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Former Chelsea boss, Andre Villas-Boas has revealed that the club’s former owner, Roman Abramovich was left p****d off by the Blues hierarchy’s failure to sign Luka Modric from Tottenham.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Villas-Boas guided Chelsea to just 19 wins in 40 matches and was sacked by Abramovich after just eight months in charge.
The Portuguese believes his stint with the Blues would have been different had Chelsea signed Modric or his alternative target then Porto midfielder, Joao Moutinho.
However, the Blues were unable to sign the Croatia intetnational from Tottenham, and the midfielder joined Real Madrid just a few months after Villas-Boas’ departure.
“Of course, we missed the [Luka] Modric deal at the beginning of the season,” Villas-Boas told The Telegraph.
“If the Modric deal was not to be done, there was the [Joao] Moutinho deal to be done. That was the promise of Roman at that time.
“Moutinho joined the Premier League years and years after I tried – proposing to both Chelsea and Tottenham – and everybody has seen the player that he is.
“So that denial of him was a failure that you can’t [blame on]a coach. I thought that we had the Modric deal done, and he ended up in Real Madrid the season after.
“Then the Moutinho deal was to be done with Porto, but the problem was the deal [for Chelsea]for the left-back of Porto, Alvaro Pereira, fell through.
“Roman felt p****d off. So, no Modric, no Moutinho…”
Meanwhile, Villas-Boas is only one of almost a dozen of managers that have been shown the exit door at Stamford Bridge since Roman Abramovich bought the club in 2003.
Claudio Raneiri was already in charge when Abramovich bought the club and survived just one season before being sacked.
Others are Jose Mourinho, Avram Grant, Luis Felipe Scolari, Guus Hiddink, Carlo Ancelotti, Roberto Di Matteo, Rafa Benitez, Antonio Conte, Maurizio Sarri, Frank Lampard and Thomas Tuchel.
