Chelsea Transfer: Andre Villas-Boas Reveals His Chelsea Regrets
Chelsea Transfer: Andre Villas-Boas Reveals His Chelsea Regrets: Andre Villas-Boas, Chelsea’s former manager, revealed regret in a recent interview that Marina Granovskaia had left the club and blamed his departure on Todd Boehly’s arrival. He says his former team has lost one of its best CEOs ever since Boehly completed the £4billion takeover earlier this year.
Earlier this year, Boehly took over the Blues from Roman Abramovich, ending Abramovich’s 19-year tenure as Chelsea owner. With systematic changes to the club hierarchy happening since the American takeover, Chief Executive David Bekham resigned, and Sunderland Head of Football Lee Congerton had also left his position.
With Christoph Freund being tipped to become the new director of football at Stamford Bridge, discussions fell through due to a verbal agreement with Chelsea, according to a report by football.london. With Thomas Tuchel being replaced as manager by Graham Potter and Andre Villas-Boas discussing the role Granovskaia played in Chelsea’s success initially under Roman Abramovich, it seems like her powers are denned through football.
The 47-year-old had been a board member of Chelsea for nine years, has played a vital part in some of the best signings at Stamford Bridge and left her role as CEO shortly after the arrival of new Chelsea ownership. Villas-Boas said: Marina had evolved into one of the greatest CEOs in football during that time period (at Chelsea). I am nothing compared to what she achieved during her time there.
It can be tough going to a new club; you don’t know what to expect, and things never work out the way they hope. That was the case for translator Benfica manager Jorge Jesus when he joined FC Porto in 2012, as well as Chelsea manager Villas-Boas. For example, Jesus did well with FC Porto and won the Portuguese Cup before being sacked. When trying to take over at Chelsea Villas-Boas implemented too many changes before finally quitting after three years at Stamford Bridge.
With Granovskaia gone, the busy first summer transfer window got even busier for Chelsea. They’re believed to have been linked with numerous players during the window and they managed to spend £250million, which was more than any of the other Premier League clubs.