Former Tottenham head coach Andre Villas-Boas has claimed that chairman Daniel Levy was keen to offload him to PSG in 2013.
The Portuguese took over at White Hart Lane in July 2012, having been sacked by Chelsea five months previously. He ultimately left Spurs in December 2013, but it seems that efforts were made to part ways sooner.
In an interview with The Telegraph, Villas-Boas explained how Levy urged PSG to buy out his contract. He said:
"The PSG offer was on the table. Yeah, Daniel [Levy] wanted to sell me for £15m. PSG obviously didn't want to pay £15m and there were a lot of things that weren't right with [PSG], particularly on their approach. I decided to stay, for my love of Tottenham."
But the situation precipitated a souring of Villas-Boas' relationship with Spurs. The 44-year-old continued:
"I think Tottenham were waiting for me to go and that's it. That was the stepping stone for the beginning of a bad relationship for that season [2013/14]."
After leaving Spurs, Villas-Boas went on to coach Zenit Saint Petersburg, Shanghai SIPG and Marseille – with the latter dismissing him in February 2021 after he publicly criticised the board over transfers.
But he was soon back in sport, making his World Rally Championship debut in the WRC3 class at the Rally de Portugal.
