Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas has revealed that he would consider striker http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Didier-Drogba-c11044 intimidate him.
After the comments of former Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti, Villas-Boas released a statement of his own. The Portuguese manager claimed he did not think the Spaniard would be another striker who would suffer at http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 because of Drogba.
The Italian manager claimed that as long as Drogba remained at Stamford Bridge, no other striker could succeed. Ancelotti urged Villas-Boas to sell Drogba to ensure Torres would return to his goal scoring ways for the London side.
However, Villas-Boas has rejected Ancelotti’s analysis and claimed he did not think the comment was fair to the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/FC-Porto-c39186 boss was certain Torres would be able to overcome Drogba’s influence and manage to make his own mark
at the club.
Villas-Boas said while speaking to reporters:
“It would be unfair for a player of Fernando's personality and dimension to conclude that one is inflicting on the other one's belief.
If that was the case with any player, it would be a mental weakness or a mental block, which is not the case in my opinion.”
In Villas-Boas’ opinion it was not mental weakness or fear of Drogba that kept Torres from succeeding at the Bridge. Rather, it was lack of confidence, something which could be regained once again, that was holding Torres back.
He continued:
“It hurts everybody in the sense of goal statistics but he's doing tremendously for the team.
He's a striker with a hunger for goals who wants to be in the box.
We've seen him in the box, we've seen him arrive and create danger.
As long as he's working well for the team, I don't care how the statistics will finish and how dramatic people think they are.”
According to Villas-Boas, it did not matter too much if Torres was scoring goals as long as the striker was performing well for the Blues. In the clash against Sunderland, Torres performed rather well and managed to impress everyone, including manager Villas-Boas.
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