He was effectively bullied out of the club, by shortsighted fans whose poor little hearts couldnt take the fact that his dad was an arsenal fan, and due to the shocking lack of support given to him by the board who decided it was better to players and their agents boss the manager, rather than giving he manager the necessary backing. And of course he played a massive role in the development of the academy, and its players, as no doubt they would readily testify, and was responsible for bringing players like bentaleb and kane into the first team, who might otherwise never have got their chance at spurs. The guy deserves a massive amount of credit for what he did at tottenham, and its pathetic to see that fans cant find the dignity in them to recognise it. Imo.
Daft, pointless and meaningless. You dont buy players to make up the numbers, you buy players ro push for a first team place. That would have been the aspiration when stambouli and fazio were bought, and theyve proven not to be capable of the job. Thats a year wasted that could have been spent developing players who will actually serve a purpose.
You should do a spreadhseet starting with the posts you agree the most with, and ending wih the ones you disagree the most with. Oh no, hang on, noone would care less. Forget that idea
He was a farcical choice as a manager...he may become a good manager but was out of his depth. His fan club forget his whole record...they fell for the bollocks about a great win rate in 20 or so league matches but choose to forget: 1)Only 1 win in 6 cup games and that was against a team with 10 men who were leading when they went down to 10 men. 2) the first half v west brom with us being 3 nil down 3) the 4 nil chelsea match 4) the 4 nil liverpool match 5) the 5-1 city match 6) the home match v the goons where it took until 85 mins for their keeper to have to make a save 7) losing twice to west ham 8) failing to manage the whole squad, and taking no responsibility for it while taking full credit for ades form and kane and bentaleb. 9) his ****ty and embarrassing behaviour on the sidelines like throwing the ball at tge gooner player and his regular ranting at managers. 10) he agreed a short contract knowing he wouldnt be the manager beyond the end of the season yet constantly whining. and worst of all him and twatty ferdinand constantly slagging spurs fans off with lies...claiming we turned on kane last season if he hadnt scored in the first 10 minutes of a match...said by twat man during the build up to a EL match on live tv. we didnt bully him out of a job imo and he deserves sod all sympathy
The only ones I'd quibble about are Chadli, who was quite good till his father died, I thought, and perhaps Huddlestone, who I would still like to have kept. Also, while his signings do look disappointing on balance, compared to what? Who else has spent so much money on so many players? The only other team is Liverpool, and Baldini's signings look much less wretched than theirs.
I think football management must be the easiest way to make serious money in the world, perhaps apart from politicians. Once you can pull off the trick of convincing a chairman that you are the man to bring him success on the field there's your first million, if you then win a couple of games bring through a new player, give the press a good story or two you are on your way to your second million. Then comes the sack, which for most of us is a bit of a failure, not in football. The sack is usually filled with an apologetic pay off of a million or so, then off you go to convince the next mug to part with a few of his multi millions with promises of glory. Good example AVB! one season's success at Porto, a club positioned so that most people with some knowledge of the game would achieve a measure of success there and you are off on your way to multi millions for failing to achieve very much at all. Good game innit!
Holy crap, sherwood hating's an actual job is it ???!!!! Yes, mate, fancy people buying all that meaningless crap about how many games he won. Ridiculous way to judge a manager !! Here's another. Comparing aston villa's record this season in all comps, pre sherwood and under sherwood : Sherwood P11 W6 G 18 GA 13 Pre sherwood P32 W8 G 17 GA 50 Bet you theres some clueless mugs out there who just look at the results, see the total change in the club's fortunes, in terms of goals scored per game, goals conceded per game, games won per game, and try to attribute it to tim sherwood !!!!!!
Time will tell if Sherwood can perform outside of his managerial honeymoon periods. He turned us around in many respects last season but the football was far from perfect and we still had some poor results and displays, especially in the big games. Also after the post-Bale AVB Spurs, any entertainment was an improvement really! Sherwood also doubtless played a part in the development of the core of the side we see now, so kudos to him for that. My respect for him is dented because of how he has conducted himself at times, and he is undoubtedly still learning his trade as a coach, but we shall see where his career goes from here. You can only get so far on being a motivator alone, he has to prove he is more than that. Plenty of managers have very good short term results and then fall off, just as we see many one-season wonders on the pitch.
There's no doubt that Sherwood has done a good job at Villa, but he followed a guy that did an absolutely awful one. He's taken his chance and I'm sure that QPR wish they'd snapped him up now. The choice between him looking smug lifting the FA Cup and Wenger doing the same is a simple one for me. It'll be interesting to see how he deals with the transfer window this summer. He's made quite a number of claims about his eye for a player, so this is his opportunity to prove it. Villa's squad needs adjusting and they'll struggle to hold onto a few of their better players, so he's got a job on his hands. Benteke's form will have turned some heads and Vlaar's on a free. That's two big holes to fill.
Conceptual artist also comes to mind. That's the only one I know where you can become a legend by doing absolutely nothing. There's truth in this. It's very hard to send a club up the pecking order, and ENIC and Levy, despite their foibles, at least have a reasonably intelligent plan they're trying reasonably hard to implement, which makes them better than the great majority of owners. Also, I continue to appreciate the half full attitude (though I fail often enough to have it myself). While we may have been saved by the emergence of youth players, that may also be what pushed our buys into the failed camp. Put another way, if Sherwood had stayed, and Ade kept starting, wouldn't that have prevented Kane's emergence? Finally, I've gone back and forth a number of times on Sherwood, and may be going back again. He was certainly a bit of a laughingstock, and didn't handle himself before the cameras in a way I liked. His Cup and big team record was poor. But he also got his teams scoring and winning to quite a surprising degree. I'll grant that as a motivational type (sometimes he seems like head cheerleader) he may be the kind who burns a squad out. But unless and until he does, the jury remains out in my mind as to whether we should have sacked him. Put another way, Pochettino could use a strong finish to demonstrate he is the right man for the job (though I would give him more time in any case). He did very well through the Arsenal game, and has gone backward since then. Regression correlated negatively with squad rotation, interestingly. When no one was quite sure who would play, everyone seemed to play better. Then we played a long stretch with about the same team, and it looked to get stale. Making a couple of changes led to a good result, again.
Yeah, I'd agree. Lambert did such a ****ing awful job considering he'd got players like Benteke, Delph, and Grealish, that it would be almost impossible for Sherwood not to do a better one. He seems to be a good motivator, how far that will carry him, remains to be seen. He's a novice in terms of Premier league management, time will tell if he can cut it over the long term, or not.
1) have no idea what the job stuff refers to 2) Sherwood has improved villa...but they were seriously under performing under their last manger. 3) This season his cup games are included in his stats as they suit his supporters...last season they were conveniently left out of his stats because they did not suit his purpose 4) records of AVB and sherwood last season and MP this season are: AVB played 16 prem games and 10 cup games making 26 matches won 18 (one on penalties) lost 5 drew 3 ... so if we don't want to count the penalty shoot out as a won match it becomes W17 L5 D4.... either way it's an approx 64-66% win rate. Sherwood played 22 prem games and 6 cup games making 28 matches won 14 drew 4 lost 10 a 50% win rate MP played 33 prem games and 19 cup games making a total of 52 matches won 27 lost 14 drew 11 just over a 50% win rate having played far more matches Like I said people chose to believe the manipulated hype over sherwood...his record is not all it was cracked up to be...because cup matches were deliberately excluded. also sherwood would simply lie... His prem record was W13 D3 L6 making 42 pts which in turn equals 1.9 points a match Sherwood claimed on several occasions that if he'd been in charge all season his record would have got us into the top 4 and CL qualification. That was his biggest lie...it would have got us 72 points...just 3 points more than we ended up with which would have made us joint 5th with everton. In 4th were arsenal with 79 points sherwoods premier league points per game record over his 22 game reign was 1.90 AVB premier league points per game record over his 54 game reign was 1.83 MP premier league points per game record over his 33 game reign was 1.72 like I previously said...he may prove to become a good manager but at the moment there are a lot of smoke and mirrors about him my view of him doesn't equate to hate...i am simply not a fan...my views are well thought out so stop with the "clueless mugs" and "short sighted fan" and fans "lacking dignity". You wanna rate him then fine but do not expect everyone to agree with you.
I always get the impression that Sherwood has all of Redknapp's pros and cons, but without the experience. He gets performances out of some unlikely players, plays decent football and puts points on the board. He also alienates chunks of the squad, tells stories to the media and talks himself up constantly. He's still a young manager, he's not afraid to pick young players and he's getting wins under his belt. Time will tell if he can iron out some of the issues in his approach, but he's started well enough. He does bloody annoy me, though.
Going forward, the lessons seem to be: don't buy more than 3-4 in a year, and don't pay big money when you probably can't attract the biggest players. It seems very clear our priorities should be our academy and buying and developing other youth players. Buying established players one at a time is a chancy enough business. Buy a bunch of them, or pay a high price, and the odds for success dip. Trying to develop, buy and groom our future stars years in advance would also help us establish a style of play that would make buying mature players a bit less dicey.
The problem with that policy is that, sometimes, young players need an experienced hand to guide them. This has certainly worked well for us in the past, with our canny signings of Naybet and Davids in the Arnesen era - the problem is that since then, Comolli and Baldini have been happy to play Football Manager and think young players will automatically become influential first team players if they get 20+ games a season for two or three years.
We've got a big squad now, if we clear out the deadwood we need to buy quality, say two or three out and one in, we have numbers in the squad but we need to get quality in. This summer we need IMO a fair few players out and I imagine a few in too, but if we can sort that out this summer then low squad turnover in the transfer windows becomes important for stability.
There are a lot of players we might at least consider shifting. There's a glut of deep lying players in particular, especially with Alli and Carroll eligible. On the other hand, I don't think we have have a single truly right sided attacking player. I would take a big chance on signing the best one of those we can find (even while sticking to youth players as a general rule), We have three players who might start for just about anyone in Kane, Eriksen and Lloris. Adding a fourth for the price of sending three or four on their way would be killing two birds with one stone, since we simply have too many players at this point. Stambouli, for example, has been reasonably good and deserved more playing time, but got short shrift due to a glut at his position.
