Andre Villas-Boas Sacked By Chelsea FC

Roberto Di Matteo will take over for the rest of the season, and Abramovich can only hope that he does a better job of motivating his players to play to the best of their abilities than Villas-Boas did.

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Chelsea FC and Roman Abramovich will be thrilled that the upcoming Financial Fair Play regulations just require clubs to make progress towards breaking even in the early years of its existence. Over the past year, Chelsea has spent, and ultimately wasted, more money on managers than many top-flight professional teams spend on their entire squads.

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A statement by Chelsea reads:

Former Chelsea player and current assistant manager Roberto Di Matteo will take over as caretaker manager for the remainder of the season. Di Matteo was the manager of West Bromwich Albion from 2009 to 2011 before he took the job as Chelsea assistant manager.