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CHELSEA'S record-breaking new manager Andre Villas-Boas is football's hottest property. Aged just 33 he became the most expensive manager of ALL TIME this week when the super-rich West London club spent an incredible �13.25million to buy out his contract with Portuguese side FC Porto. Yet despite coming from a wealthy family with aristocratic roots, Villas-Boas is a down-to-earth family man who rarely speaks about his domestic life. But the smartly dressed Portuguese - whose Continental good looks are set to quicken the pulses of female fans at Stamford Bridge - does love to talk about his ENGLISH background. Villas-Boas once told journalists: "I have a big nose, I have red hair and I love wine. So I have a lot of English roots." Andre's grandmother, Margaret Kendall, moved to Portugal from Cheadle in Greater Manchester to set up a wine-growing business just after the turn of the 20th Century. Her brother Douglas Kendall was a Second World War hero who flew as a wing commander in the RAF.