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Tim Sherwood…gone \o/

Do you want Tim Sherwood to stay as manager?

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Re: Tim Sherwood - Head Coach

greatwhitenorf said:
I wouldn't be gutted if Sherwood stayed. The back four needs work, but Kaboul will be healthier. Him, Walker and Vertonghen and a proper LB and there's a good start. Plus a chance to get everyone on the same page from the start of a season.

Also, gotta love the fact that every post-match managerial interview or training ground media chat is delivered with a proper ****ney accent. Somehow, that just sounds so right with Spurs.

Maybe his strongest endorsement comes from having introduced two players whom AVB would have totally buried - Bentaleb and Kane. Both are a lock to be in the core group for next season. If Kane keeps this scoring pace up, he's going to have a bearing on how the striker position gets dealt with going forward. At the worst, Bentaleb is on the bench every game. Bottom line is, Sherwood has freed up a swack of dough for Levy to use for other purposes. How Levy can't respect that is beyond me.
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I don't think he introduced those players because he's Timmeh or some particular skill he has, I think he introduced them because he was previously Loans to Swindon Manager.

I suspect most people involved with that setup and promoted to first team coach would have done the same.
 
Re: Tim Sherwood - Head Coach

He is trying to prove a point.. bring in kids. devalue the adults. 2 fingers to Levy
 
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If Levy was that mortified, he'd have whacked him straight away. Called in the Centuwions to thwow him to the fwoor and tweat him woughwy. Sherwood's still at the helm and on course to tie the club's highest-ever point total. After all the chaos of this season, that's a decent result.

Not sure Spurs are going to get in a better manager anytime soon. Van Gaal is top two choice for Man U, along with Klopp. It'll still be a circus over there, not sure Klopp needs that cr@p right now. Van Gaal would glory in it.

Doubt Ancelotti would take Spurs on. Six months lounging in Capri would come first. Pochettino might be happy to carry on at Southampton where his reputation is building nicely. Levy might be hard pressed to find better.
 
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Re: Tim Sherwood - Head Coach

scaramanga said:
I don't think he introduced those players because he's Timmeh or some particular skill he has, I think he introduced them because he was previously Loans to Swindon Manager.

I suspect most people involved with that setup and promoted to first team coach would have done the same.
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For some, the bigger temptation might have been to go with the flow and work with all the players that big money was spent on. Kane and Bentaleb were gutsy calls. Re-instating Adebayor at once was a gutsy call. Say what you want about Sherwood's tactics - he's got balls. I think the players respect that quite a bit and are still willing to play hard for him as the season winds down.
 
Re: Tim Sherwood - Head Coach

greatwhitenorf said:
If Levy was that mortified, he'd have whacked him straight away. Called in the Centuwions to thwow him to the fwoor and tweat him woughwy. Sherwood's still at the helm and on course to tie the club's highest-ever point total. After all the chaos of this season, that's a decent result.

Not sure Spurs are going to get in a better manager anytime soon. Van Gaal is top two choice for Man U, along with Klopp. It'll still be a circus over there, not sure Klopp needs that cr@p right now. Van Gaal would glory in it.

Doubt Ancelotti would take Spurs on. Six months lounging in Capri would come first. Pochettino might be happy to carry on at Southampton where his reputation is building nicely. Levy might be hard pressed to find better.
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No way he would have got rid then, he would be a laughing stock considering the number of times he has changed coaches.
 
Re: Tim Sherwood - Head Coach

greatwhitenorf said:
For some, the bigger temptation might have been to go with the flow and work with all the players that big money was spent on. Kane and Bentaleb were gutsy calls. Re-instating Adebayor at once was a gutsy call. Say what you want about Sherwood's tactics - he's got balls. I think the players respect that quite a bit and are still willing to play hard for him as the season winds down.
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I'm not sure how much it takes in the way of balls to stick with what you know rather than learn new tricks.

I'm also not sure where the line between "manager with balls" and "arrogant dingdong" stands, but I'm pretty sure I know which side of it Timmeh lands.
 
Re: Tim Sherwood - Head Coach

greatwhitenorf said:
The result is a manager with a more direct approach in everything he does. He doesn't hold back what he thinks or feels and I don't think he has a taste for bullsh!t. I think the media absolutely love this. It's a refreshing break from the oblique utterances and mystic mumbo-jumbo that we hear from coaches for whom English is a second language. I say that fully acknowledging my enjoyment of phrases like 'immense dimensionality' and 'solidification'.
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A "very expressive" post, though I feel you could have slotted in the use of the noun "transition" as a verb, mention of being in a "good/bad moment" and maybe something about wanting our players to think outside of the box but tackle inside it.

Perhaps Sherwood could do a Pochettino and get a translator, only in Sherwood's case the translator would convert honesty into dissembling.
 
Re: Tim Sherwood - Head Coach

Holy c-rap. Just noticed (at the time of writing) that I have achieved Guy Butters status.

The Caulker of his day, but at least he wasn't Alton Thelwell.
 
Re: Tim Sherwood - Head Coach

greatwhitenorf said:
For some, the bigger temptation might have been to go with the flow and work with all the players that big money was spent on. Kane and Bentaleb were gutsy calls. Re-instating Adebayor at once was a gutsy call. Say what you want about Sherwood's tactics - he's got balls. I think the players respect that quite a bit and are still willing to play hard for him as the season winds down.
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I wouldn't consider it that gutsy to start playing Ade. Ade has shown throughout his career that he only decides to turn up when he's got a point to prove. To that extent, AVB had done all the motivation for Sherwood that he needed. If both Sherwood and Ade are here next season I would be shocked to see Adebayor performing like he is at the moment.

This isn't a sleight at Sherwood by the way, more focusing on Adebayors chronic unreliabilty
 
Re: Tim Sherwood - Head Coach

Superhudd said:
He is trying to prove a point.. bring in kids. devalue the adults. 2 fingers to Levy
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I'm not so sure. His team selections to me seem to be game by game who has impressed most in training/previous games. He appears not to be swayed by the "big name so must play" attitude that many managers suffer from. Unfortunately he doesn't have the sense to avoid making negative comments about player performance to the press, but then again if it means that players comes out in subsequent games trying to prove TS wrong then it may actually be a positive.
 
Re: Tim Sherwood - Head Coach

greatwhitenorf said:
I wouldn't be gutted if Sherwood stayed. The back four needs work, but Kaboul will be healthier. Him, Walker and Vertonghen and a proper LB and there's a good start. Plus a chance to get everyone on the same page from the start of a season.

Also, gotta love the fact that every post-match managerial interview or training ground media chat is delivered with a proper ****ney accent. Somehow, that just sounds so right with Spurs.

Maybe his strongest endorsement comes from having introduced two players whom AVB would have totally buried - Bentaleb and Kane. Both are a lock to be in the core group for next season. If Kane keeps this scoring pace up, he's going to have a bearing on how the striker position gets dealt with going forward. At the worst, Bentaleb is on the bench every game. Bottom line is, Sherwood has freed up a swack of dough for Levy to use for other purposes. How Levy can't respect that is beyond me.
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Completely false.

Kane made 6 appearances before being injured earlier this season and even made a cameo against Saudi Sportswashing Machine at the start of last season before going on loan to Norwich and Leicester.

Bentaleb was an unused sub for one game under AVB, so it's not like he didn't know he existed, but it's only natural that the other senior players was given a chance to bed in first.
 
Re: Tim Sherwood - Head Coach

Jordinho said:
Completely false.

Kane made 6 appearances before being injured earlier this season and even made a cameo against Saudi Sportswashing Machine at the start of last season before going on loan to Norwich and Leicester.

Bentaleb was an unused sub for one game under AVB, so it's not like he didn't know he existed, but it's only natural that the other senior players was given a chance to bed in first.
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Disagree about Bentaleb.

AVB's decision to not even play Bentaleb in EL group stage games when we had already qualified for the play off will forever sound like incompetence rather than sound prioritization of senior players to me I think.
 
Re: Tim Sherwood - Head Coach

just heard on the radio that apparently TS was asked about the phrase that "spurs had sold Elvis and signed the Beatles", to which he responded "Spurs had sold Elvis and signed The monkees" ..............dont know if this is true or not, but i wouldnt be surprised
 
Re: Tim Sherwood - Head Coach

scaramanga said:
I don't think he introduced those players because he's Timmeh or some particular skill he has, I think he introduced them because he was previously Loans to Swindon Manager.

I suspect most people involved with that setup and promoted to first team coach would have done the same.
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But neither of those have been to Swindon in the past......
 
Re: Tim Sherwood - Head Coach

Sherwood's reaction to news that Moyes has been sacked and odds are that LVG will replace him...

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