Andre Villas-Boas is confident he will not be sacked even if Chelsea fail to recover from their current run of poor results.
Chelsea boss insists his job is safe
Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas is confident that he will not be sacked even if his team fail to recover from their current run of poor results.
Speculation over the future of the Portuguese coach at Stamford Bridge has increased following the Blues' exit from the Carling Cup on Tuesday after a 2-0 home loss to Liverpool in the quarter-finals.
The London side are also 10 points off the pace in the Premier League and will not progress to the UEFA Champions League last 16 if they do not defeat or keep a clean sheet against Valencia in their final Group E game next week.
However, Villas-Boas, who was drafted in as manager in the summer on a three-year contract, is adamant that he is not concerned about his future and that club owner Roman Abramovich has full faith in him.
When asked why he will not be fired, the 34-year-old said: "Because I was brought in for a three-year project and we believe in it."
Chelsea are in the midst of a disappointing run of results as they have won just two of their last nine matches, losing five.
No crisis
However, Villas-Boas insists that his attacking philosophy is not the cause of the team's current poor form.
"The philosophy is not a cancer - we are not speaking about something that is wrong," he said. "It's at crisis point for everyone who speculates with what is happening and with events that are not happening at this football club.
"But we just have to pull ourselves together.
"I cannot repeat myself one time and then another time about the situation, we can only grab ourselves to our hard work and continue to believe that we are going to invert the situation.
Transfers
"We have to decide if we want to strengthen the squad or not," added the former Porto boss on Chelsea's potential activity during the January transfer window.
"We'll have to see if we are approached by any club regarding our players, which can happen as well, and then make the wisest of decisions."
