Fernando recalls Villas-Boas bringing hunger during quadruple season | OneFootball

Fernando recalls how the arrival of a young André Villas-Boas injected a winning mindset and a hunger to put the previous year right, according to O Jogo.

The former midfielder says the coach’s voice felt fresh and stirring in the dressing room, and its impact spread quickly through the squad.

He has not forgotten how everything fell into place in a campaign crowned by the Supertaça, the league, the Taça de Portugal and the Europa League.

For Fernando, that shift in mood mattered, players felt driven to amend what had gone before and to set new standards.

He portrays Villas-Boas’s influence as refreshing and agitating in the best sense, an emotional charge that ran across the group.

Source: O Jogo