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the Tim Sherwood man love thread

Captain rent-a-quote strikes again

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31560185

Tottenham are benefitting from the legacy of young talent he left at White Hart Lane, says new Aston Villa manager Tim Sherwood.

Sherwood, 46, was Spurs manager for 28 matches last season after joining the club's coaching staff in 2008.

And he feels boss Mauricio Pochettino is reaping the rewards of the work he did with young players like Harry Kane.

Sherwood said: "He's inherited a good bunch of young players who were developed by myself."

Kane, 21, is being tipped for a full England call-up by national team coach Roy Hodgson for next month's fixtures against Lithuania and Italy after scoring 23 times this season.

But Sherwood feels Kane's progress would not have been so impressive if he had followed the club's wishes to loan the striker out again last January following earlier temporary spells with Leyton Orient, Millwall, Norwich and Leicester.

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Harry Kane has scored five goals in his last three Premier League games

Sherwood, who gave Kane his first Premier League start for Tottenham in April 2014, added: "If I hadn't resisted the club wanting to loan him out last January, he wouldn't be Harry Kane now.

"He had to be very strong mentally, he's had to fight it. They haven't always sung 'He's one of our own'.

"I'd had Harry Kane since he was 11 or 12. It makes a lot of difference, I know them better than their parents as footballers."

Sherwood won 14 of his 28 games in charge of Tottenham but wassacked last May after Spurs finished sixth in the Premier League.

That is also their current position under Pochettino, who moved to White Hart Lane from Southampton last summer.

Sherwood believes the Argentinian is doing a good job with the young talent he has inherited.

He said: "There are a lot of big stars and he could have discarded Ryan Mason and gone with Nabil Bentaleb. He's not done that - so fair play to him.

"I respect him for that. It's good for me. I left a bit of a legacy there with those young players and he's carried it on."

Sherwood will take charge of his first game as Villa manager when they host Stoke on Saturday. His new club are currently third from bottom of the Premier League.
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Just waiting for Jamie Redknapp to pick up on Sherwood's quotes there and run with it....

'I think Tim did a triffic job at Spurs, he's going to be a top, top manager, you know that the foundation for Pochettino's success was Tim. He's a top lad."
 
What a total, utter bellend! The ONE thing I hoped he wouldn't do and he has done it in style! tacottt! It almost makes me want them to go down, but I won't write a club off on one bad seed.
 
So let me get this right.

Sherwood says he "he had Harry since he was 11 or 12".

Sherwood joined our coaching staff in 2008, when Harry was hired, right.

How old is Kane; 21 right?

So what's with the Maths?

Or should this be filed with: "I saw Eriksen at Wembley" or "When I managed against Benteke"?
 
Sherwood is a plank of the highest order. I can only assume he learned at the feet of Redknapp that as long as you have the media onside you can dish out as much rotten tripe as you like, without worrying about anyone fact checking.
 
Was just about to post the same stinkfoot.

There are not many managers that are successful by alienating other managers - they seem to have good relationshios and mutual respect.
Maybe a bit of experience would be useful, eh Tim.
 
galeforce said:
I think steff has a valid point, he wasn't sacked because of results, he was sacked for his public persona, it's a reasonable expectation that he would have learned from that
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I don't think he was ever really the new permanent manager. I think Levy's choices were tied up until the summer, so Sherwood got the label because Levy didn't want a long caretaker period, like with Pleat. If he was to get the job permanently, Sherwood had to do something exceptional. He probably knew that but still hoped he could, leading to some of his comments from frustration.

I also think his biggest problem with the fans was the prospect of him as permanent manager. We wanted something new and shiny, not someone untested. We hoped he was indeed just temporary, but feared he was the future. His comments and personality just fuelled our existing frustration about the situation. Let's face it, he has nothing on LVG in the ridiculous comment department. I suspect if Sherwood had been just caretaker, many of us would feel better about him and his tenure. As de facto caretaker he did a good job.

P.S. I thought his recent comment about being headmaster now at Villa was reasonably witty given the earlier supply teacher comments.
 
Well I have to admit if I was a villa fan I would be starting to get really cheesed off with how much he seems to love talking about us, our players.

good luck Tim (except against us) but for heavens sake stop banging on about us...in case you had not noticed you have one hell of a job in front of you....focus on that me ol mucker!!!! theres a good lad.
 
His post-match interview was a real charmer too...he will certainly win plenty of friends in the dressing room...before anyone starts to apologize for him, let me take the opportunity to once again point out this guy's M.O. It is. About. Him! HE thought it was a poor match to watch. HE distanced himself from what happened on the pitch. HE said people don't want to watch 'poor' games of football like that. HE never ONCE put himself and the team in the same sentence/expression. HE isolated himself from the club. HE said NOTHING positive about his players (that was quoted anyway). I feel like I am trolling him, but by christ he makes it easy!!!!! I am trying to be a better man, wish him luck and all that, but I cannot help myself, his Captain Bellend interviews push the worst out of me...
 
I do not hate him like some, the football was an improvement on the previous idiot, but what puts me off about him is the way he talks. The latest thing of trying to take credit for everything at Tottenham really tinkles me off. He had an involvement with our youth players for sure. But saying Kane would not be the player he is if it were not for him is disgusting and offensive to both Kane and the other coaches at Tottenham.

If only he could learn to keep his trap shut he would receive so much more goodwill from people.
 
thfcsteff said:
His post-match interview was a real charmer too...he will certainly win plenty of friends in the dressing room...before anyone starts to apologize for him, let me take the opportunity to once again point out this guy's M.O. It is. About. Him! HE thought it was a poor match to watch. HE distanced himself from what happened on the pitch. HE said people don't want to watch 'poor' games of football like that. HE never ONCE put himself and the team in the same sentence/expression. HE isolated himself from the club. HE said NOTHING positive about his players (that was quoted anyway). I feel like I am trolling him, but by christ he makes it easy!!!!! I am trying to be a better man, wish him luck and all that, but I cannot help myself, his Captain Bellend interviews push the worst out of me...
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99.9% of managers refuse to personally take responsibility for bad results/performances.
 
Just saw MOTD. Loved him walking off at the end of the game, head down, hands in pockets, bottom lip almost quivering. Reminded me of this !

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