Thursday, 18th December, 2014
Andre Villas-Boas has blamed Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy for breaking a whole host of promises during his time at the club.
After being sacked at Chelsea, Villas-Boas took charge of Tottenham in the summer of 2012 and was charged with making the club a consistent feature in the Champions League.
Villas-Boas insisted that he was ready to accept Levy’s challenge, but feels that the chairman himself didn’t keep his promises.
Influential midfielder Luka Modric left for Real Madrid that summer and the Portuguese said that Levy failed to secure any of his transfer targets, something that seriously affected the playing squad.
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The former Tottenham boss said that he kept losing influential players without adequate replacements which made his job untenable in north London.
"The chairman proposed a challenge to increase Tottenham's competitive level", the Portuguese told TVI.
"But immediately Modric left and we didn't get any of the targets I had identified, such as Joao Moutinho, Willian, Oscar or Leandro Damiao.
"These were promises that were not kept. I had a group of players I had not chosen.
"In two years I lost [Rafael] van der Vaart, Modric, [Gareth] Bale, and all the promises made were unfulfilled.”
Villas-Boas left Spurs in December 2013 with the highest percentage of wins of any manager in the club's Premier League era.
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