The inevitable has happened; André Villas-Boas will take over as the new Spurs manager with immediate effect. The 34 year old is one of the youngest managers in European football but became the Chelsea manager last year after winning the Europa League at Porto, almost emulating the success of Jose Mourinho, that was pretty much the only reason he got the top job at Stamford Bridge. But after nine months of underperforming with The Blues, he lost his job and has been jobless since (despite being linked with every single job in world football).
Early signs would show that the Tottenham faithful are pleased with AVB’s appointment, but for me he’s nothing more than your average Joe (or José in this case), who’s been lucky, and will end up selling used cars sooner rather than later. One of Villas-Boas’ main policies at Chelsea was to immediately chuck older players onto the scrap heap. Bad news for Ledley, Jermain, Brad and co. The clash of personalities also lead to his demise at Chelsea, this must rule out any chance of a return for fans favourite Emmanuel Adebayor.
Apparently Daniel Levy is willing to trust this bloke with £50m to spend on new players, whether this includes the sale fee of Luca Modric is unknown. For someone who’s list of signings include Raul Merieles and Oriol Romeu he’s gone nowhere near proving himself in the transfer market, to trust him with this amount of money would be madness, if not financial suicide.
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If Villas-Boas is to succeed at Tottenham he must adapt to a new style of football. Something which is alien to him. For a start he must learn to use Gareth Bale as a wide left midfielder and buy a half decent right midfielder (not play a striker out wide) and a brand new forward. As well as that he must strengthen his central defence.
I’d love to see AVB succeed, it’s always nice to see a new team competing for the title, but sadly I don’t see it happening. AVB has a serious lack of control over his dressing room, is imtimidated by his senior players, is too sensitive to tatctical adjustment and not provern in English football. But having said that football’s a strange old game…
I’ll leave you with this…
Does the name Juande Ramos ring any bells? He was the last foreign manager to be brought in to take Tottenham Hotspur to ‘the next level’. Mr Ramos was sacked before November during the 2008-09 season having drawn two matches and lost the rest in Spurs’ first eight games of the season. Juande Ramos is now managing Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. That well known Ukrainian team.
Is that AVB’s fate or can he rectify his awful history in England?
Only time will tell….
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Harry out, AVB out. Get a life. At least let us see what happens. He had a great record in Portugal, then went to the dark side. That lesson could be what he needs to get us into the top three. At least he appears to be clearing the decks of the “fringe” palyers. I will wait and see who else he signs.
He will fail like he did at Chelsea look at the Chelsea team compared to this spurs team if u can’t win with very good players and unlimited cash how u going to win with mostly average and some good players???
Spurs should have given David Moyes the job he is an amazing manager
Chelsea team? Spoilt , mind locked and arrogant, unresponsive to new tactics and crying to daddy(RA). Yes!! Ripe soil for new ideas??? Like hell!! Ripe for more bull effluent only…CL fluke was the last ride of teh old guard at SB
Chelsea fan perhaps?
What do you know? He hasnt even got through pre-season and your saying he’s doomed. Why dont you write something intesting about your own club?
Doomed? i think not – we havent even kicked a ball yet! write something inteesting instead of boring us with conjecture and your biased fantasies
This type of story is really starting to wind me up for a number of reasons. The main ones are the season has not started, we do not have an egotistical squad like Chelski and we are NOT Chelski. Get life or a proper job instead of sitting there typing crap like this.
Before the Chelsea debacle any Spurs fan would have bitten his arm off to have a young manager that led his team to an unbeaten season and a european cup. You can’t judge someone on one mistake. Every successful man has failed as long as he embraces the failure and learns from he’s set to be very good
I’d love to see A.V.B succeed ,,really well you have a strange way of showing it ,most points are utter tosh you plankton sifting waste of skin .
What a daft article. Adebayor is 28, so not ancient like Drog/Lamps etc.
Also, I dont understand the used cars bit – is this supposed to be funny? He’s already a multi-millionaire, so why sell cars?
I think perhaps you are a knob.
Jeez, get a life. We moan that the press are negative & against us but who needs the press when our own fans are so down!
Give the guy & any other manager we have, a break.
Why do people bother writing this stuff?
The blindingly obvious difference is, our motto is not “we like we buy”, but “to dare is to do!”
Spot on sunshine! lol
I can’t defend his tactical stubbornness, but the author shouldn’t judge AVB’s man management skills just from his time at Chelsea. Players at Porto loved AVB. When you have arrogant, over-hyped and over-paid players like Chelsea have and combine those players w/ an impatient and unreasonable owner like Roman, you would have a recipe for failure. The reason RDM succeed was because RDM had bent and handed his arsehole to the chelsea players. Surely that’s not man management right?!
idiot
The biggest problem with Ramos was that he didnt speak English.
AVB might not have been my 1st choice for Spurs but give the man a chance at least.
Well you have certainly dared, but Mr Levy of course was not at the bucket load of terrible performances over which Boas presided last season. I am no supporter of the constant change policy at CFC, indeed I think it was foolish to part with Ancelotti, but this fellow was truly a disaster due to his inabilty to manage men who have more medals than he has clean socks.
fair point, AVB looks much better suited to Spurs than Chelsea due to their style of play and personnel. Terry was never going to accept change, let`s hope PSG are ready to start hoofing the ball forward.
Really poor article. You’re entitled to think that AVB will not succeed but you need to back this up with a coherent argument. Saying he “will end up selling used cars sooner rather than later” is pretty lame. The fact is it is a gamble, but you cannot judge him by a very short spell at Chelsea. More experienced and more successful managers have met their demise there. Look at Phil Scolari – won the world cup with Brazil but didn’t cut it at Chelsea. Chelsea is a notoriously difficult place to go and manage. AVB was a young inexperienced manager and was never given a chance by the senior players. If you do not have the senior players on your side you have no chance. If the Spurs players allow him to settle and buy into his philosophy then there is no reason for him to not be successful. The only thing I would agree with in your article is that time will tell…..
AVB had tremendous success at Porto playing a 4-3-3 pressing game with a high back line. At Chelsea he didn’t have the players with the pace and energy to play that way, at Tottenham he has. He also wont be faced with an established group of players who cant and/or wont adapt, so he needn’t fear the sack. I’m a lifelong Chelsea fan and despite last season success after his departure, I wish he were still with us for the long haul. I suggest you give him the time we didn’t.
@Ranners….luckily at Spurs AVB will have more clean socks than the players have medals 🙂
So much wrong with this article…underperformed with Chelsea, when he left them they were 5th, by the end of the season they were 6th.
Not proven in English football…to an extent…however he done all his UEFA coaching licenses in the UK and spent several years as Mourinhos tactical mind at Chelsea – his knowledge of the english game and his opponents, is probably better than most.
He was doomed at Chelsea before he even began with the egotistical players in the dressing room, something he wont have to contend with at Spurs.
Its a gamble, but to mention him in the same bracket as Ramos is an insult to Villa Boas. He was not given the time to implement his theories on Chelsea, something Abramovich quite publicly made clear. Ramos’ Seville success was down to the Director of Football more than himself
Are you John Terry’s brother? Doom merchant.
If you’ve had your finger on the pulse of Spurs fans, you’d know that all the so called “old” players you’ve listed would not be missed. You’d also know that we’ve been fed up with the spate of aged players HR signed & lumbered us with. All you’ve done is come across as a bitter Chav fan. Poor research = poor article. If that’s your level of journalistic competence, maybe you should give it up mate.
AVB was sacked by Chelsea. But when have CFC ever been able to recognise a successful manager. They even sacked Mourinho! duh