A fresh new season is coming up and as ever Spurs will provide us with a lot of excitement. New season new Manager, new players?, and new methods for our team to absorb. As we all know AVB could not be more different from Harry. Night and day; Harry, old school, minimal tactics, no dossiers and therefore by definition no plan B; there was no plan A! Just go out and express your self said Harry. Players must love that and you can see that Bale, for one, took full advantage with a free roaming role. It produces some great performances and some enjoyable football. The down side is that the modern game is dominated by tactics with the 'lesser' teams employing spoiling tactics to level the playing field a bit and the rare sight of a team like Swansea becoming a sort of proto Barca. Spurs with Harry often failed to overcome teams like Wolves and Bolton, which is not surprising if we were relying on the players to sort it out for themselves. Despite my criticisms of Harry (which some may have noticed) I admire his approach to football, it's pure and it's usually exciting, but it's 2012 not the 1970's and 'pure football' will only get you so far. So in comes AVB a tactical genius, by all accounts, although some at Chelsea might disagree. It sounds like the players are in for a bit of a shock and a lot of extra work. Dossiers, tactical plans, clear (we hope) instructions to each player on what is expected of him. I can imagine that the players reactions will be mixed, some will embrace it with open arms, others will be sceptical but as professionals they ought to be able to adapt. It won't just be on the field either that they will notice the difference, their diets and their physiology's will be closely monitored. It remains to be seen what affects this will have on the performance of the team, whatever it is it should be fascinating to see it all unfold. It appears that we already have the basis of a squad that suits AVB so that's a start. Will he be able to teach Defoe to remain onside I wonder or will he be out the door. This new season is going to pose of lot of questions and, no doubt, give rise to much debate. It's the PL, AVB will have to hit the ground running and then run and run and run. Let's hope he's up to it.
I don't think anyone can teach Defoe to be onside Spurf. I'm convinced the only times he manages it are when he mis-times his runs. I can't remember the last time he was put through on goal, which is criminal considering his pace and our midfield. Hopefully the players are all open-minded enough to give the new regime a shot. When Wenger took ove at Arsenal it was a bit of a culture shock for Adams/Keown/Dixon etc but they eventually saw the benefits and bought into it. Hopefully that happens with us rather than a player revolt and a sacking like at chelsea
I think that we've got quite a lot of youngsters and few massive egos, so they should be relatively open to a new approach. Van der Vaart is probably the most obvious potential problem, but I'd like to think that Villas-Boas is smart enough to know this and approach the Dutchman in the right manner.
Guys, this is worth a listen. http://www.talksport.co.uk/radio/sp...moutinho-would-be-fantastic-tottenham-175794? (you might as well stop listening at about 5mins as it moves on to rangers) It's Graham Roberts on talksport for the second time in a week, but this time he's talking about "lots of changes" at the club. a good insight into what we can expect, and what he's been told are the "likely" plans. one thing in particular is that he seems to think Tim Sherwood WILL be the DOF. it's going to be a very exciting summer, and potentially a fantastic new season. COYS!
Because he purposely dosen't offer the movement to receive throughballs, he doesn't like one-on-ones, he plays only to his strengths, into feet so he can turn to goal and get a shot off, that is his repertoire.
got to agree with Spurf....things are going to be intresting and i do welcome the new approach..i think our club needed a shake up...AVB is going to be good for us.
