15 Most Shockingly Overpaid Football Managers

11. Andre Villas-Boas - Chelsea

Arsenal's Manager Arsene Wenger
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Rating: £15m

AVB cost Chelsea almost £30m to sign, including compensation paid to Porto, and then when it was swiftly realised that he wasn't good enough, he cost £12m in a golden goodbye. He was arguably the most costly mistake of Roman Abramovich's reign; though Spurs still gave him £4m to disappoint them a year later.

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