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Because he did very well at porto and seems to be a good football manager. He came 1st in a 2 horse race with a superior squad. Then did nothing at Chelsea and cost them their CL status (assuming they dont win the final). From Wiki: At the start of the 2009–10 season, Villas-Boas left Mourinho's support team to pursue a career as manager, and he soon found a job in the Primeira Liga with Académica de Coimbra, filling a vacancy created by Rogério Gonçalves' resignation in October 2009. At the time of Villas-Boas' appointment, Académica were at the bottom of the league and still without wins, but their luck started to change as he introduced a new style, leading them to a safe 11th place, ten points clear of the relegation zone. In addition to that, Académica also reached the 2009–10 Portuguese League Cup semi-finals, losing against Porto at the Estádio do Dragão with a late goal from Mariano González. His impact at Académica was immediate, not only because of solid results, but also because of the attractive football displayed by the team, which led to intense media speculation linking him with the vacant jobs at Sporting Clube de Portugal and Porto in the summer of 2010. Porto Villas-Boas was announced as the new Porto manager on 2 June 2010. On 7 August 2010, he won his first trophy when Porto beat Benfica 2–0 in the Portuguese Supercup. He followed this with three more titles: the Portuguese Primeira Liga, the UEFA Europa League and the Portuguese Cup. Porto finished the league season undefeated, with 27 victories and 3 draws. He became the third youngest coach to win the Primeira Liga, and the youngest manager ever to win a European competition, by winning the UEFA Europa League on 18 May 2011 at the age of 33 years and 213 days. On 21 June 2011 Villas-Boas tendered his resignation as manager of Porto. Yeah he's useless...

Add new user - Default Name. Take over Man City, Cancel Friendlies and then make them buy all our crappy, expensive players. Resign Default user and Im good to go with £80m transfer kitty at Aston Villa. Sign: Marco Verratti, Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Sime Vrsaljko, Milan Badelj, Jelle Vossen, Salvatore Bocchetti, Jan Vertonghen, Dusan Tadic and a few more... It's not that hard people! Seriously thou pretty much everything at our club needs a look over. From staff and squad, training, scouting, rules of conduct... EVERYTHING It's a mammoth task for whoever is our next manager and unless he or she (not likelly) gets the right backing from Lerner we will fail again. It will take huge investments to make anything more than cosmetic changes, lets just hope Lerner is up for it

Tears of joy!!

7 wins in 38 games 37 goals in 38 games 38 points in 38 games

Imagine an Ivanovic or Vidic type signing for under 10mil. Would be amazing stuff. Hopefully he can spot the next Luka Modric as well if he was to come on board. The next Luka Modric (or close enough) is Milan Badelj, he even plays for Modric old club Dinamo. Bilic has him in the national team

Said it since MON left: Bilic is my #1 choice. I don't see why he should be unrealistic, and if the 200k per year is accurate (and i don't doubt it) he's even more attractive to us as a club. We need new influenses and a new style of coaching and training. If Bilic came here he'd bring young exciting players like Vrsaljko and Badelj from Dinamo not dross like Leon Best or Hutton...

More dross... A club with functioning scouting could easilly find thousands of players who are as good or better and on significally lower wages. A perfect example on why I wan't a manager from the continent, no way would Bilic or Solbakken go for Leon Best.

Isn't this a bit contradicting?

This is like that movie Inception, it's a nightmare within a nightmare. Where the f**k is my totem!?

Thank god MON decided to sign Heskey instead of that Radamel Falcao guy, he seems useless...

I doubt even MON would have been dumb enough to go for this cretin, this is an absolute nightmare.

Perhaps Randy want's his right hand man to be a rocket polisher :?:

In salary/ability ratio only Heskey offers less value for money. Get out!

I've heard they play football in some of these other places too...

I agree! Many of our players including our promising young players seems to lack some of the basic skills in football. Raw talent but lacking in intelligence, vision, tactical knowledge, intelligent movement and so on. I think an complete overhaul is way overdue

:shock: Our board should be ashamed of themselves because of what West Brom do? You couldn't make it up.......... And what is a top 'proven' manager? If we discount the revolving door of Chelsea managers who nip over to London for a 6 to 12 month highly paid holiday, the 'proven' successful managers of the past 5 years are: Ferguson Redknapp Mancini Di Matteo McLeish Dalglish Of that list the only one we may get a sniff at, although extremely unlikely, is Di Matteo, who was fired by err.....West Brom! Unless we want to retain McLeish, of course :winkold: There is a whole world outside the UK u know... Indeed, i believe that I listed some of them, as the discussion was about 'proven' (in English club football) managers Ah ok, sorry then. It's just that reading those post one could (wrongly) get the impression that you were one of those who still belive the UK is the center of the world and that if something didn't happen in England it didn't happen or isn't worth mentioning. People thinking like this (MON, our scouting, Lerner...) is one of the biggest reasons we're in the mess that we are. Again, sorry if i jumped to conclusions

:shock: Our board should be ashamed of themselves because of what West Brom do? You couldn't make it up.......... And what is a top 'proven' manager? If we discount the revolving door of Chelsea managers who nip over to London for a 6 to 12 month highly paid holiday, the 'proven' successful managers of the past 5 years are: Ferguson Redknapp Mancini Di Matteo McLeish Dalglish Of that list the only one we may get a sniff at, although extremely unlikely, is Di Matteo, who was fired by err.....West Brom! Unless we want to retain McLeish, of course :winkold: There is a whole world outside the UK u know...

That is absolutely brilliant and money well spent!!

Getting drunk and in a fight 5 days before a game, althou disgraceful probably will not affect the players physical performance against Tottenham. But what about all the commotion, negative publicity and stress of being all over the front pages? Surely this has to mentally affect them. They should know better than to behave this way but with Collins (and Hutton?) it's clear he just doesn't get it. He needs to go.

Edit: Double post

Swedish paper AB claim Everton have offered Olof Mellberg (who's a Bosman this summer) a contract. http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/internationell/grekland/article14779158.ab Even at 34 i would not mind having him back, hate to see him at Everton.

At least we are consistent, we are a total disgrace on AND off the pitch

Think it says a lot about the drinking culture in English football when this isn't seen as sensational.

Would be nice to se them show that amount of fighting spirit during the games. Maybe alcohol is the answer? Popeye needs his spinach and Collins needs his alcohol