Andre Villas-Boas Needs Fernando Torres to Recapture His Best Form

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Can the precocious 33 year old, Portuguese coach Andre Villas-Boas succeed at Chelsea?

Of his managerial and coaching talents there is no doubt, yet so much will surely depend on whether Fernando Torres, so far a £50 million fiasco at Stamford Bridge, can at last recover form over the summer. Carlo Ancelotti was impaled on the problem.

Logically, there should have been no place for Torres, sometimes absurdly preferred to the powerful Didier Drogba; but Roman Abromavich plainly wanted his money's worth just as he did with the £31 million, exhausted, Andriy Shevchenko. Jose Mourinho, Villa-Boas's mentor and compatriot would have none of it.

Villa Boas has already been at Chelsea as an aide to Mourinho and knows his way around.

 

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Source: http://www.fanhouse.co.uk/2011/06/30/andre-villas-boas-fernando-torres-chelsea/

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