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Whether the owner would grant him that leeway is open to question, with Chelsea now left to count the cost of another failed regime. A fee of 13.3m had been paid to Porto to secure Villas-Boas's services last summer, an amount that took the*** compensation outlay on managers fired or hired to a staggering £64m*** in a little over four years.

From the Guardian

They could have had 2 Andy Carrolls for that

You can also look at it from a different angle, they got CL qualification to show for it, something that Andy Carroll hasn't managed to achieve quite yet.

If you want the Liverpool baiting to stop dicki I advise you to stop bringing up those stupid comparisons, seriously.

There's a good article on the BBC's horrible website, it should only be accessed through google, by Tim Vickery on the growing influence of Messi on the national squad. Here's the link