Okay, here a summary of an interview Van Gaal did with the NOS(Dutch BBC) yesterday: Van Gaal denies being approached by Levy and consorts. Van Gaal confirms again he will let his contract run out with the KNVB after the World Cup. He still thinks about retiring after this summer but if a good Premier League club comes along he might just be willing to extend his managerial career. He is not willing to combine the Dutch national team with the Spurs job and will not give comments on offers he has received. The article states in the article that Van Gaal has been approached by Liverpool in 2012 but turned them down. Source: http://www.nu.nl/sport/3660688/van-gaal-wil-oranje-niet-combineren-met-spurs.html
He's taking an unfancied Iran to the WC. The Portugal gig didn't work out, got into a mess with the Portugese Anti Doping Authorities....for comments, not for having a toot before the game or anything like that!
If AVB had been capable of playing football half as entertaining as we saw yesterday he wouldn't have been in trouble in the first place. No-one gives a toss about the shots on target statistic, it doesn't give any indication of the actual quality of chances created. Soldado's chances yesterday were all off-target but were far more likely to result in a goal than the speculative long range efforts straight at the goalkeeper that AVB loved to pad his stats with. Does he have a choice? I thought it was a done deal that Hiddink was replacing him after the World Cup. I'd be very happy if we got Van Gaal even if we have to wait until the summer. Until then let's at least give Sherwood a few games before writing him off. If he's not up to it then I wouldn't mind seeing Hoddle back for the rest of the season.
Well, Sherwood appears to be playing brinkmanship with Darth Levy. So I assume he has a gig at Swindon as plan B (and they no longer need any Spurs players that can be recalled) .
In what sense? He knows the league well and according to Fergie he was key in organising several title winning sides. Seems like an upgrade on Sherwood to me.
He's really stupid if he thinks he's going to win that contest. There's no way he's getting a long term contract at this point. Well, Hoddle it is then!
Does not seem to have a very successful record in the No1 position, in fact a long line of also rans. Plus he's Portugese, have we not learnt our Iberian lessons yet? The only upgrade is the list of clubs he has been asscociated with but as I said in the no 1 position there is very little to shout about.
Nor me. I think he's a better shout than Sherwood, plus he's said that he doesn't mind taking the job until the end of the season. It could be Hodd's chance to redeem himself.
On the flip side, he could turn into our Dalgleish! They say never go back so I do wonder if Hoddle should stay where he is or at best, work with the kids. What can Hoddle seriously achieve in half a season with a bunch of new players? Not much more than anyone else I suspect.
Avb has gone power, no more Avb or he needs time. Plus when a manager you rate is sacked you shouldn't bring up his name at every opportunity, . You don't see me dragging up Gerry Francis every day?
Our fans were singing "there's only one Harry Redknapp" at the game yesterday. Admittedly it was as a taunt at Saints because he took them down.
Saints fans absolutely hate Redknapp. Not just for taking them down and then saving Pompey, but making them watch Nigel Quashie in a saints shirt!
from the guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/dec/23/tim-sherwood-tottenham-hotspur-manager?CMP=twt_gu "Tottenham Hotspur have offered Tim Sherwood the position of interim manager to the end of the season despite the stand-in having made it clear he would prefer a longer-term and full-time deal at the club. Sherwood met the chairman, Daniel Levy, at Spurs' Enfield training centre on Monday to plot the course ahead having secured his first victory as manager, a 3-2 success at Southampton, over the weekend. Those talks extended through much of the day with the hierarchy making it clear they are considering more experienced candidates to take over in the summer. Contact has already been made with Holland's head coach, Louis van Gaal. Yet they have been impressed by their technical co-ordinator since he replaced André Villas-Boas last week and, with Van Gaal or Frank de Boer unavailable until the end of the season at best, they are willing for the 44-year-old to take the reins for the foreseeable future, starting with the visit of West Bromwich Albion on Boxing Day. That has left Sherwood with something of a quandary given his desire to secure the position on a longer-term basis. Sherwood went on record at St Mary's on Sunday saying he was not interested in taking the position "for five minutes", though he will recognise a rare opportunity to make an impression at an elite club â Spurs remain in touch with the Champions League qualification places â so early in his managerial career. That suggests compromise will be reached, with Sherwood expected to be confirmed in the position before the game on Boxing Day. The former Spurs and Blackburn midfielder, whose previous work at the club had been with the academy and development squads, has already won over some doubters at the club with the attack-minded tactical game-plan implemented on the south coast and his willingness to re-establish discipline within the senior squad. "People may think that [his reputation does not carry weight] but Tim will take no nonsense from anybody," said the full-back, Danny Rose. "At his first training session a couple of lads rolled out on the training pitch late and he got us in a circle and said it was unacceptable, in polite words. "He set out some new rules and you know not to mess with Tim, and that's good. Punctuality was one of them: when we go down to eat, for team meetings but stuff on the training pitch as well. When he speaks, you've got to listen. "Recently we've not played the Tottenham way, attacking and counter-attacking, and it's been hard with only one striker up front. "Tim has said he doesn't know if he'll get the job but that's how Tottenham should be playingâ like we did in the second half on Sundayâ and that's what we're trying to do, play attacking football. At times we know we may concede, but we want to be scoring quite a few goals every game." Rose worked heavily with Sherwood, who rejoined the club in 2008, in his original capacity as a first-team coach under Harry Redknapp before taking up the technical co-ordinator role. The full-back credits him, along with Redknapp, for improving his attitude. "Tim has been backing me and a lot of the other youngsters for a good three or four years," he said. "He came to the club and, probably about four years ago, I sat down with him and Harry and they told me I needed to train a lot harder to have a chance in the team. From when I did change my attitude on the training pitch, I won Tim over and from then he has always been pushing me to try to get into the team." Spurs will continue to consider their options in terms of finding a permanent successor to Villas-Boas but have been encouraged by Van Gaal's desire to coach in the Premier League after talks on Sunday. The 62-year-old former Barcelona, Ajax and Bayern Munich manager is contracted with Holland until the end of the 2014 World Cup finals and will not job-share up to then. Indeed he is sure to receive other lucrative offers to extend his coaching career after the tournament in Brazil, though Spurs would potentially represent an attractive destination. De Boer, too, has indicated he will not make a decision over his future until the summer but has his admirers at White Hart Lane."
Congratulations to the 6.98% of Spurs fans who got it right that Sherwood would become our next manager/head coach. Didn't see that coming!
