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AVB Press Conference
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BrainOfLevy
Michael Carrick
You're going a bit over the top with your view that players don't need to be signed to fit into a manager's tactics. They clearly do.
It's actually Rodgers who utilises the sweeper-keeper in his formation - don't think it's a must for AVB though
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indianspur
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or after a few days training he has realised we have enough quality already at the club and the 13 mill that would be spent on Lloris can in fact be redirected to other areas of the squad that need strengthening
Kingdawson
Banned
My point is that "Sweeper keeper" is not a tactic. Ok put it this way if we make no attempts to sign a genuine first choice GK this summer i assume you'd hold your hands up and say your statement just now is wrong right?
Your simplistic viewpoint is just one of a number of possible simplistic viewpoints. There are multiple possible explanations for why Spurs might be interested in signing Lloris this summer.
And until we've heard the precise wording of both the question asked of AVB and the answer he gave, I wouldn't go putting money on Spurs not being in for Lloris quite yet.
Sweeper keeper is not a tactic - it's an attribute of a keeper who fits into a certain formation / gameplay - i.e. #9 focal point into a 4-5-1
Spursalot
Jimmy McCormick
Spursalot
Jimmy McCormick
Sweeper keeper is as much a 'tactic' as a deep lying playmaker, a trequista or any of those other sub-positions.
Leeds Spur
Banned
Tottenham's new manager Andre Villas-Boas today spoke for the first time of his aborted reign at Chelsea, insisting failure there was not of his own doing, and of his own ambitions at White Hart Lane which include winning a first Premier League title.
Villas-Boas, the 34-year-old from Portugal who led Porto to their national title and the Europa League before joining Chelsea at the start of last season, was in combative mood at Spurs’ new state-of-the-art training ground near Enfield.
Villas-Boas insisted he had nothing to prove at Tottenham after being sacked by Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich four months ago.
He said: “I cannot assume that failure on my own. It was never a one person failure. I will never take it like that. There were mistakes I made, which I have learned from, but the decision to terminate the project was not mine, it was the decision of the owner of Chelsea.
“For Chelsea to have won the FA Cup and the Champions League means they were still present in those competitions by that time [when Villas-Boas departed]. It means Chelsea were ever present in those competitions and in the Premier League as well.
“The owner’s decision? I respect to the fullest but I never accepted it.
“I move on from that, I’m very honoured that I was able to put that team together. You can say that part of what they achieved is also down to that squad being put together by myself.
“What was done after I left is down to the work of Roberto di Matteo and the work of the magnificent players. They achieved it on their own. But it is never a one-man failure when you work with so many diverse things in a football club.”
Villas-Boas was struggling with a sore throat, perhaps the result of an atrocious English summer which continued this afternoon with heavy rain beating like a drum on the roof of the futuristic indoor training facility that Spurs players will enjoy when it opens next month.
Villas-Boas went on: “I’m not a mission to restore my reputation. It is a mission to put Tottenham back on track with titles.
“Since 2008 we haven’t won anything and I think it is right that we take the club forward. And taking the club forward is mixing it with titles and with success. Hopefully, I can bring those to this football club.”
That success will haver to be achieved without Liverpool and England striker Andy Carroll with Villas-Boas dismissing reports that he was interested in the player. He also denied being close to signing France No1 Hugo Lloris from Lyon. But he insisted Luka Modric was part of his plans although discussions over the midfielder’s future were in the hands of chairman Daniel Levy.
As for his ambitions with Spurs Villas-Boas said: “We have to continue with the quality Harry Redknapp left. That is very important. To lose what Harry left us with would be a mistake, so we have to build on that to put Tottenham on the road for titles.
“I think last year was the first year that we saw Tottenham so openly speak in public about the title, and that is where we want to go.
“I think we have to understand that Champions League football is a big importance for this club, we have to accept that that is our responsibility. But we want to assume further responsibility by going one step further and winning something for the club.”
http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foo...hat-it-all-went-wrong-at-chelsea-7936043.html
Fair reporting from The Standard
Villas-Boas, the 34-year-old from Portugal who led Porto to their national title and the Europa League before joining Chelsea at the start of last season, was in combative mood at Spurs’ new state-of-the-art training ground near Enfield.
Villas-Boas insisted he had nothing to prove at Tottenham after being sacked by Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich four months ago.
He said: “I cannot assume that failure on my own. It was never a one person failure. I will never take it like that. There were mistakes I made, which I have learned from, but the decision to terminate the project was not mine, it was the decision of the owner of Chelsea.
“For Chelsea to have won the FA Cup and the Champions League means they were still present in those competitions by that time [when Villas-Boas departed]. It means Chelsea were ever present in those competitions and in the Premier League as well.
“The owner’s decision? I respect to the fullest but I never accepted it.
“I move on from that, I’m very honoured that I was able to put that team together. You can say that part of what they achieved is also down to that squad being put together by myself.
“What was done after I left is down to the work of Roberto di Matteo and the work of the magnificent players. They achieved it on their own. But it is never a one-man failure when you work with so many diverse things in a football club.”
Villas-Boas was struggling with a sore throat, perhaps the result of an atrocious English summer which continued this afternoon with heavy rain beating like a drum on the roof of the futuristic indoor training facility that Spurs players will enjoy when it opens next month.
Villas-Boas went on: “I’m not a mission to restore my reputation. It is a mission to put Tottenham back on track with titles.
“Since 2008 we haven’t won anything and I think it is right that we take the club forward. And taking the club forward is mixing it with titles and with success. Hopefully, I can bring those to this football club.”
That success will haver to be achieved without Liverpool and England striker Andy Carroll with Villas-Boas dismissing reports that he was interested in the player. He also denied being close to signing France No1 Hugo Lloris from Lyon. But he insisted Luka Modric was part of his plans although discussions over the midfielder’s future were in the hands of chairman Daniel Levy.
As for his ambitions with Spurs Villas-Boas said: “We have to continue with the quality Harry Redknapp left. That is very important. To lose what Harry left us with would be a mistake, so we have to build on that to put Tottenham on the road for titles.
“I think last year was the first year that we saw Tottenham so openly speak in public about the title, and that is where we want to go.
“I think we have to understand that Champions League football is a big importance for this club, we have to accept that that is our responsibility. But we want to assume further responsibility by going one step further and winning something for the club.”
http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foo...hat-it-all-went-wrong-at-chelsea-7936043.html
Fair reporting from The Standard
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indianspur
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i was thinking like you at first, but then i heard that he gave very honest answers about Adebayor, Modric, and Moutinho, so to dismiss Lloris as a potential signing seems quite strange if in fact we are very interested in him.
another possibility is that Lloris is proving to be too expensive and AVB has his eye on someone else like Butland who in fact was mentioned as one of his main targets when he first took the job
Johnny Ray
Øyvind Leonhardsen
I just wonder, if he fancies giving Gomes a shot.
He can almost try to see if Gomes can regain form and fit into the 'sweeper keeper' thing everyone is going on about (yes, I know he looks scared of the ball!)
At least, he can try give it a go, and if not, then he's always got Brad to get us through this season.
He can almost try to see if Gomes can regain form and fit into the 'sweeper keeper' thing everyone is going on about (yes, I know he looks scared of the ball!)
At least, he can try give it a go, and if not, then he's always got Brad to get us through this season.
Kingdawson
Banned
Ok well i don't think it's that either. It's an attribute of a GK that likes to come off his line and distribute the ball quickly? yes ok i can accept that but i do not accept the part about it fitting into a certain formation/gameplay and then you comparing it to a lone striker in a 4-5-1. It's not even close to being half as important to that and i do not think a manager considers it as important as some of you are making out.
Anyway we'll see if AVB signs a GK.
Kingdawson
Banned
It really isn't but whatever lets just leave it.
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indianspur
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As for his ambitions with Spurs Villas-Boas said: “We have to continue with the quality Harry Redknapp left. That is very important. To lose what Harry left us with would be a mistake, so we have to build on that to put Tottenham on the road for titles.
“I think last year was the first year that we saw Tottenham so openly speak in public about the title, and that is where we want to go.
“I think we have to understand that Champions League football is a big importance for this club, we have to accept that that is our responsibility. But we want to assume further responsibility by going one step further and winning something for the club.”
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“I think last year was the first year that we saw Tottenham so openly speak in public about the title, and that is where we want to go.
“I think we have to understand that Champions League football is a big importance for this club, we have to accept that that is our responsibility. But we want to assume further responsibility by going one step further and winning something for the club.”
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BrainOfLevy
Michael Carrick
Yeah of course I would, no problems there.
It's not a tactic. It's a player type. Just like having an anchorman or a deep lying midfielder, etc etc. Would you be saying that a tactic that works with width doesn't need pacey wingers? Why is a goalkeeper position excempt from needing the right type of player?
Leeds Spur
Banned
Could just be a case of negotiations for Lloris being far more sensitive / uncertain / in the balance than the negotiations for Adebayor and Moutinho.