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Andre Villas-Boas - has quit as Porto boss.
VILLAS-BOAS QUITS AS PORTO BOSS

Chelsea moved a step closer to landing their primary managerial target when Porto confirmed Andre Villas-Boas intended to resign his post at the Portuguese champions.
Villas-Boas, who at just 33 years of age will become the youngest manager in the Barclays Premier League should he complete a switch to west London, told Porto he would meet the 15million euro release clause in his contract himself, paving the way for him to replace Carlo Ancelotti at Stamford Bridge.
Porto made a statement to the Portuguese Securities Market Commission which read: "FC Porto was notified of the intention of Andre Villas-Boas to resign from his contract with the club by triggering the release clause immediately.
"The contract will be terminated once the required amount is paid."
Villas-Boas, who led Porto to the domestic double and Europa League success last season, has worked for Chelsea before as part of Jose Mourinho's backroom staff and speaks good English.
If he does succeed Ancelotti - the Italian was sacked at the end of last season - one of his first moves could be to sign Porto's star striker Falcao, the £25m-rated Colombian having impressed as the Dragons won the Europa League final at Dublin's Aviva Stadium, where the 25-year-old netted the only goal against Braga.
With Chelsea having stepped up their pursuit of the former Academica boss, question marks now surround the future of Guus Hiddink.
The Dutchman, who enjoyed a successful spell as caretaker boss of Chelsea in 2009, was thought to be in line for a return to Stamford Bridge, although reports have suggested he would prefer to remain as a coach and not move upstairs into a sporting director role.
His agent today threw up an alternative by refusing to dismiss a link with Inter Milan, who themselves had been interested in Villas-Boas.
The coaching role at the San Siro is likely to be vacated by Leonardo shortly, with the former AC Milan boss poised to become Paris St Germain's new sporting director.
Inter have been frustrated in their attempts to recruit Sinisa Mihajlovic, Marcelo Bielsa and now Villas-Boas but Cees van Nieuwenhuizen said Hiddink, currently in charge of the Turkish national side, "would evaluate" Inter's offer should the Nerazzurri reach an agreement with his current employers.
"We have never spoken to (Inter president Massimo) Moratti," Van Nieuwenhuizen told the Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper.
"Hiddink has a contract with the Turkish federation and therefore before any talks can begin, Moratti must contact the (Turkish) federation and say he is interested in Guus.
"He is contracted until 2012 so, for the time being, there is no possibility that he can coach Inter.
"If Inter reached an agreement with Turkey? Well at that point Hiddink would certainly evaluate the Nerazzurri offer but he is a professional and he has never broken a contract in his whole career."
Andre Villas-Boas Factfile
1977: Born in Porto on October 17.
1993: Invited to work as a trainee with FC Porto's youth-team coaches by manager Sir Bobby Robson.
1994: Achieves UEFA C coaching licence in Scotland.
2000: Takes charge of the British Virgin Islands for two international matches. Both end in defeat.
2002: Becomes part of Jose Mourinho's backroom staff at Porto.
2004: Follows Mourinho to Chelsea.
2008: Moves with Mourinho to Inter Milan.
2009: Appointed manager of Academica in October, with club bottom of the table and without a win. Villas-Boas guides them to an 11th-place finish and a Portuguese League Cup semi-final.
2010: June 2 - Appointed manager of boyhood club Porto.
August 7 - Wins Portuguese Supercup with 2-0 victory over Benfica.
2011: April 3 - Leads Porto to their 25th league title, finishing with the biggest ever winning margin over second place (21 points).
May 18 - Porto win Europa League with a 1-0 triumph over fellow Portuguese side Braga.
May 22 - Guides Porto to a trophy treble with a comprehensive 6-2 win over Vitoria de Guimaraes in Portuguese Cup final.
June 21 - Porto confirm Villas-Boas has tendered his resignation and his contract will be terminated once his 15million euros release clause has been paid.

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Martin Jol - back in England with Fulham.
'SCHWARZENEGGER' JOL GLAD TO BE BACK

New Fulham manager Martin Jol says he always harboured ambitions to return to English football after his spell in charge of Tottenham.
Jol has been unveiled as Mark Hughes' successor at Craven Cottage, having come close to joining the London club last summer.
Jol, who has been without a club since leaving Ajax last year, spent three years in charge of Tottenham between 2004 and 2007, and he is delighted to be back in the Barclays Premier League.
He said: "Everybody knew I would like to come back. I said that when I left, like Arnold Schwarzenegger I will be back, and I am back."
The Dutchman also revealed one of the main attractions in taking the Cottagers job was that he would be in charge of a club with a proud tradition.
"I think Fulham is a traditional club, like Spurs, West Ham and all the London clubs. They gave me a good feeling and when we played here (with Spurs) we had a couple of good results, and I like the colours, black and white as well.
"I could go on but Fulham are happy, I am happy, so hopefully we can keep it that way."
Jol's first game in charge will be against NSI Runavik of the Faroe Islands in the first qualifying round of the Europa League on June 30, with the away leg following a week later.
Fulham got into the tournament due to their fair play record, and while Jol admits the early timing is not ideal he hopes having a competitive fixture will add bite to their pre-season preparations.
"This is only the second or third time Fulham have been in Europe, he said.
"So I could have said let's start (training) early in June but I thought it was a bad idea. You could consider it a friendly game with a serious touch."
Jol also said he had no frustrations about missing out on a move to Craven Cottage last summer, as Ajax refused to release him.
"Don't forget there was another problem last year as Ajax had to play in the Champions League qualifiers and there was no (release) clause and it was really difficult, but I think this was okay.
"We talked again a couple of weeks ago after Mark Hughes left and I had the same feeling and I made a decision to go back and talk to them and I decided to take the job."
The former Spurs boss insisted he harboured no hard feelings towards his old employers at White Hart Lane.
"I've got a very good relationship with [Tottenham chairman] Daniel [Levy]," he said.
"He looked after me, he always did. There's no hard feelings. Of course you'd like to stay - I would like to stay here for four, five years. Hopefully it's realistic.
"I was at Spurs three and a half years so that was probably a record so no hard feelings."
Jol refused to name possible transfer targets but reckons he will need four or five new signings to complement what he feels is already a decent squad.
"It's a good squad good, experienced players with a couple of young exciting players like [Moussa] Dembele who I know very well from Holland," he said.
"Four or five players left the club. We need strength in depth so we probably need a similar number of players - four or five."

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Fabio Capello - no Inter interest.
INTER DENY CAPELLO INTEREST

Inter Milan have denied they have approached England manager Fabio Capello to become their next coach.
The Italian giants are looking for a new tactician should Leonardo leave the club this summer to accept a sporting director's role at Paris St Germain.
Reports in Italy claimed Capello was among the candidates for the Inter hotseat.
"I can confirm that Inter has not contacted Fabio Capello or the English FA," said Inter Milan sporting director Marco Branca.
"We are not interested in Capello. There are still no developments on the coaching front."
Capello's contract with England expires after next year's European Championship and the Italian has always claimed he would see out his deal.