The project that never was

by Abramovich Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:25 pm

Villas-Boas was not only determined to sever his ties with Frank Lampard and Michael Essien, as well as Didier Drogba, Paulo Ferreira, Salomon Kalou and Florent Malouda, but was not convinced by Cech's performances and had talked to Roman Abramovich about selling the man who once had legitimate claims to be recognised as the best goalkeeper in the world. Rui Patrício, the Sporting Lisbon goalkeeper, was one possible replacement and Villas-Boas also wanted to bring back Thibaut Courtois, Chelsea's 19-year-old Belgian, from a loan spell at Atlético Madrid in which the teenager has excelled.

Cavani, the Napoli forward, had been identified to replace Drogba on the back of the Uruguayan's brilliant performances in Serie A and the Champions League, while Villas-Boas had also asked Abramovich for the money to sign Hulk, the Brazilian striker who had helped him win the Portuguese title with Porto. The initial advances had already been made for both players, with Abramovich particularly involved in the case of Cavani, and it may still be that one or both of them is targeted regardless of who replaces Villas-Boas on a permanent basis.

http://www.weaintgotnohistory.com/2012/3/29/2911181/andre-villas-boas-summer-project-chelsea-fc

Rest of it there.

by Abramovich Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:26 pm

Wish we kept Carlo for another year then hired AVB, to get rid of the shitbuckets.

Cech and Frank would have stayed for me, hell even Ferreira. Rest would have been really nice to get rid of and especially the dialogue with Cavani and Hulk how epic would our team team.

The attacking options of Mata, Danny, Torres, Cavani & Hulk.

by Albiceleste Fri Mar 30, 2012 10:21 pm

Seems like he had a pretty good vision of what he wanted the future of the club to look like going but was hired a bit too early and had to deal with some deadwood. It didn't help that he couldn't properly man manage the squad so the team pretty much imploded like I knew it would once those stories of AVB chewing out all those players and alienating Alex and Anelka emerged, then eventually having them submit transfer requests.

Anyway, now you guys can buy Hazard or Lavezzi and Giroud Razz

by fatman123 Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:35 am

i was never in favour of sacking carlo and nothing so far has changed my mind, if we still had carlo i doubt we'd be winning the elague but im pretty sure we'd be top 4

AVB knew what he wanted and knew how to get it but his poor handling of lamps, ess, anelka, alex etc ruined it for him, if we was a better man manger things couldve been alot different, i mena not inviting anelka to the chelsea christmas party :faceapalm:

really tbh not playing anelka in the first place was :facepalm: