Villas-Boas’ Guus may be cooked at Bridge of sighs

“THE club is committed to what we are building. They did not pay £15 million to get me out of Porto to pay me another fortune to get me out.”

With those surprising words in the aftermath of Chelsea’s defeat to Liverpool, Andre Villas-Boas revealed that perhaps he does not appreciate how little such sums mean to Roman Abramovich.

When you have as much money as Abramovich, the only scarce resource is time. That is why extraordinarily rich men are so impatient and that is why Villas-Boas cannot rely on Abramovich’s commitment to his project, no matter what assurances he has been given.