Andre Villas-Boas rules out England return after disasterous spells with Chelsea and Tottenham
The 38-year-old has announced his intention to depart Zenit St Petersburg at the end of the season
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Your support makes all the difference.Former Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur manager André Villas-Boas has ruled out a return to the Premier League, saying his spell in England “didn’t turn out as expected.”
The 38-year-old has announced his intention to depart Zenit St Petersburg at the end of the season but Villas-Boas, who has been linked with Aston Villa and Swansea City, insists he will turn down offers from England after being sacked twice in just two years.
Speaking after the 1-0 defeat to Benfica in the Champions League round-of-16 first leg clash at the Estádio da Luz last night, he told BT Sport: “No I think my time has been done there. It didn't go as well as I expected, apart from the first year at Tottenham, so I will look forward to trying other leagues.”
Pushed on where he believes he may end up, Villas-Boas added: “I don’t know, hopefully something good.”
The Porto-born coach was dismissed after just 10 months in charge at Stamford Bridge despite signing a three-year contract the previous summer. The Blues paid a world-record £13.3m compensation package to release him from his deal with Porto in 2011 but was deemed surplus to requirements as dressing room fractures began to appear.
A move across the capital soon followed where he led Tottenham to fifth in the Premier League, one point adrift of the European qualification places, before a 6-0 defeat to Manchester City and a 5-0 reverse to Liverpool signalled the end of his time at White Hart Lane the following campaign.
Villas-Boas has since lifted two Russian titles with Zenit but things took another turn for the worse when he was banned for six matches for assaulting a match official on the sidelines. His managerial honours include the Portuguese Primeira Liga and a Europa League triumph five years ago.
The St Petersburg outfit currently sit sixth in their domestic league but eased through to the knock-out rounds of the Champions League with five wins in six group stage matches.
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