' Spurs sack their manager this morning '

Monday 16th December 2013


Andre Villas-Boas: Tottenham sack manager


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.



"Andre Villas-Boas has been on the brink. He was summoned to meet Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy last night. But the question is where do Spurs turn to now? What is the alternative?

"In the radio interviews after the loss to Liverpool, Villas-Boas looked like a broken man. He looked like he had lost belief."

Former Chelsea boss Villas-Boas, 36, took over at Tottenham in July 2012.
"The club can announce that agreement has been reached with head coach Andre Villas-Boas for the termination of his services," said a Spurs statement.
"The decision was by mutual consent and in the interests of all parties."
Villas-Boas was dismissed by Chelsea in March 2012 after just over eight months in charge at Stamford Bridge, and he was hoping to rebuild his reputation at Tottenham.
He won 53.7% of his league games in charge, which is the highest of any Spurs manager since the Premier League era began in 1992.
But Villas-Boas had come under increasing pressure in recent weeks as his side struggled to keep pace with the top four in the league.
Tottenham lost 6-0 to Manchester City on 24 November and, despite a draw against Manchester United and wins at Fulham and Sunderland, the defeat by Liverpool proved the final straw for the Spurs hierarchy.
Villas-Boas fact file
1977: Born in Porto on 17 October
1993: Works as a trainee under Sir Bobby Robson at Porto
1994: Achieves Uefa C coaching licence in Scotland
2002: Becomes part of Jose Mourinho's staff at Porto
2004: Follows Mourinho to Chelsea
2008: Moves with Mourinho to Inter Milan
2009: Appointed manager of Academica
2010: Named Porto boss
2011: Wins league, cup and Europa League in first season
2011: Takes over at Chelsea, but is sacked in early 2012 after 40 games in charge
2012: Replaces Harry Redknapp as manager of Tottenham Hotspur
2013: Leads Spurs to a fifth place finish and to the last 16 of the Europa League in his first season in charge
Villas-Boas said he would not "resign" as he was not a "quitter" after the loss to the Reds but, after being summoned to a meeting with Spurs chairman Daniel Levy, his future was taken out of his hands.
"We wish Andre well for the future," added the Spurs statement. "We shall make a further announcement in due course."
The early names being linked with replacing the Portuguese include current Russia boss and former England manager Fabio Capello, ex-Chelsea manager Roberto Di Matteo, Swansea boss Michael Laudrup and Tottenham's current technical director Franco Baldini.
Former Tottenham playmaker and ex-England boss Glenn Hoddle has also been mentioned as a contender.
Former Spurs striker and BBC presenter Gary Lineker tweeted: "Would love to see Glenn Hoddle given another chance at this level. Has a brilliant football mind."
Italian Baldini, 53, helped oversee the club's transfer dealings during last summer when the club had to contend with the sale of Gareth Bale to Real Madrid for a world record £85.3m.
Bale scored 21 goals last season as Spurs finished a point behind fourth-placed Arsenal to miss out on Champions League qualification.
Tottenham recruited Paulinho, Roberto Soldado, Nacer Chadli, Etienne Capoue, Christian Eriksen, Vlad Chiriches and Erik Lamela with the money from the sale of the Wales international but the team has been unconvincing so far this season.
Villas-Boas had only managed one win from his previous six home league games, with his side scoring just 15 goals in 16 top-flight matches.


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Tottenham booed off after 5-0 defeat
However, in contrast, Spurs won their six Europa League group games to progress to the last 32 of the competition, where they will meet Ukrainian side Dnipro.
Villas-Boas also guided Tottenham into the quarter-finals of the Capital One Cup and they face West Ham at White Hart Lane on Wednesday, 18 December.
His latest departure comes after his failure to have the same kind of impact he did in his early managerial days in Portugal.
Villas-Boas helped secure Academica's top-flight safety having taken over the side when they were bottom of the league and without a win.
He moved on to Porto where, in 2011, he won the Portuguese league by 21 points without losing a game, the Europa League with a 1-0 victory against compatriots Braga and the Portuguese Cup.

No surprise there, it was coming

The Club can announce that agreement has been reached with Head Coach, Andre Villas-Boas, for the termination of his services. The decision was by mutual consent and in the interests of all parties.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25397167

Got Capello written all over it. Even has his mate working there already.

'Arry must be fuming!

I smell abit of Laudrip

2nd highest win rate in Tottenhams history

levy has always been a prick mind

It has got Beaker written over all over it but I wonder if Laudrup is tempted after proving his stones with the Inbred Invertebrates? The Gower is very pretty but unfortunately its got Swansea attached to it and his Mrs ain't a Poundland type of gal.

I smell abit of Laudrip

Got de ja Vue written all over it for swans?

Take a gamble Mr Levi.....bring back Hoddle.

I wonder who it could be?

Spurs like playing pretty but ultimately ineffectual football..... they consider themselves succesful but are bitter as they know they really just live in the shadow of their nearest rivals (white kit/red kit)....they are still in the ITV4 cup....they are based in crime sodden, drug infested area.....

Where could they find a manager who'd understand?

I think I can give much more clarity on AVB's sacking as there are two stories at Spurs I've known about for around a year. (If anyone cares!) The only thing in football I've ever been 'in the know' about...

1. This won't be a big surprise - Spurs told Gareth Bale in confidence that he would be aloud to leave last summer about fifteen months ago on the agreement that he would give them another season, which he did, and that he wouldn't make this public information or leak to any bidding parties. To his huge credit Bale and his agent kept his mouth shut the whole time even when the press here were making him out to be villain AND a higher transfer fee meant less of a signing on fee for him. Things did get rocky when Spurs were playing hard ball but they always intended to sell. Bale left the club with huge respect from the staff at Spurs.

2. AVB. AVB has not been liked at Spurs for about nine months. Last spring he held 'supposedly secret' talks with PSG and accepted their job offer to replace Carlo Ancelotti. But then PSG did a u-turn on AVB and oppted to wait for Laurent Blanc instead. AVB went public a couple of months later claiming he had turned PSG down and made himself out to be a hero, but the opposite was true. Everyone, players and staff knew about AVB's accepting of the PSG offer and he has long since lost respect of employees of the club. Why it has taken almost a year to sack him I can't tell you. Contacts? Something to do with signing these big name players in the summer? I don't know. All I can say is he won't be missed there and, in my opinion, he definitely deserved to go.

Gareth Bale leaving may have been the start of the end for Andre Villas-Boas -

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/ ... -1.1630000