Thought this was the Tim Sherwood thread.
Just saying.
fabulous post
I think we're allowed to continuously bring up our past manager on every thread now...it's now ok AS.
We have 8 games left now.
What do people think needs to happen in those games in terms of results, gameplay etc for TS to keep his job into next season?
he'll need the overwhelming support of the players more than the results i think.
the players will be happy when we win - so its a catch 22.
I think they were to offer a strong challenge for top 4, with understandable minimum achievement being 6th and upwards.
I think they fully expected a rocky start while new signings bedded in, but that the team would come on stronger in the 2nd half of the season.
I don't think they demanded top 4. You'd have to be a fool to do that given:
*Our rebuilding job carried out in the summer
*Strength of City & Chelsea
*Man U defending champions
*Arsenal just very consistent top 4 finishes under Wenger and with large financial clout now stadium is paid off
*Clearly resurgent Liverpool who had pretty much been performing title-winning form in the 2nd half of the season before
What Levy & Lewis didn't expect:
*Big money investments to be marginalised/side-lined from the beginning (Lamela, Eriksen, Ade)
*Complete inability to create chances or goals
*Turgid, uninspiring football, especially at home, with no signs of improvements
*Total team collapses, such as 0-3 v West Ham, 6-0 v City, 0-5 v Liverpool
*Fallings out with back room staff, medical staff and technical director
We have 8 games left now.
What do people think needs to happen in those games in terms of results, gameplay etc for TS to keep his job into next season?
Less ******** spouted in the media might be a start. Not sure if he's trying to achieve something and failing or if he just fails to engage his brain.
There's still a bit of me that hopes he's been shifted a safe distance from the team.
Pretending it hasn't happened makes sense all round - Levy doesn't appear to sack two managers in a season and YTS gets to go job hunting in the summer pretending he didn't get sacked from a caretaker role.
With the circus Sherwood has managed to create around himself, who would want him?
I think he's got a pretty good chance as long as we win most of the easier games we have towards the end of that run.
He seems to be someone that understands the type of players the club needs to bring in and the restrictions the club will have because he is so close to Levy, so he's very much into the youth players / signings with potential and making that work. It all depends on how well LvG convinces Levy that he is also up for that kind of management. I think if LvG comes in for 2-3 years while Sherwood becomes Technical Director and then takes the reigns after learning in a more pressure-free environment then it will work out for the club. We need someone that can work in the way Levy wants if we are ever going to get stability. No more experiments with big name managers thinking they are magicians that have all the answers.
There's a bit more the LVG story than that. Levy was in his house for starters and he name drops us in every other interview. It might not happen but he's odds on to take over if Moyes stays put.I genuinely think that Sherwood has more of a chance keeping his job beoynd this season than most care to think, and there has nothing to suggest otherwise. LVG has come out and said he'd like to manage in the PL and most on here have taken that is means Tim is a dead man walking:lol:
There's a bit more the LVG story than that. Levy was in his house for starters and he name drops us in every other interview. It might not happen but he's odds on to take over if Moyes stays put.
Well I am watching the second greatest Premier League manager ever, with a team full of winners, getting pumped 4-0 at half time at Stamford Bridge.
Where is the technique, why are they just giving the ball away, where is the passion, where is the organisation?
They got pumped 4-0 at half time by Liverpool too.
You guys need to realise that sometimes you can't just blame the manager.
Sherwood does not come across well in interviews, he needs a lot of media training to say the least.
But a lot of our losses are down to huge player errors.
Remember Vertonghen fell over to gift Cheat$ki the win against us?
Remember Vertonghen and Lloris against City when Navas scored after 1 minute?
Remember against **** when we were wide open and Rosicky scored after 1 minute?
All of those are clearly Sherwood's fault, right?
I'm not his biggest fan, but try supporting him for a few games, see what happens.
By the look of things he already has it, then again you'd be stupid not to support your manager when in a squad with that much talent, try toe the line or not support him and he'll just say strength in depth every time your dropped.