COMMISERATIONS, dear Aldo :'(

[Scylla]

May 23, 2011 0:41:49 GMT Scylla said:

The Russians are coming!

Chelsea are also very interested in Andre Villas-Boas, the Porto coach who has won the league, cup and Europa League in his first season at the club, at the age of 33. Villas-Boas previously worked at Chelsea as a scout during the reign of Jose Mourinho. The Portuguese prodigy recently revealed he has a £13m buy-out clause in his contract, which would be well within the financial means of Abramovich.

Somehow I don't see it happening - I certainly hope not, for Porto's and Villas-Boas' sake ... and Aldo's, of course

scylla

It happened! How are the fans of Porto taking the news? Including their No1 Fan (in our eyes)?

Money talks, doesn't it?

scylla

[tynesider]

It was going to happen sooner than later, Porto played really well in the Europa Final and like you said scylla, money talks and Chelski have bucket loads of it. The thing is will he bring some of Porto's best players with him!

[safercigs]

Liverpool are the team for next season

[Aldo]

I just saw this thread now... Thank you Scylla !
Well... as a Porto fan I was sad to hear about this, but... Who could blame him?
The man is going to win 5x more, and let's face it, we work for a better living... :s
It's not that hard for us, because we're used to it... We don't have the financial status of the biggest teams, and most of our better players end up moving for the millions. We just keep reinventing the squad and the staff and catch our titles !
And tbh, 15M for a manager? Lots of good players are sold for less then that
In the past few years we saw Mourinho going away, and players like: Deco, Anderson, Ricardo Carvalho, Bosingwa, Pepe, Raul Meireles, Diego, Luis Fabiano, Cissokho, Lucho Gonzalez and Lisandro López (to name a few....) and yet others came and did the job! It won't be different this time... Falcao will probably leave too (30M is a "low" value for such a player) and God knows who else...
It may take a year or two, but we'll be back ! THat's what Porto is all about, that's the spirit of the dragon !
If you can't fight them, join them... We don't and we won't have the possibilities to keep our best players like MU, Chelsea, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Inter or AC Milan... yet we manage to be a PITA almost every other year because we create them ... and the same goes with managers! We have an awesome structure !

GO F.C. Porto !!!!

[Scylla]

That's the spirit, our Aldo! Other teams should take that lesson from you too

scylla x

[magicma]

Woo hoo!! Aldo. Well said. With fans like you, they'll never be losers. MM