Hearing the news today about their new appointment you couldn't make it up could you. I'll call him ABV cause I can't be arsed to look up the full monty. Spurs get rid of their most successful manager for years because he didn't achieve a place in the Champs league presumably. They appoint a manager who was thought to be failing because he was unlikely to get his team into........yep the Champs league. Harry only didn't qualify because Chelsea ended up winning the thing beyond most people's imagination. There goes another English manager in favour of another foreign manager. I despair at the premier league at the best of times but this decision is a bit beyond my understanding. Is it because it is fashionable to have a foreign sounding manager and they thought they were dipping out in some way. I just can't see any other explanation.
Andre Villas-Boas........did he not drag Chelsea into a downward spiral of failure..........decided he didn't want to play their key players....such as Lampard. The moment they got rid of him .......it all changed and the rest is history.......Champions League winners. What the hell are Spurs up to....... getting rid of Harry Redknapp and bringing in Villas-Boas.........there is already talk of him ripping the present team apart and bringing in Gylfi Sigurdsson and Jan Vertonghen plus Brazilian playmaker Oscar.......who does he think Spurs are......Man City.
A very weird decision and a shame in respect of the most exciting side to have been seen in England for I don't know how long. Let's hope it doesn't now break up - I read very recently that Modric was unsettled again. I suppose Redknapp leaving was partially understandable although you'd have thought that with all the money sloshing around for players, giving Redknapp a longer contract was a drop in the ocean for someone who took the club from bottom 4 to top 4 in next to no time. But AVB? Where's the track record?
I think he has a reasonabe CV notdistant although I've never really taken much notice of it. But, Harry did brilliantly with the Spurs squad and I just don't see somebody else being better. I think Spurs Board are getting a bit too far in front of themselves because financially they cannot compete with Man U, Chelsea or Man C. I can see this guy spending a lot of their dosh and not delivering. Time will tell.
Well he didn't do brilliantly at Chelsea........ Thinking about it, maybe the appointment signifies that insiders believe AVB is a better manager for the Big Time than his time at Chelsea suggests and that his troubles there were due to a cabal of senior players who have the veto over what the manager can do......... Certainly ties in with the gossip about Stamford Bridge.
Andre Villas-Boas is only 35 years old, and has no experience as a professional footballer. But.........he has managed Academica....8 months..........Porto....1 year,taking them unbeaten through the season,winning 4 trophies and becoming the youngest manager to win a European title. He managed Chelsea for only 9 months..........I would think that the possibilty of such a young upstart could of got up the noses of the well established senior players.....and his dropping of some of them to do his own thing....failed miserable....to the extent of Chelsea falling out of an automatic Champions League place. The winning of the Champions League and FA Cup by Di Matteo as interim manager must of been rather galling for the young Villas-Boas after his big success at Porto. Ironically Chelsea winning the Champions League has push Spurs out of an automatic selection spot for this years competition. That cannot be lost on Villas-Boas who will feel that his reputation needs to prove a point or two in his new job, can he keep a managers job longer than a year ?
