New Chelsea boss Villas-Boas promises gradual change
Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas is saying that evolution not revolution will mark his tenure at Stamford Bridge.
Ever since his appointment the 33 year old has since been linked with a raft of players, with Tottenham's Luka Modric and West Ham midfielder Scott Parker mooted as potential targets.
"I am still evaluating things at the moment," he said after watching his side defeat Portsmouth 1-0 in a pre-season friendly at Fratton Park.
"It is not that I have to change things radically and I will take it step by step.
"I think it is pretty obvious that we will go into the market at one time or the other but not with radical changes to the team.
"The team will keep itself (together) and most of the players.
"(On Saturday) it was important for us to show the fans the future of Chelsea and you could see that in the number of (young) players we had on the pitch.
"We had a 16-year-old (Nathan Chalobah) on the pitch - that promises a lot.
"He is English, he has a future and these are all things the fans must see."
"Normally people would expect you to arrive at Chelsea and make radical changes and we are taking everything on board and making the right decisions.
"Again our arrival is much more about freeing these players and finding their talent rather than making radical changes."
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Comments (18)
wot about lamps,drogba,malouda,anelka,bosingwa,ferreira and d oda fringe nd old players...dis dude doesn't know he's saying...chelsea's major problem last season was mainly d lack of a creative cm and spark nd lamps showed last season dat he's done...some1 beta tell avb dat clubs wud'nt want to let go of dere stars by august due 2 d short amount of time 2 find a replacement...unless of course u r willing 2 over-pay
Weldone AVB, agree with ur tactics, rather than importing players that will make the team hv excess players----gradual change is preferred. AVB, i will score u 1 point on this, when u find creative mildfielders, another point. If u can match up to d big 6 teams...... then u r fit... will keep tracking
never played 33 one and half years as a manager lol of course he is afraid of upsetting the rent boys egos like captain slimball he has no idea another great move by the man that brought you the 50mill dollar ladyboy flop big ups to the clueless ensuring chelsahit will continue to win nothing,rent boys 4 life!
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