Villas Boas has the disadvantage of having to deal with big personalities, who may not be too happy with his ideas.
“It is not easy, no. But in our job you can only survive if you do how you feel. After, you can get it through or not. That is what I did. So for me it was not too difficult.
“I was just convinced of what I wanted and I was fortunate to face intelligent players: I had Steve Bould, Tony Adams, Nigel Winterburn, Lee Dixon, Martin Keown – they are all intelligent people. And they thought: ‘Maybe this guy is completely mad but we will try and it can work – you never know.'”
