PORTO coach Andre Villas-Boas is the red-hot favourite to become new Chelsea boss after several leading bookmakers suspended betting on the man referred to as mini-Mourinho.
Porto's in-demand coach was one of Jose Mourinho's backroom staff at Stamford Bridge and has had considerable success as a manager in his own right, leading his Portuguese club to a league and Europa League double last season.
Suggestions are that Villas-Boas will take over as Chelsea coach with previous 'favourite' for the job Guus Hiddink securing a director of football role.
But if Villas-Boas is to leave Portugal, he will not come cheap. Over the weekend Porto president Pinto da Costa had fought off interest in his man from Italian giants Inter, slapping a £13million price tag on the manager's head.
Da Costa said: "Villas-Boas has a contract and a release clause of 15million euros.
"If someone deposits that in our account and he wants to go, we can do nothing because it is something that is contractually specified.
"If it does not happen then he will not be going anywhere and we will not do anything to make any negotiations easy.
"Nothing happens unless someone pays the money and he wants to go."
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