Chelsea sacks coach Di Matteo, months after Champions League win
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View ArticleSoccer: Ruthless Chelsea fire Di Matteo
Roberto Di Matteo's successful but short-lived reign as Chelsea manager came to a sudden end overnight when he was fired only six months after guiding the club to an unlikely Champions League title....
View ArticleChelsea set to announce Roberto Di Matteo's successor
Chelsea are hoping to appoint Roberto Di Matteo's successor on Wednesday. Di Matteo was sacked following the 3-0 Champions League defeat by Juventus. Owner Roman Abramovich is known to be a long-term...
View ArticleWhy Roberto Di Matteo could never win over Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich,...
There are two things those who know Roman Abramovich always say about him and Chelsea: Roman is always right (even when he is wrong) – and whatever happens will come down to the whim of one man. And...
View ArticleRoberto Di Matteo finds trophies are not enough at Chelsea
Roman Abramovich was the man who craved the Champions League above all else. Now the man who delivered it to him has brutally discovered Chelsea's Russian owner always wants more. As Roberto Di Matteo...
View ArticleSacked Chelsea managers: Roman Abramovich's other victims
• Roberto Di Matteo is not first to feel wrath of Abramovich • Ranieri, Mourinho, Scolari and Villas-Boas among others Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has made the decision to part company with Roberto...
View Article£37 million in compensation to seven managers: Chelsea managers under owner...
Roman Abramovich has paid out an astonishing £37 million in compensation to sacked managers - even before he gets round to negotating Roberto Di Matteo. The Chelsea owner has employed eight managers...
View Article£37 million in compensation to nine managers: Chelsea managers under owner...
Roman Abramovich has paid out an astonishing £37 million in compensation to sacked managers - even before he gets round to negotating Roberto Di Matteo. The Chelsea owner has employed eight managers...
View ArticleAVB: sackings at Chelsea like everyday event
Andre Villas-Boas painted a vivid picture of the brutal reality of life as Chelsea manager by claiming that sackings represent "just another day at the office" at Stamford Bridge. The Blues are...
View ArticleBlues bosses
Roberto Di Matteo has become the latest Chelsea manager to be removed from his post by Russian owner Roman Abramovich, just six months after guiding them to glory in the UEFA Champions League. Here,...
View ArticleAll change again at Stamford Bridge
Soccer:��Chelsea are now looking for their ninth manager in just eight and a half seasons after promptly firing Roberto Di Matteo in the wake of last night���s 3-0 defeat at Juventus. Pep Guardiola...
View ArticleSacking Di Matteo 'just another day' at Chelsea - Andre Villas-Boas
Andre Villas-Boas has labelled Chelsea's sacking of Roberto Di Matteo as "just another day at the office". Villas-Boas lasted nine months as manager at Stamford Bridge before being sacked in March and...
View ArticleAVB: Sacking par for the course
Di Matteo was sacked as Chelsea boss in the early hours of Wednesday morning after defeat at Juventus on Tuesday night saw the European champions slip closer to an early exit from the Champions...
View ArticleSoccer: Chelsea fire Di Matteo, hire Benitez
Chelsea have announced that Rafael Benitez had been appointed their interim first-team manager until the end of the season after the European champions sacked Roberto di Matteo. Di Matteo was fired...
View ArticleVillas-Boas: Sacking par for the course (PFA - Professional Footballers'...
Andre Villas-Boas thinks managerial changes are so frequent at Chelsea that he described Roberto Di Matteo's sacking as just another day at the office for the crisis club. Di Matteo was sacked as...
View ArticleVillas-Boas blasts Chelsea over Di Matteo departure (PFA - Professional...
Published 2012/11/22 10:38 by Pete South. Andre Villas-Boas, one of the nine managers to have been fired by Roman Abramovich during the Russian's nine years in charge of Chelsea, has hit out at the...
View Article'Quitter' Abramovich ruined our Chelsea project, says AVB
Villas-Boas knows he will have to work hard to dispel the idea he was a failure at Chelsea. He lasted less than nine months there, the victim of poor results and player power, and Chelsea went on to...
View ArticleAncelotti: Blame players, not AVB December 1, 2011
Former Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti has warned his former club that is not a "miracle worker" and needs to be given time to overhaul an ageing team at Stamford Bridge. GettyImagesCarlo Ancelotti:...
View ArticleDi Matteo appointed permanent Chelsea coach
Chelsea caretaker manager Roberto Di Matteo has been appointed permanent coach, signing a two-year contract after taking the side to its first Champions League title, the club confirmed. He had been...
View ArticleVillas-Boas sacking 'sad' - Ferguson
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson was among those to sympathise with sacked Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas, despite admitting the news did not surprise him. Villas-Boas was shown the door at...
View ArticleWilkins warns Di Matteo he is not safe at Chelsea even if he wins a ...
Former Chelsea assistant Ray Wilkins has warned Roberto Di Matteo that his job may not be safe beyond the summer – even if he wins the UEFA Champions League and FA Cup. Di Matteo has been a huge...
View ArticleAVB has confidence in Spurs project
Soccer:�Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas is confident his new project can succeed at White Hart Lane with the full backing of chairman Daniel Levy. The 34-year-old Portuguese coach arrived at...
View ArticleYou were wrong to join Chelsea! Under-fire AVB feels the heat as Roman...
As he battles to save his job, Andre Villas-Boas has been told he made a huge mistake joining Chelsea. Blues owner Roman Abramovich is considering ditching the young boss just eight months after...
View ArticleAbramovich quit on me - AVB
The 34-year-old was sacked just eight months into his former post in March, when the Blues were outside the top four of the Barclays Premier League. However, under the guidance of then interim coach...
View ArticleAndre Villas-Boas: 'Quitter' Abramovich ruined Chelsea project
Andre Villas-Boas yesterday claimed Roman Abramovich "quit" on him when he was sacked by Chelsea in March. The 34-year-old is now back in the game as Tottenham Hotspur's new manager, the replacement...
View ArticleFERGIE: VILLAS-BOAS SACKING 'SAD'
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson was among those to sympathise with sacked Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas, despite admitting the news did not surprise him. Villas-Boas was shown the door at...
View ArticleAVB claims share of Chelsea credit
Andre Villas-Boas believes he is entitled to some degree of satisfaction for helping set Chelsea on the way to Champions League glory, but is now fully focused on transforming Tottenham into genuine...
View ArticleAVB: Abramovich ruined my project
Villas-Boas knows he will have to work hard to dispel the idea he was a failure at Chelsea. He lasted nine months there, the victim of poor results and player power, and Chelsea went on to win the...
View ArticleAVB - Abramovich quit on me
Andre Villas-Boas says Roman Abramovich broke promises when he decided to call a premature end to their Chelsea project last season. Villas-Boas was sacked as Blues manager in early March, just eight...
View ArticleAVB boasts "trust" of Abramovich
Andre Villas-Boas has insisted it did not matter if some of Chelsea's players had turned against him because he still had the backing of the only man who matters. Blues boss Villas-Boas admitted...
View ArticleAVB: The End! Chelsea sack another boss... BUT Abramovich blames the players
At 1.15pm on Sunday, Roman Abramovich called together the dressing-room dissenters and blamed them directly for the dismissal of Andre Villas-Boas. Chelsea’s owner had reluctantly fired his Portuguese...
View ArticleSteven Beacom: Roman Abramovich has made Chelsea successful... and hated
Roberto Di Matteo’s reign as manager of Chelsea was never going to last. They never do at Stamford Bridge. It’s just the way it is under Roman Abramovich. Since he bought the club in 2003 he has...
View ArticleYou must know Blues to comment - AVB
Totenham boss Andre Villas-Boas insists Harry Redknapp is in no place to judge whether only a "dope" can manage Chelsea. Shortly after taking over at QPR in November, Redknapp told a press conference...
View ArticleAVB: Chelsea a unique challenge
Saturday sees Villas-Boas go head to head with QPR boss Redknapp for the first time since the 35-year-old replaced the former Southampton manager in the White Hart Lane hot seat last summer. Redknapp,...
View ArticleAVB responds to Redknapp jibe
Saturday sees Villas-Boas go head to head with QPR boss Redknapp for the first time since the 35-year-old replaced the former Southampton manager in the White Hart Lane hot seat last summer. Redknapp,...
View ArticleChelsea claim it's 'business as usual' after Benitez hits out at fans
Rafael Benitez is expected to be given at least one more match in charge at Chelsea despite criticising Blues supporters and the club's decision to give him the title of interim manager. Benitez hit...
View ArticleAncelotti warns ’Chelsea-bound` Mourinho to beware of `sack`
London: Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho has been warned by Paris Saint Germain boss Carlo Ancelotti that he may also be sacked by Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich if he returns to the club. Mourinho has...
View ArticleAncelotti warns 'Chelsea-bound' Mourinho to beware of 'sack'
Tweet London, May 18 (ANI): Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho has been warned by Paris Saint Germain boss Carlo Ancelotti that he may also be sacked by Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich if he returns to the...
View ArticleAVB keen to banish away-day blues
Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas will be out to rewrite the history books once again when he returns to Chelsea on Wednesday night. Villas-Boas heads back to Stamford Bridge for the first time...
View ArticleAndre Villas-Boas unsurprised by sacking of Roberto Di Matteo
Former Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas says he is not surprised Roberto Di Matteo was sacked by the club. Villas-Boas was dismissed by the Blues in March, and was replaced by Di Matteo who...
View ArticleSolving the Torres question key to Benitez prospects
LONDON (Reuters) - If Rafa Benitez can get Fernando Torres playing for Chelsea as he did under his fellow Spaniard for Liverpool then Roman Abramovich's latest throw of the managerial dice will look...
View ArticleRoman Abramovich's 10 years as Chelsea's secretive Russian owner
What is Roman Abramovich's football philosophy? As the secretive Russian billionaire has given just one unrevealing interview during 10 years at Chelsea, that's left for others to describe. The popular...
View ArticleLessons to be learned for AVB June 21, 2012
Tottenham's relationship with Chelsea is conflicted and complicated. A decline in league performances in West London allowed the side from the North of the capital to enter the top four. Yet by winning...
View ArticleFACTBOX: Sacked Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas
LONDON: Factbox on Andre Villas-Boas who was sacked as Tottenham Hotspur manager on Monday: Born Oct. 17, 1977 in Porto, Portugal. Born: Oct. 17, 1977 in Porto, Portugal. EARLY CAREER * Played at...
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