Tottenham have sacked manager Andre Villas-Boas in
the wake of Sunday's 5-0 Premier League thrashing by Liverpool.
The loss was the club's worst at White Hart Lane in
16 years and left them seventh in the table - eight points behind leaders
Arsenal.
Former Chelsea boss Villas-Boas,
36, took over at Tottenham in July 2012.
I must say I have some sympathy for AVB as it’s fairly obvious he had no
say over most of the distinctly average players that came in the summer and saw
his best player sold, hardly the best preparation for a new season.
Also despite the two heavy defeats to City and Liverpool Tottenham are
only four points of a Champions League spot without playing that well and AVB
has a high win % than all his predecessors, so he’s not done too badly.
Admittedly he didn’t help himself by playing the wrong style of football
with the players he had, he tried to play possession football but the squad was
much better set up to play on the counter attack.
I suppose he thought he had to
play a certain way as it’s what you expect a Tottenham team to do, but as the board
at Spurs seem content on dismantling the team and selling their most creative
players, Bale, Modric, Van der Vaart etc. and not replacing them it’s hardly a
surprise they’ve struggled to break teams down.
I think that’s the last we’ll see of AVB in England for a while, as I
can’t see him being given another high profile job anytime soon, and it will
also mean that I won’t have to watch commentators and pundits across the media
endlessly struggling to pronounce his relatively simple name.
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