After only 13 Premier League wins Watford’s manager is being seized on as a quick fix for every failed regime. Everton want him but it is time the middleweight miracle-man put down roots again
Ambitious, astute, broodingly handsome, compared, inevitably, to José Mourinho: Portugal’s latest managerial tyro is, according to a report in these pages, “the most sought‑after young manager in Europe”. Best of all he is also the first in a line, the new breed of short-stay super-coaches vaulting their way from domestic success to the very top of European club football. Yes, however you look at it André Villas-Boas is clearly the future of European football.
It is of course perverse to compare the Premier League’s ongoing, if temporarily stalled state of Marco Silva-related fever to the excitement around Villas-Boas seven years ago. Back then there was a similar cooing over AVB’s “philosophy”, his drive, his alchemical eye for detail. Here he comes: football’s own preppy wonder-geek, a vision of the thrillingly wised-up future.
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