Thursday, 21st April, 2011
Inter are willing to wait until 2012 to appoint Andre Villas Boas as their new coach according to sources in Italy. The Nerazzurri are impressed with the current FC Porto coach and believe he could follow in the footsteps of his mentor, and Inter’s former coach, Jose Mourinho.
However, Villas Boas is expected to stay put at FC Porto next season and is thought to have indicated to friends that he wishes to remain in Portugal to oversee the side’s Champions League campaign. Indeed, the 33-year-old has the opportunity to follow Mourinho’s footsteps by winning this season’s Europa League (FC Porto are into the semi-finals) and then lifting 2011/12’s Champions League.
The earliest Villas Boas is expected to be available therefore is 2012. The Portuguese coach, who has been sounded out discreetly by Liverpool, Juventus and most recently Roma, appears to be the one coach in world football (apart from Mourinho himself) that Inter would be willing to wait for.
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