Phil McNulty reckons that the Bale sale was at the root of AVB's sacking, that it was because the money was wasted on expensive flops. But surely the little spiv Levy has to shoulder some of the blame for that, ultimately he would have sanctioned who was bought and sold ? As much as I love to laugh at the Spuds misfortune, you have to feel a bit sorry for AVB if he's the fall guy for Levy ****ing it up again, despicable little **** that he is. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25400583
That is quite a staggering table. AVB is the spuds most successful manager since 1899 and Spiv Levy has still given him the boot. Talk about shifting the blame.
Bear in mind Wenger's win percentage is only 57.9. We've been in worse positions than spuds at this point in the season more than once
Until Spurs fans begin to realise Levy is the problem they will always go one step forward and two backwards. There's no way given the squad they had from 2009-2012 they should have gone trophyless and with only one top four finish. AVB was clueless and a bad appointment admittedly, but it wasn't all his fault, just like it wasn't at Chelsea.
I agree with you. Levy is shirking accountability here. AVB may have wanted the players, but Levy sanctioned the mass buying. People were critical that AVB didn't know his best team - but with so many newcomers it was going to take time and sixteen games is not that long really. Still people like Levy think that money is magic dust and will cure all ills. AVB had a good record at spuds compared with some others - but he was prone to the odd 5 goals against - bless him. Looking forward to them poaching Pulis from the Palace or Hughes from Stoke or McClaren from Derby. I mean really, where are they going to turn to?
I'd argue the Premier League was much tougher when Redknapp was manager and certainly tougher when Jol was their manager. Not as many top class sides in the PL to compete with nowadays. Back when Jol was there United, Chelsea and Arsenal home or away were more or less a write off, such was the quality of those sides.
Spiv Levy hasn't got a clue what he's doing. Jol, Redknapp and now AVB, three decent managers who had the Spuds performing, albeit in patches and he's dispensed with all of them. I hope he ends up with a pool of dross to pick from because that's what the **** deserves.
They all had Gareth Bale, that was the difference. Jol maybe less so, but Redknapp and AVB definitely. It's no coincidence that with his departure they find themselves out of the running. He alone won countless games for them single-handedly last season but that was conveniently glossed over in the euphoria of victory, at the time.
Levy was hailed as some kind of hybrid of Neville Chamberlain and Mark Zuckerberg over the summer for digging his heels in and holding Real to ransom over Bale. There was a minority of people that realised the protracted saga would be detrimental for the club and also weaken them. Bale was different to Henry/RVP. Henry/RVP were star players in teams built around them. They were surrounded by quality. By shifting Bale to the middle and giving him the role they did they effectively built themselves up to fail. Whoever they bought in at that stage was never going to be good enough to tie Bale's laces. They also never truly replaced Berbatov, Modric or VDV. I actually think the sacking (at this stage) will make no difference to where Spurs finish. I was laughed at by YV in the summer for saying I thought Liverpool would finish above them and they wouldn't finish top 6. From where I'm sat Arsenal, Chelsea and City have far more quality within their ranks and Liverpool/Everton have more settled sides and a way of playing. United are poor but will finish above Spurs by virtue of having Rooney/RVP in their side and title winners. Levy dismantled the best Spurs side I've seen in my time and is being hailed as a genius. It's Stalin-esque, complete media sycophancy and a Cult of Personality. For all the hype re: Levy in 12 years of him being chairman they've only had two remotely successful seasons.
Long may it ****ing last fella All the while those dozy spuds keep defending the odious little spiv he will keep on ****ing them up. Lord knows why they think he's such a master tactician of footballing and finance. He might be shyster when it comes to extracting the most for selling his players, but he hasn't got a clue about spending in the transfer market. His approach this summer gone was on a par with Liverpool raking it in for Torres and then pissing it up the wall on Carroll, total shambles of a trolley dash. His man management skills are about as good as the North Korean justice system and he is ****ing clueless about what it takes to support a manager to make a successful team. In some ways he's like Abramovich without the brains, throwing money at a problem but totally wasting it on average players. and yet the spuds seem to idolise him as some kind of demi-god mastermind
In 2011/12 Spurs were just 5 points off the title. Instead of backing Redknapp they bought in 33-year-old Louis Saha and 35-year-old Ryan Nelsen. Yet Modric and Bale were wrong for wanting to leave. This is a man that entered last season with four GK's and one fit striker, also a man that led Spurs into this season with Kyle Walker and Kyle Naughton as first choice full backs If you pay peanuts you get monkeys. Berbatov, Modric, Bale, Prince Boateng, Pienaar and Van Der Vaart have been sold and Dempsey, Sigurdsson, Soldado and Paulinho were the replacements.
AW must count himself lucky to be offered an increased contract despite several years of abject failure. How comes no one said anything about the mauling we got at Citeh? We were comprehensively beaten, despite Aguero missing 2/3 of the match. We were beaten 8-2 at Manure a while back and there have been so many shambolic results over the years. Yet when small teams like Norwich/Fulham go to Citeh and get a pasting, people call for heads to roll. I do not agree with AVB's sacking, or any maanager losing their jobs, just puzzles me when our fans gloat over AVB's sacking...... AVB has only been in the job 2minutes, what has Wenger got to show for the past 8yrs? Spuds at least show they are not content with they perceive as a lack of progress, they want to get on to the next level. We on the other hand are content with scraping for 4th spot.... Wenger's target is always the 4th spot trophy. Yesterday, I was watching goals on Sunday on Sky Sports, they showed the goals in the Carling cup final against Birmingham.... I just changed channels!
Deflect from what failures? We spent all day on Saturday talking about it and analysing it. It was one bad result and game in a season where we are currently top of the league and have progressed out of the hardest CL group imaginable. Yeah sure, things could be even better, but the nature of this league means that nearly every team goes through a blip or two. City is out of the way, now we look forward to the Chelsea game and see how the team responds. In the meantime, we laugh at our idiotic neighbours, because that's what football fans do. It's called rivalry and Spurs are and will always be our biggest rival, so when they fail, we laugh. It's pretty simple, really.
Not really quite sure why you are conveniently ignoring the fact that AVB did not make the CL last year and looked like missing out this year. I don't think you can put Wenger in the same category as AVB, We are top of the table and in the last 16 of the CL, Spurs are mid-table. It just seems so warped when you post this stuff. Do you "actually" mean you cant see the difference between AVB and Wenger, or are you just saying that for effect? But either way it doesn't seem like it is genuine, because the difference is glaringly obvious.
