gotten the chance to make millions and millions of € like that again, and he wouldn't have entered the league of 'big name' managers, where simply by virtue of being in there you apparently can bag a few lucrative contracts even while in the process of going down and being found out.
The guy isn't 40, but already set for life. That's how you do it.

Well he did proclaim himself "the shit one" from the very beginning.

AVB in the CL. Rafa in Europa once again.

One of the few things I agree with Gil on.

AVB >>>> Rafa

fraudas flopas still fooling people .

farfan wrote:fraudas flopas still fooling people .

Still, he made the most $ of the hype . At the end of the day, he's the winner.

Just ended Benfica's 52 game unbeaten home record.

Still only 36.

Gil wrote:

Still only 36.

.... and will still be fired by the end of the season

farfan wrote:

Gil wrote:

Still only 36.

.... and will still be fired by the end of the season

AVB and Russia are coming for that 3rd CL spot lol. U mad brah?

tbf AVB's record is ridiculous at Zenit. According to Wikipedia, he's got 17 wins, 1 draw, and 2 losses for an 85% win rate.

fraudas flopas out of the CL as expected

i think he's in a hurry to get dat fat severance package before the rouble plummets any lower .

farfan wrote:fraudas flopas out of the CL as expected

i think he's in a hurry to get dat fat severance package before the rouble plummets any lower .

lol, that's a good point, I wonder if the players and managers in Russian Premier League are paid in rubles or euros or dollars or what?

Goes to Monaco at the end of season. Makes Monaco Ligue 1 champions in 2016.

#believeinAVB

[quote="Art Morte"]

farfan wrote:

lol, that's a good point, I wonder if the players and managers in Russian Premier League are paid in rubles or euros or dollars or what?

Yeah, I think it's in Rubles for RPL player saleries.

[quote="Lord Awesome"]

Art Morte wrote:

farfan wrote:

lol, that's a good point, I wonder if the players and managers in Russian Premier League are paid in rubles or euros or dollars or what?

Yeah, I think it's in Rubles for RPL player saleries.

If it is, I can imagine a fair few of them being quite unhappy right now x)

Might see movement out of Russia if they're being paid in rubles. Wouldn't surprise me if at least the star players had secured their salaries to be paid in euros.

AVB is probably insisting on getting paid in Svarovsky 'crystals'

Hapless_Hans wrote:AVB is probably insisting on getting paid in Svarovsky 'crystals'

Judging by his coaching skills he's being paid in Crystal Meth.

The ultimate scrub keeps on scrubbing

Just noticed he isn't managing anyone atm after Zenit.

Wonder which PL club will he take over next? Stoke?

Man Utd IMO

Looks like he wants to go to the Bundesliga next:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BKi2Vlmhtw1/?taken-by=officialavb

André Villas-Boas' pay-outs as manager(Via A Bola):
Académica - €162k
Porto - €715k
Chelsea - €15m
Spurs - €8m
Zenit - €17m
Shanghai - €30m

He has earnt 71m so far in his career at the age of 39...

crazy even if you remove the china money

Swear he wouldn't get all these jobs if he looked like Harry Redknapp

He made Hulk look better than the 65 rated player he is tbf.

Holy shit. Just realised HULK and Villas-Boas reunion at Shanghai