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Andre Villas-Boas - Head Coach

indianspur said:
also from that Sandro interview.............

"It helps all the players a great deal that the manager speaks perfect English, perfect Spanish, Portuguese, French, and so everybody understands very clearly the message. Personally, it is a big help that the manager speaks to me in Portuguese."

:eek: wow
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That's one leg up on the former who openly confessed he was semi-illiterate
 
AVB: I always believed I could turn it around at Tottenham, despite poor start

Andre Villas-Boas never doubted he would turn around Tottenham's season after their poor start.

Many were shocked this summer when Spurs chairman Daniel Levy sacked Harry Redknapp and replaced him with Villas-Boas, who had just endured a torrid eight-month spell in charge of Chelsea.

Villas-Boas' critics were given further ammunition when the 34-year-old's team failed to win any of their opening three games.

Tottenham were booed off after throwing away leads against Norwich and West Brom, but the Portuguese has turned around the club's fortunes in recent weeks, winning three straight league games - the most notable of which came at Manchester United.

Villas-Boas has a history of proving the doubters wrong - he won four trophies in his first season at Porto despite claims he was too inexperienced - and he never thought Spurs' early-season slump would drag on.

'I have never doubted my abilities, I always trusted them,' Villas-Boas said.

'It's funny how things change so dramatically. The Premier League is completely unpredictable. We started the season (badly). We are now fifth from the top.

'You have to perform at this level. This is the early stages in the Premier League.'

Villas-Boas is not a man to rest on his laurels, however. He knows a lot still has to be done to achieve the top-four place Levy demanded of him when he signed a three-year contract at White Hart Lane in July.

After last weekend's memorable win at Old Trafford, Tottenham's lack of ruthlessness reared its head again on Thursday night when they dominated their Europa League game against Panathinaikos but only came away with a point after the Greek hosts scored a late equaliser.

The Spurs boss has been encouraged by his team's improved results in the Barclays Premier League, but he now wants them to maintain their push for Champions League qualification by beating Aston Villa on Sunday and Chelsea the following weekend.

'We want to cement our position at the top because we understand that being at the top can drive our ambitions upwards,' Villas-Boas said.

'We have won three (league) games on the trot. Now we go into two difficult home games.

'We understand we made history by winning at Old Trafford, but if we want to take that step forward, we have to win the next couple of fixtures.'

Although Villas-Boas has overseen the departures of Luka Modric and Rafael van der Vaart - two of Redknapp's key players - he is still benefiting from his predecessor's policies.

Many had criticised Redknapp for not putting faith in young players during his time at White Hart Lane, with the likes of Kyle Walker, Kyle Naughton and Steven Caulker forced to go out on loan before earning their crack at first-team football.

All three players have played well under Villas-Boas, and Walker, who went on loan to Villa the season before last, is now arguably England's first-choice right back.

Villas-Boas thinks Redknapp's loan policy has given those three players the confidence to play well this season.

'I think (Walker) has benefited from going on loan and getting that playing time," the Spurs manager said.

'He has come back stronger, full of ambition. He embraced it, as did Naughton and Caulker.

'We are living at the moment with the benefit from those kind of solutions. It's something we look carefully at.'

Villas-Boas is expected to recall 41-year-old goalkeeper Brad Friedel for the game against his former club despite a relatively solid performance from France captain Hugo Lloris against Panathinaikos.

Striker Emmanuel Adebayor is available after recovering from a hamstring injury, but Villas-Boas is likely to stick with Jermain Defoe - on his 30th birthday - as his lone striker.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2213778/Andre-Villas-Boas-I-believed-I-turn-Tottenham.html
 
One thing you can say about HR is that his loan policy worked. I am just a wee bit concerned that AVB is thinking 2 games ahead when one of those games is in 2 weeks time. I hope his thoughts are fully focused on today.
Mind you, I can't wait for Chelsea, myself. The juiciest game of the season.
 
onlyme said:
One thing you can say about HR is that his loan policy worked. I am just a wee bit concerned that AVB is thinking 2 games ahead when one of those games is in 2 weeks time. I hope his thoughts are fully focused on today.
Mind you, I can't wait for Chelsea, myself. The juiciest game of the season.
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he is thinking that Villa at home is a "must win" so that we will be fully prepped for chelsea.
i like that he is thinking further ahead, rotating players so that we get more players ready to contribute.
 
AVB, the players and fans are going to be so up for it in two weeks! AVB will feel he has a point to prove to Chelsea, and we will have a chance to get one back on them after they mugged us for a CL place.
 
I know statistically speaking he has had a great start but we have also had a fairly easy start (apart from Manure away) the games we have played you would have expected us to have done well in and actually should have done better - WBA/Norwich springs to mind.

People used to go on about the whole why cant we beat the big boys away - well would you rather have had six points from WBA/Norwich and lose Manure away or two points from both games and beat Manure away (five points)... I know what I would rather have.


Anyways just a point
 
DHSF said:
I know statistically speaking he has had a great start but we have also had a fairly easy start (apart from Manure away) the games we have played you would have expected us to have done well in and actually should have done better - WBA/Norwich springs to mind.

People used to go on about the whole why cant we beat the big boys away - well would you rather have had six points from WBA/Norwich and lose Manure away or two points from both games and beat Manure away (five points)... I know what I would rather have.


Anyways just a point
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We've had easy starts before under plenty of different managers and still managed to balls thing up.

AVB hasn't.
 
THFC6061 said:
We've had easy starts before under plenty of different managers and still managed to balls thing up.

AVB hasn't.
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Thats very true but then did we have the players of the same calibre and quality as we do now?

Statistics obviously dont tell the whole story and Im not complaining about the start in terms of results (although performances we are improving) just playing devils advocate
 
DHSF said:
Thats very true but then did we have the players of the same calibre and quality as we do now?
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Without our 3 best players, 2 we sold, 1 retired and without Parker, BAE and Kaboul all out injured, AVB has done fudging ace
 
DHSF said:
I know statistically speaking he has had a great start but we have also had a fairly easy start (apart from Manure away) the games we have played you would have expected us to have done well in and actually should have done better - WBA/Norwich springs to mind.

People used to go on about the whole why cant we beat the big boys away - well would you rather have had six points from WBA/Norwich and lose Manure away or two points from both games and beat Manure away (five points)... I know what I would rather have.


Anyways just a point
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I know the start has not been that hard but a new manager who is playing a different system without 3 key players from last season who have been sold (modric vdv king retired not sold) parker, adebayor, kaboul and now ekotto injured. A man who the press hate, yep i would say im impressed he has got us as many points on the table as he has.

Im not impressed with the style of football yet but that will come in time and also one thing i had against redknapp is a lack of tactics. Do not think we should have been playing two defensive midfielders against west brom and norwich but i like that he is prepared to try different things and seems to make plans for games, instead of telling people to "just run about a bit"

AVB will need time but im prepared to give him it because we do not have the money to just go out and buy the best players so we have to do it differently and be a bit clever, even if i was not a spurs fan i would be willing us to succed like i am everton and Saudi Sportswashing Machine.
 
Hotdoggspur said:
I'll pm you about the location and time is it that important , I thought the content of my convo was more important . You could be a journalist etc
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= Basically none of the above happened, and you are full of brick!
Been a few days since I asked you to PM me, heard nothing. If you were proper you would have been all too pleased to prove your credentials, seeing as you were quick to state the info concerning this so called rift..
 
When people talk about 2 defensive midfielders at home to Norwich and WBA, and say it's defensive, I don't think that's right. It just comes down to how you use your players in those games. For instance now we have Dembele, he will be breaking forward often and one of the full backs (Walker was back a lot more today than Vertoghen) will probably stay back more. But when it was Livermore with Sandro, the full backs were probably expected to be both pushing up a lot more with the 2 man base as cover.

What I'm trying to say is that it doesn't necessarily have to mean it is defensive if those are the players in the team.

He's made a good start too, fairly easy games but in actual fact there are no easy games in the PL. Villa came to frustrate today and we managed to create a lot of chances. And we've won at OT. With all the injuries to key players, new ones settling in, new training methods, new tactics, new ways of working. All things considered he's clearly doing a very good job.
 
The boy is doing just fine. No point looking back or forward. AVB is the man with the ability to take us to the next level.
 
thfcsteff said:
I don't like Lewis any more than any of them. He's sneaky. Long may the revisionism and u-turns continue. Slags the lot of 'em.
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I listen to Darren Lewis on a regular basis on the radio and he has been very fair to Spurs and AVB all season, Fact
 
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