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This, if true is extraordinary. From a chap on Facebook in this Tottenham group you can view here. Fingers and everything else crossed, eh?
- Tim Sherwood will be appointed as Director of Football at White Hart Lane next week. This is a promotion from the position of academy director- This evolution has been on the cards for 18 months.
- Levy decided to bite the bullet last week, sticking to his original plan which had been drawn up in expectation of HR leaving to take on England and make the change largely in light of Sherwood’s outstanding work with the youths.
- Andre Villas Boas will join on a 2 year contract worth less than 1m euro per year with another 2.5m payable per season in bonuses. This information is direct from the inside WHL.
- Sherwood has known AVD for 5 years having met the Portuguese when both were enrolled on a course aimed at furnishing them with their UEFA Licenses, they have a similar philosophy and the duo will be charged with promoting youth ahead of experience, much like Roman Abramovich tasked AVB with at Chelsea last season.
- AVB was hung out to dry by Chelsea last season, he was under instruction to dispense with the old boys at the bridge and he was given no support in doing this, it was his opinion that such drastic changes would necessitate acceptance of a short period without any remarkable success and a season of aclimatisation would be required.
- Abramovich at first accepted this but was pressured by the media to get rid and he buckled. Bare in mind that CFC paid 12m for AVB and at the time he was considered the continent’s finest young coach. We are getting a great deal here, I am fully committed to Levy’s vision.
- Levy flies back in to the UK on Monday after spending Sunday in Holland where I imagine he is trying to tie up the deals for Vertonghen and also investigate the procedures that will follow on from any possible transfer of Klass Jan Huntelaar.
- Ajax retain a stake in the striker despite the fact that his move to Schalke was his third full term contract and third club since leaving Amsterdam, the Dutch side are due 20% of any future transfers that Huntelaar is involved with and Levy will be sure to try and use this in negotiations for Vertonghen.
- As I said, done deal not News International bullshit.
On the one hand, I’ve alway thought Villas-Boas was a bit of a preening twat, but on the other hand the thought of him going for us exactly what he was expected to do for Chelsea is too delicious for words.
That last bit is the bit I keep hoping for if this is true. He who laughs last laughs loudest.
Lets hope this happen
I disagree AVB was hung out to dry. He simply failed to deliver and ended up alienating the whole squad. Ive not read a single article after he left Chelsea that any player was happy while he was there. Quite telling that !!
I think it was complex. Roman wanted Torres to play, AVB was faced there with a bloke in rotten form.
Plus Terry, Cole & Fwank ‘decided’ they didn’t him.
If he cant man manage retards like Terry then he does not have what it takes. If this did happen which i very much doubt, who will you blame when it all goes tits up and it ends up Ramos 2 the sequel. AVB WOULD BE A DISASTER FOR SPURS
What? This guy cheated on his wife by rooting his mate’s girlfriend. Then he got to be England captain. How do you manage a rabid dog on heat?
i dont him either to be honest
Don’t quite see how Huntelaar ends up in the equation? or how its decided that we will sign him!
From the moment I heard AVB’s name being brandished as a possible Coach for Spurs, I have been hoping it comes to fruition. Moyes, good for Everton, but, he hasn’t anything to offer our aspiring chairman, that HR or BMJ had previously. I think we need to take a radical step in order to continue our progress up the table, as we don’t follow the pseudo-talented teams that buy the Premiership, because of someone investing in them with too much money as a toy, until they get bored. I reckon AVB would bring new quality talent that Moyes or Martinez couldn’t interest. Hey, here’s a thought… maybe, with AVB, Modric and Bale might get excited too, and stick around for a year or two!
I too like the idea of AVB coming in. If all this comes true, it would mean a radical change and we may have to accept that success doesn’t come overnight. Press would have a field day after their lapdog Harry was got rid of. Levy and us fans would have to give the new regime time, can we all do it?