Sherwood has been shooting off his mouth a lot in the media about his time at Spurs since he left, a lot of it rather self-serving, and I've lost some respect for him because of it. Ferdinand also annoyed me when he started telling tales during the Europa League game punditry he did a while back. It was the stuff about joking to Dembele about going to Real Madrid - harmless training pitch banter really but to me it grated, because selling Bale and Modric was such a contentious issue for so many fans that to reveal he joked about it to other players put me out a bit.
Anyway, Sherwood as a coach. Well he did have an interesting manner with the media and said too much/the wrong things at points. Some of his comments about our scouting and youth players were well wide of the mark, as others have said. Then again perhaps some of what he said needed saying - what he said about giving players who showed quality and desire game time, rather than players with big names and big price tags is after all what Pochettino is doing. Sometimes I guess he put things across the wrong way, maybe due to inexperience and a desire to overtly show himself to be this no nonsense, more old-school manager rather than like AVB. He certainly did try to play entertaining, attacking football and got a lot out of Eriksen and Ade, and its probably fair to give him some credit for Bentaleb's emergence and Kane's progress. At the same time he made some very odd choices - the Chelsea game being a prime example of this - and his record in cups and big games wasn't all that great at all.
He also lost some senior players in the dressing room, most notably Lloris who now appears to be very content under Pochettino, and he clearly rubbed a lot of other people up the wrong way. Again perhaps some of that was needed really, there are clearly some bad apples in the Spurs squad still. Ade, who Sherwood seemed to have a good relationship with, is oddly enough one of them. Who knows eh?
Tim Sherwood is a pretty decent gamble for QPR in my opinion. Some people on here would have entertained the idea of him staying on as Spurs manager, and to be fair who knows what he'd have achieved as he developed as a coach and was (hopefully) backed re. transfer targets. He won't take any **** from players who won't put a shift in and he will not pick solely on reputations, and maybe the security of a contract more than 6 months long might cause him to be less brash in his interactions with players he doesn't quite see eye to eye with - and when he has to be hard he can enforce the decision by selling, rather than the players knowing he'll be off in a few months like a supply teacher. And he'll try to play entertaining football too. As a neutral, a Sherwood team would probably be a good watch, and I think a fair proportion of Spurs fans would wish him well, probably realising that the Spurs job came too early in his career for him.
Anyway, Sherwood as a coach. Well he did have an interesting manner with the media and said too much/the wrong things at points. Some of his comments about our scouting and youth players were well wide of the mark, as others have said. Then again perhaps some of what he said needed saying - what he said about giving players who showed quality and desire game time, rather than players with big names and big price tags is after all what Pochettino is doing. Sometimes I guess he put things across the wrong way, maybe due to inexperience and a desire to overtly show himself to be this no nonsense, more old-school manager rather than like AVB. He certainly did try to play entertaining, attacking football and got a lot out of Eriksen and Ade, and its probably fair to give him some credit for Bentaleb's emergence and Kane's progress. At the same time he made some very odd choices - the Chelsea game being a prime example of this - and his record in cups and big games wasn't all that great at all.
He also lost some senior players in the dressing room, most notably Lloris who now appears to be very content under Pochettino, and he clearly rubbed a lot of other people up the wrong way. Again perhaps some of that was needed really, there are clearly some bad apples in the Spurs squad still. Ade, who Sherwood seemed to have a good relationship with, is oddly enough one of them. Who knows eh?
Tim Sherwood is a pretty decent gamble for QPR in my opinion. Some people on here would have entertained the idea of him staying on as Spurs manager, and to be fair who knows what he'd have achieved as he developed as a coach and was (hopefully) backed re. transfer targets. He won't take any **** from players who won't put a shift in and he will not pick solely on reputations, and maybe the security of a contract more than 6 months long might cause him to be less brash in his interactions with players he doesn't quite see eye to eye with - and when he has to be hard he can enforce the decision by selling, rather than the players knowing he'll be off in a few months like a supply teacher. And he'll try to play entertaining football too. As a neutral, a Sherwood team would probably be a good watch, and I think a fair proportion of Spurs fans would wish him well, probably realising that the Spurs job came too early in his career for him.
