Andre Villas Boas

There was this story about him and the senior Chelsea players in The Upshot last week, probably says more about his lack of ability to manage entitled senior players than him having an ego:

It’s hard to think of a club more entwined in the murky world of global capitalism than Chelsea. They’re owned by an American hedge fund, bossed by a clueless billionaire, and weasel out of financial pickles by selling hotels to themselves.​
But it could have been so different if freewheeling revolutionary Andre Villas Boas had his way.​
Back in 2011, the new Chelsea boss chose a pre-season flight to Hong Kong to kick off his Marxist revolution, telling his squad “everyone's the same” and that youth and first team players would share the first class seats, with some of the club’s biggest stars sitting in cattle class.​
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But as John Terry squeezed into his economy seat between a wailing toddler and an obese bloke with a bag of Doritos, Andre’s utopia began to crumble.​
Terry recalled this week: “So I'm going, 'No no, we're not going anywhere until these young players go back in economy and the first team players that have built this club to where we are today go back in first’”.​
After an ideological showdown in the aisle, Villas Boas bowed to the old elite and shunted Terry back to first class.​
"Because I promise you” JT explained, “the plane would have gone without myself, Frank and Didier."​
Villas Boas was sacked within a year…​
 
I’d have waved him and any of the others who were with him off the plane and gone without them. 👋
 
Yep. Really poor management bowing down to them. They’d have never kicked another ball for me if they dug their heels in. I’d also let them explain to the press why they’re not involved.
 
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