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Andre Villas-Boas - Head Coach

Jordinho said:
We aren't selling Hudd though. Think there's a January recall clause.
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Would make sense, a lot of the reasoning behind a loan deal would be for him to get his fitness back. A season on the bench won't have done him any good. However, I'm still not convinced there is a role for him in this AVB side, and these loan deals are often extended or made permanent.
 
I'm pretty excited by AVB even though we lost on Saturday. We looked extremely tight and well formed, it was just individual mistakes that cost us. I think he is going to get the best out of Bale and Lennon and those are two players I love watching. I love Huddlestone and I love VDV but seeing someone with a very clear vision is kind of inspiring I think. His football seems like the future and I think we have the chance to be ultra consistent under him and less likely to capitulate in that typical Spurs way. I think we'll be a more difficult side to play against.
 
billyiddo said:
it seems to me a lot of posters on here over the past X amount of seasons having been crying out for us to 'shift the deadwood' and now that it seems we are finally starting to trim our squad down half of us are up in arms over it.

deadwood is obviously overly harsh on Huddelstone and Dawson who i don't consider bad players btw
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Ah, but fans are only happy when the manager does something that particular fan approves of. 'Deadwood' differs according to different posters. Ergo, some think he's cutting away our unwanted players, others that he's pulverizing the spine of the team.
 
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Park Lane James said:
Apparently AVB wants to sell the Bill Nicholson statue to subsidise Carlton Cole's wages and has agreed to re-brand the club to incorporate our main colour as red to appeal to the Chinese market
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Would be acceptable to Saudi Sportswashing Machine fans
 
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We're doing all we can! Villas-Boas pleads for patience while Spurs search for win

Andre Villas-Boas has called on Tottenham fans to be patient after his wait for a first win in charge continued with a 1-1 draw against Norwich on Saturday.

Villas-Boas had failed to excite the majority of Spurs fans during his first two games in charge and today's offering hardly set the collective pulse of the home crowd at White Hart Lane racing.

Tottenham lacked confidence and looked tense throughout a disappointing first hour which could have seen the home side go 3-0 down had it not been for some excellent goalkeeping from Brad Friedel.

Mousa Dembele opened the scoring on his debut with 22 minutes left, but Spurs crumbled under pressure for the third week running and conceded another late goal - this time through Robert Snodgrass - to leave with just a point.

The home fans made their feelings known by booing their team off the pitch.

Villas-Boas understands the fans' frustration, but insists he is doing everything he can to put things right.

'You have to accept their disappointment. It has not been the ideal start to the season, but it doesn't mean that we haven't been working hard to get the wins that our fans want,' Villas-Boas said.

'They have to understand that we are doing everything in our power to get that win.

'Obviously this is not the start we wanted and the start we deserve.

'We had two good games, Saudi Sportswashing Machine and West Brom, that we didn't win.

'Everybody wants to build more confidence but getting those first three points.

'Today it was disappointing for us to suffer again in the dying moments of the game and we have to work on our sharpness and concentration to make sure it doesn't happen again.'

Friedel's position in the first team has come under question after Villas-Boas signed Hugo Lloris from Lyon for a fee that could rise up to £12million.

And on today's evidence, the Frenchman will have a tough task on his hands to wrest the number one jersey off the American's back.

Friedel, 41, denied Snodgrass twice and also saved brilliantly from Anthony Pilkington to suggest that his run of 307 consecutive Premier League starts may not come to an end when Spurs take on Reading after the international break.

'Brad deserves to keep his place at the moment,' Villas-Boas said. 'In the first half he was outstanding.

'Brad deserves full credit for what he has been doing in pre-season and throughout his time in the Premier League.

'You also have to look into the future and we have done a good transfer in bringing Lloris in.'

Villas-Boas expressed his delight at both the performance of second-half substitute Dembele and the deadline-day capture of Clint Dempsey.

The Portuguese revealed a deal was also desperately close to conclusion for Porto playmaker Joao Moutinho.

'We agreed player terms late but there were situations regarding the contract that were not right so we didn't complete the transfer,' Villas-Boas said.

'We have enough cover without him. Moutinho's transfer not happening should not overshadow the fact we have pulled off one of the biggest coups of the transfer market with Clint Dempsey, who is a player who can really help us to go one step further.'

Villas-Boas' opposite number Chris Hughton has seen his team bounce back from their opening-day drubbing at Fulham with two consecutive draws.

The former Tottenham coach praised the performance of Snodgrass, who fired through a crowded penalty area five minutes from time to seal the draw following a sustained period of pressure which saw an experienced home defence buckle under pressure.

'Arguably we deserved to win,' Hughton said. 'This is a tough place to come but we created a lot of chances.

'The thing I was most pleased with was the response. We are playing quite well at the moment, but to go one behind here, not let our heads drop, force the equaliser and then have a chance to win at the end, speaks volumes for the team.'

Villas-Boas, meanwhile, looks set to appeal the red card that was issued to Tom Huddlestone for a foul on Jonny Howson.

'It was extremely harsh,' Villas-Boas said. 'We will probably look to appeal it.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...Villas-Boas-urges-Tottenham-fans-patient.html
 
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Did they write that afresh, or just just did out a year old article and do search and replace on Chelsea with Tottenham?
 
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Viper said:
Did they write that afresh, or just just did out a year old article and do search and replace on Chelsea with Tottenham?
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Explain that to the rest of the class?
I remember Chelsea having a great start to last season.
AVB won 9, drew 2 and lost 1 from his first 12 games.
 
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Modric THFC said:
Explain that to the rest of the class?
I remember Chelsea having a great start to last season.
AVB won 9, drew 2 and lost 1 from his first 12 games.
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Only if you include cup games against weak opposition
 
AVB The Facts

He inherited a team that got 5 points from 8 games at the back of the season.

Since then we have sold our best player an another one of our best.

All the other teams have strengthened. We bought 3 players in the last 3 days leaving no time to bed them in for the starting line up.

We got 1 more point in this figure than we did last season despite having a weakened starting line up.

And finally, shut the fck up with the sack avb nonsense already. We are going to talk ourselves into a relegation battle.
 
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SOme of that is true however the difficult thing for a lot of fans will be accepting that this season will be somewhat a transition season. So many new players to be in and a manager who will play a very different style and formation to the last. That will take time

The saving grace is that Liverpoo and Arse dont look amazing so there is hope provided we're not too far adrift by thte time the players start to gel
 
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Just so glad we have the international break. Once we start with Ade, Dembele and Dempsey in the same line up we will be fine .
 
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Yiddonew said:
Just so glad we have the international break. Once we start with Ade, Dembele and Dempsey in the same line up we will be fine .
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And Parker. Think my midfield and forwards would be:

--------Parker-------Dembele

---Lennon------Dempsey-------Bale

----------------Adebayor---------

Dont think Sandro, Defoe and Siggy have done enough for a spot. Livermore not good enough
 
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I dont blame Avb for all this. I am going to back him. We were playing like this at the end of the last season.

However, the decision to start defoe up front on his own has to be questionned. I dont know how fit Ade is, but id rather an unfit Adebayor than defoe up front.
 
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Yiddonew said:
And finally, shut the fck up with the sack avb nonsense already. We are going to talk ourselves into a relegation battle.
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While I broadly agree with your sentiments you do realise that it's not possible for a bunch of whingers on a message board to get us into a relegation battle nor is it any more possible for a bunch of mindless optimists to get us to make a clean sweep in every competition we enter this season, it all comes down to the team. :D:D:D
 
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Gordinho said:
While I broadly agree with your sentiments you do realise that it's not possible for a bunch of whingers on a message board to get us into a relegation battle nor is it any more possible for a bunch of mindless optimists to get us to make a clean sweep in every competition we enter this season, it all comes down to the team. :D:D:D
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:lol:
 
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