Originally posted by Red_Polo
View Post
-
Apparently there are a few issues, one being he simply doesn't want to live here.Vive la France -
Its odd they are claiming that Soldado was an AVB signing. Especially considering he never looked like he knew how to use him.*Except Michael, who died.Comment
-
I think it is a bit like Rafa with Keane (but if anything worse) - they could work in an overall plan but without other pieces of that plan they are ineffective and the money could be better spent. To me it looks like he got all of the defensive players he wanted but not the creative ones. The problem for Spurs has been the supply line and if these reports are true then perhaps the problem is players being bought in who were a poor fit for AVBs ideas.Originally posted by Alex View Post"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
-- William BlakeComment
-
"Most of the signings were perhaps suggestions to him, but he agreed to those suggestions," Ferdinand told US podcast Beyond the Pitch.
"The bottom line is he agreed to all of those signings. It wasn't a case that the players were brought in and he was told 'You have to make a team of these players', because if you're a manager and that happens, you're destined for the sack.
"From speaking to AVB, I understand he was happy that the players came to the club."
linkComment
-
[ame]https://twitter.com/SamWallaceIndy/status/413691842006237184[/ame]Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
-
Man wishing to keep own job sides with current bosses shocker!Originally posted by Bender View Post"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
-- William BlakeComment
-
Tis the season of goodwill, so let's cast our minds back to happier times
Classy of Les to stick the boot in on AVB. 'If I kiss Levy's ass maybe I'll get a promotion'.Comment
-
Not sure who he is but the guy playing CB against us and WH is ****ing hopeless.
EDIT: Capoue?Modifying post.Comment
-
Capoue was moved back from midfield against us wasn't he? Dawson wasn't much better though.Originally posted by Buzzo View Post"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
-- William BlakeComment
-
Capoue yeah but he's a midfielder playing at the back for some reason.Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
-
£100m spent, and they need to have a Midfielder covering CB.
He is buggering everything up positionaly for them.Modifying post.Comment
-
Chiriches (?) was all over the shop last night too... Long may it continue!Comment
-
This is funny. Sherwood is Mike Bassett in disguise
Tottenham Hotspur mixed up as Tim Sherwood puts it in the mixer
Spurs' approach against West Ham was unashamedly British and the polar opposite of André Villas-Boas's, but wholesale overhauls are hard enough in pre-season, never mind December
David Hytner
The Guardian, Thursday 19 December 2013 15.43 GMT
For the first 10 minutes at White Hart Lane on Wednesday night, it was tempting to think that the home crowd had not had it so good in ages.
Knee-jerk nonsense, of course, but tempting. Against West Ham United in the Capital One Cup quarter-final, Tottenham Hotspur flew out of the blocks, they created chances and the stadium crackled with excitement. It was like old times.
This is Tottenham, though, and the rough inevitably comes with the smooth. Into the last 20 minutes and leading through Emmanuel Adebayor's redemption shot, they ran out of gas. They made errors on the ball and were suddenly vulnerable. West Ham punished them.
Tottenham still created three excellent opportunities but they could not take them and, for the second time this season, we were treated to the sight of Big Sam Allardyce smiling that big smile and revelling in a big West Ham win at the home of their hated rivals.
Allardyce could add Tim Sherwood, the Tottenham caretaker, to André Villas-Boas, who was sacked on Monday, on the list of those he has outmanoeuvred. "I thought they might have sat back and protected that [the 1-0] but they didn't," Allardyce said, almost shaking his head at Sherwood's folly. "They went for the second and we started exploiting the spaces that were left."
Sherwood is caught betwixt and between, and so are Tottenham. He had worked with the squad for all of one day but the team he sent out was startlingly different to that of Villas-Boas. This was revolution in 24 hours. There was an old-school 4-4-2, the kitchen sink at the outset and balls into the mixer from wide areas. Sherwood called it "a complete change of mind set". He said he had asked them "to go a bit more gung-ho, and up-and‑at‑them".
It was unashamedly British, the polar opposite of Villas-Boas's continental muck, with all of that patience probing and growing into games in a tactical sense. It was actually quite enjoyable, especially at the very start, and the players felt that the crowd responded. It was not better or worse, just different, although the result was not different and there were, of course, boos upon the full-time whistle.
Sherwood's problem is that wholesale overhauls are difficult enough in pre-season. In December, it is asking an awful lot, particularly from a 44-year-old who has never previously managed in the professional game.
Take the fitness issue, which Sherwood himself brought up. Villas-Boas planned every training session from the start of pre-season with scientific precision. From one to the next, they were designed to build up his squad and enable them to sustain football at his tempo over the season. Villas-Boas was confident that the work put in would bear fruit in the decisive months towards the end.
Sherwood wants different levels but how can he change things now, as the games come every three or four days and the training sessions are geared more to recovery and team shape?
Sherwood gave the clear impression after West Ham that he was operating on a day-to-day basis; that if the call from the chairman, Daniel Levy, on Monday morning to step up from the post of youth technical coordinator had been out of the blue, then a similar tap to step back down could come at any moment. It is impossible to paint this as the ideal backdrop to the era that Sherwood hopes to sculpt.
Tottenham want a big-name permanent appointment and they began to take soundings after the 6-0 defeat at Manchester City on 24 November, when their faith in Villas-Boas had effectively died. But there is a difference between who they might want and who would be prepared to come in mid-season.
Guus Hiddink has said no and Frank de Boer, Ajax's brilliant coach, is focused on the pursuit of a fourth consecutive Eredivisie title. Guido Albers, De Boer's agent, said: "Through various channels, it has become clear to me that Spurs are interested. But the club has not approached Ajax so for us, there is not much to say about it. Frank focuses entirely on Ajax."
Mauricio Pochettino has his admirers in the Tottenham boardroom but he is immersed in his job at Southampton, from his exciting first-team to the academy sides that he watches regularly. His chairman, Nicola Cortese, has supported him in the transfer market and Pochettino has even been allowed to propagate the myth that he does not speak English to maintain a distance with the media.
Tottenham may be better off waiting until the summer but they do not want to. Nor will they consider this to be a season of transition. The target remains Champions League qualification. If they missed out and were still to need a manager, they would be less attractive to the elite.
Betwixt and between. Tottenham have a headache.Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
-
Originally posted by Shaggy
That list must be on the back of a post-it note.Comment
-
I quite liked this on the BBC. Followed by a 'Who is Tim Sherwood' piece.
Up for the challenge AND opinionated. Spurs would be madTottenham caretaker boss Tim Sherwood believes he has "got to be in the frame" for the vacant managerial position at White Hart Lane.
Sherwood, who took charge after Andre Villas-Boas's sacking on Monday, watched Spurs lose 2-1 to West Ham in Wednesday's League Cup quarter-final.
"I've got to be in the frame, but it's not my decision, unfortunately," said the 44-year-old ex-Tottenham player.
"I'm up for a challenge. I always have been. I'm very opinionated."
not to give him the job with those credentials, though part of me thinks Sherwood is a smokescreen so it doesn't seem completely mental when they give the job to Hoddle.
Its great!Modifying post.Comment
Comment