Chelsea Back On Track With AVB?

I might be more than happy to sing the praises of Andre Villas-Boas given the opportunity but the Chelsea manager doesn’t think he’s doing anything special at Chelsea really, in fact, as far as he’s concerned he’s just doing what’s expected.

On our start to the 2011/12 campaign, Villas-Boas insists “I think things have been going okay. We had a good start up to the Old Trafford game where we had a good performance but were unlucky with the result.  Bearing in mind the performance, normally with so many opportunities you come away with a win but it didn’t go for us in the first half in terms of efficiency and the scoreline was difficult to recover at half-time.  We are doing nothing else than what we need to do. We are expected to win every game and that’s the challenge that we have. Some results have gone our way a little bit better and others haven’t.”

We know he’s not a stranger to the Premier League, having already experienced it as Mourinho’s assistant previously, however, now managing Chelsea himself, the new boss thinks things are decidely tougher, saying “The main difference from a couple of years ago is that there are much more teams competing for the Premier League title, and more teams are also competing for the Champions League spots.  I think money has a part to play, a lot of new players have come across for various teams.   Tottenham look different from before, Liverpool the same, Stoke City will be a threat for the European places and Newcastle are back on top form.”

Not that he’s letting that bother him because AVB is confident that a little of tweaking to the set-up he inherited has put us where we need to be and the confident Chelsea boss suggests “We have evolved in the different departments.  The most important thing for us is to make the necessary judgements for the things that we need. We made a couple of changes to a couple of staff to satisfy our needs. Not that the ones before were not competent – just that it’s important for us to have everything at our disposal that we like – so we made changes to the medical department and a couple of structures at the club.  The club has evolved naturally to an even more powerful club, a more powerful brand commercially, and is on the right track.”