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Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas says he "will never accept" his sacking from Chelsea, accusing owner Roman Abramovich of breaking his promise last season, ESPN reported.

Villas-Boas parted company with the Blues eight months into a three-year contract in March. After being lured from Porto after Chelsea met his release clause of £13.3 million, Villas-Boas claims he felt let down by Abramovich.

"I respect the decision of the owner of Chelsea, but I will never accept it," Villas-Boas said.

"I told him that for me it was him quitting on me when he had been so much involved in the beginning in bringing me in and he was the one also who was not putting up to the things he promised."

"It is all very well that you cut the project short and Chelsea go on to win two trophies and you say how wonderful the squad was, but at the beginning nobody believed in that squad when we put it together.

"It was a tremendous learning experience which I am grateful in some ways to have gone through it because it makes me a better coach and a better person at this time.

"But the decision to cut it short was not mine and for Chelsea to have won the Champions League and to have won the FA Cup was because we were still in those competitions.”