http://www1.skysports.com/football/...t-Tottenham-will-be-able-to-spend-this-summer Andre Villas-Boas expects Tottenham Hotspur to spend this summer regardless of whether they make the UEFA Champions League. Spurs are pushing hard for a top-four finish in the Premier League and will take in a potentially pivotal clash with capital rivals Chelsea on Wednesday. Qualification for Europe's premier club competition would make it easier for them to attract top talent to White Hart Lane, and prevent their prized assets from heading through the exits. Villas-Boas is, however, of the opinion that he will be granted permission to strengthen whatever happens over the next few weeks - with Spurs determined to improve year on year. "At the moment our future must be analysed in only one direction," said Villas-Boas. "For us, the objective is always to improve the team and for that to happen either we have Champions League money to make it easier, or we have to invest and risk a bit more. "But the objective is always to better what you did last season. We have to have one direction only."
Top class striker, top class CM, top class LM, and quality backups for RM, LM and LB. And keep Bale. Oh, and a new LB, if Beni goes. Surely that's not too much to ask.
http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2013/05/07/3960741/- Bale's switch to a central role for Tottenham isn't permanent, insists Villas-Boas The Spurs boss revealed how the experimental role was first tried in pre-season and suggested that while it has been successful it's isn't necessarily a definitive change Andre Villas-Boas says Gareth Bale's switch to a central striking position is temporary solution rather than a long-term plan. The Portoguese revealed how the Welshman's shift in position was first tried and tested in Tottenham's pre-season tour of the United States. And while the Welshman has been in sparking goalscoring form down the middle, Villas-Boas isn't sure if the switch should be a permanent one. "It was born out of an experiment in Baltimore, America when we played Liverpool in a pre-season game," he told Yahoo!. "Fortunately it is something that worked for us and due to a couple of injuries it was something that we had to keep trying. "We fine-tuned Gareth to play there and he has been tremendous because his talent allows him to be adaptable. "Iâm not sure that the shift is definitive but it does give us the option of using him in different positions. At the moment, though, the goals he is getting are giving him the buzz to play there." The former Porto and Chelsea manager was also glowing in praise for Bale, who swept up all the end-of-season individual accolades, taking home the PFA Player and Young Player of the Year awards as well as scooping the FWA Player of the Year gong. "Great, he has been outstanding this season," he added of Bale. "He has enjoyed his performances and that is vital for any football player. Managers have to guard against limiting them through too much organisation, but that hasnât been the case with Gareth who has played in a different position to the one he has played in before. "Doing that has given him the chance to score more goals which has contributed to his wonderful season, plus he has the ambition to be at the very top." Interesting. To me that suggests that we're definitely in for 1 or 2 strikers in the summer. Or perhaps 1 striker and a playmaker. I think GB needs to be out wide. I know he scores goals, but he is so dangerous with crosses. Also, now he's had the "free role" experience, he's become very dangerous at cutting in from the right. Perhaps we'll see Townsend on the left, with bale on the right from time to time? It'll be nice to have the option of resting Lennon, which we just don't have right now.
Wouldn't mind experimenting with all 3 starting. The pace and skill behind the striker would be immense.
Now he's hit the level he is at i think he could still get the goals from a wide position. Ronaldo plays a sort of free-wide position and i think Baley-boy could do the same
Kenny Jackett sacked by Millwall. Hope they don't replace him with a kick & rush merchant, as we'd lose a team that our youngsters would learn and develop at. Well, maybe Archer would fit in...
Roy Keane's ****ing clueless about management. He doesn't know how to get along with people, so how can he coach a team? Is he going to be one of these ridiculous twats that bounces about from club to club for 20 years, failing everywhere and still getting jobs, somehow?
Keane is one of the worst managers to grace football management. I reckon Coyle would be a decent appointment for Millwall.
Pretty much, yes - he's one of those "managers" who gets jobs based on his reputation as a player...but they forget his reputation for being an egotist who would fall out with managers and take his ball elsewhere to sulk (i.e. the 2002 World Cup, his final couple of seasons at Man Utd), which is what he does as a manager by falling out with players and chairmen alike, before getting arsey with the media and acting like his inevitible sacking was a travesty of justice (as happened at both Sunderland and Ipswich) Millwall fans already turning on Jackett on FB and Twitter, possibly because he's already been linked to the Wolves job...or more likely because they're Millwall fans being stupid enough to live up to their reputation.
Roy Keane could start a row in a phone box! How on earth can anybody think he's fit to manage others when he can't even control himself, is beyond me.
They think that playing for Brian Clough taught him something about management. They forget that he learned about management from Alex Ferguson - just like Mark Hughes, Paul Ince, Henning Berg, Andrei Kanchelskis, Chris Casper...
It's quite embarrassing how mediocre all of Ferguson's protegees have been in management. We all know that they all dream of taking over the reins when Bacon Face pops his clogs, but none of them are anywhere near good enough. Steve Bruce is probably the best of the lot The united loving media constantly bleat on about Bacon inspiring a generation of new managers, yeah, a generation of bloody average managers who have only got jobs through their old boys network and are gradually causing the decline in the standard of English football.
Where does anyone get the idea that SAF schooled them in management? The majority set on that course long after leaving Utd. The current generation of Neville, Giggs, Scholes and Solskjaer might prove better equipped because they've started to prepare for management at the club. However, nobody else can be taught his work ethic, knowledge, experience, judgement, motivational skills etc etc etc. Some things may rub off, but I don't expect any of us would become genius theoretical physicists or cosmologists if we spent a couple of years with Stephen Hawking- or would expect to.
