Former OM coach who never hesitated to tackle PSG in public, André Villas-Boas was almost the coach at the start of the QSI era as he told the Telegraph.
With a victory at the Parc des Princes as coach of OM in September 2020, André Villas-Boas holds what is close to the greatest Olympian title of the last ten years, but the Portuguese coach might nevertheless have frequented the bench. opposite a little earlier in his career. While PSG was looking for a successor to Carlo Ancelotti in the spring of 2013, Villas-Boas was then a fashionable coach and one of QSI’s leads, as had already been filtered.
Today unemployed, the one who then coached Tottenham returned to the Telegraph on the approaches of PSG at this time in his career: “The PSG offer was on the table. Yes, Daniel (Levy, Spurs chairman) wanted to sell me for 15 million pounds (Editor’s note: around 17M€). PSG obviously didn’t want to pay £15m and there were a lot of things wrong with Paris Saint-Germain, especially in their approach. »
If Villas-Boas is not going to epilogue on what did not suit him in the approach of PSG, he on the other hand justified his choice to refuse Paris: “I decided to stay, for my love of Tottenham. I think Tottenham was waiting for me to leave and that was it. It was the springboard for the beginning of a bad relationship for this [deuxième] saison. » The second season will never come to an end since he will be dismissed in December, regarding six months following his refusal to join PSG.
