Tottenham Hotspur

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Andre Villas Boas has an excellent eye for players, quick and technical. His tactical knowledge and scouting cannot be questioned.

Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. Your way off target mate

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TOTTENHAM's transfer dealings in the latest window have exposed early tension in the relationship between manager Andre Villas-Boas and the White Hart Lane board.

Sunday Express Sport can reveal that some of the summer signings were not driven by Villas-Boas – the Portuguese boss even being overruled on some of his targets.

Not only did chairman Daniel Levy take a leading role in who came in and who went out of the club but billionaire owner Joe Lewis also had a major say, leaving Villas-Boas frustrated.

Villas-Boas believes that the lateness of Luka Modric’s much protracted £30million move to Real Madrid affected the chances of signing his main target, Porto playmaker Joao Moutinho.

In the end a club record bid of £22m and some 11th-hour haggling wasn’t enough to bring the player to North London.

It’s understood that Villas-Boas was keen on Manchester United midfielder Anderson but was instead pushed in the direction of Fulham’s Mousa Dembele.

Ajax’s Jan Vertonghen was a deal well down the path to fruition when the former Porto and Chelsea manager arrived. He responded by leaving the Belgian defender on the bench for Tottenham’s opening game of the season.

It’s believed the decision to bring in French international keeper Hugo Lloris was triggered by the owner Lewis.
Many Spurs fans have also expressed their disappointment in Rafael van der Vaart being allowed to leave for former club Hamburg.

On top of that, Villas-Boas still has to repair his relationship with England defender Michael Dawson, who rejected a switch to QPR, and midfielder Jermaine Jenas, who turned down a late move to Sunderland.link

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Bale Madrid! Spanish giants Real secure first option on Tottenham's £45m-rated winger

Jose Mourinho will get the first opportunity to buy should Spurs look to cash in on the 23-year-old, who only signed a new deal in June

First option: Real Madrid would get the first chance to buy Bale if Spurs put him up for sale

Real Madrid have secured first option to buy Gareth Bale.link

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TOTTENHAM's transfer dealings in the latest window have exposed early tension in the relationship between manager Andre Villas-Boas and the White Hart Lane board.

Sunday Express Sport can reveal that some of the summer signings were not driven by Villas-Boas – the Portuguese boss even being overruled on some of his targets.

Not only did chairman Daniel Levy take a leading role in who came in and who went out of the club but billionaire owner Joe Lewis also had a major say, leaving Villas-Boas frustrated.

Villas-Boas believes that the lateness of Luka Modric’s much protracted £30million move to Real Madrid affected the chances of signing his main target, Porto playmaker Joao Moutinho.

In the end a club record bid of £22m and some 11th-hour haggling wasn’t enough to bring the player to North London.

It’s understood that Villas-Boas was keen on Manchester United midfielder Anderson but was instead pushed in the direction of Fulham’s Mousa Dembele.

Ajax’s Jan Vertonghen was a deal well down the path to fruition when the former Porto and Chelsea manager arrived. He responded by leaving the Belgian defender on the bench for Tottenham’s opening game of the season.

It’s believed the decision to bring in French international keeper Hugo Lloris was triggered by the owner Lewis.
Many Spurs fans have also expressed their disappointment in Rafael van der Vaart being allowed to leave for former club Hamburg.

On top of that, Villas-Boas still has to repair his relationship with England defender Michael Dawson, who rejected a switch to QPR, and midfielder Jermaine Jenas, who turned down a late move to Sunderland.link

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Bale Madrid! Spanish giants Real secure first option on Tottenham's £45m-rated winger

Jose Mourinho will get the first opportunity to buy should Spurs look to cash in on the 23-year-old, who only signed a new deal in June

First option: Real Madrid would get the first chance to buy Bale if Spurs put him up for sale

Real Madrid have secured first option to buy Gareth Bale.link

Feeder club

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North London feeder club for La Liga

[Boogs]

I'm so glad AVB is not our manager. Bullet dodged and he really does have a very annoying way of grumbling his way through interviews which is like nails down a blackboard.

[john316]

TOTTENHAM's transfer dealings in the latest window have exposed early tension in the relationship between manager Andre Villas-Boas and the White Hart Lane board.

Sounds like AVB has learnt NOTHING from his Chelsea days. Falling out with everybody in sight including the fans. Shocked at how badly he seems to be managing the whole situation. At least it took a couple of months for Chelsea to implode under him! Definitely dodged a bullet as I thought he'd have learnt a number of lessons from his experiences there!

[Vermilion]

I'm so glad AVB is not our manager. Bullet dodged and he really does have a very annoying way of grumbling his way through interviews which is like nails down a blackboard.

This. +100

Gets right on my tits he does.

[Dhav]

Is it me or is AVB repeating the same mistakes he made at Chelsea? It seems to me that he tried to change things too quickly there with a quick turnover of players and he seems to be doing it again. There are several players there who it seems were told they were surplus to requirements but having been unable to get them out of the door he is now stuck with and he will have to juggle a squad with some very unhappy players I imagine. He seems hell bent on ripping it up and starting from scratch and asking for the fans to be patient while he rebuilds. No disrespect to Spurs fans but I very much doubt if they will be patient with him

[dww]

Is it me or is AVB repeating the same mistakes he made at Chelsea? It seems to me that he tried to change things too quickly there with a quick turnover of players and he seems to be doing it again. There are several players there who it seems were told they were surplus to requirements but having been unable to get them out of the door he is now stuck with and he will have to juggle a squad with some very unhappy players I imagine. He seems hell bent on ripping it up and starting from scratch and asking for the fans to be patient while he rebuilds. No disrespect to Spurs fans but I very much doubt if they will be patient with him

I don't think he had much choice at Spurs really - Modric was off, King has retired, VdV has been off the boil for a while and Parker is getting older. It is also far from clear how much of a say he had/has in transfer dealings.

[dom9]

Is it me or is AVB repeating the same mistakes he made at Chelsea? It seems to me that he tried to change things too quickly there with a quick turnover of players and he seems to be doing it again. There are several players there who it seems were told they were surplus to requirements but having been unable to get them out of the door he is now stuck with and he will have to juggle a squad with some very unhappy players I imagine. He seems hell bent on ripping it up and starting from scratch and asking for the fans to be patient while he rebuilds. No disrespect to Spurs fans but I very much doubt if they will be patient with him but I very much doubt if they will be patient with him

At least he is stuck with them. Carroll is at West Ham for us...

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France goalkeeper Hugo Lloris joined Tottenham on deadline day, only to be told a day later he would not be an automatic starter.
Didier Deschamps has indicated that Hugo Lloris is unhappy with comments made by his new club manager André Villas-Boas, just four days after the France goalkeeper's move to White Hart Lane.

Lloris left Lyon for Tottenham Hotspur in an £12m move on Friday, with the clear intention of taking the No1 shirt from Brad Friedel. With Friedel now 41, it appeared Lloris, 16 years his junior, had been brought in with the idea of replacing the American.

But Friedel responded to his arrival by producing one of the performances of his career against Norwich City on Saturday, prompting Villas-Boas to say that Lloris would have to fight to win a starting spot.

That does not appear to have gone down well with Lloris, who linked up with the France squad on Monday. His national manager, Deschamps, said: "Hugo has not appreciated the statements of his coach.

"I am not going to create a problem that I do not need today. But if it were to happen then it would need some consideration. I do not want Hugo to find himself in this situation." LINK

[Lee]

Such a fantastic man manager.

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