Re: Tim Sherwood - Head Coach
What a conundrum Tim Sherwood is!!! Many things he says are perfectly spot on ... "Homegrown players at Liverpool are embraced," he said. "They love homegrown players at Liverpool Football Club. Tottenham fans like signings. " "I only play young players who are good enough and at the moment there are two players playing better than Andros, in my opinion."
You cannot argue with those statements but they are simply not something anyone with a bit of grey matter would say publicly. All it does is rub people the wrong way. I actually think he could make a really good manager in a few year's time once he feels he is secure in a manager's role and not simply keeping the seat warm for someone else. However this will only happen if he changes his brash attitude - something which will not be easy considering it is exactly the same attitude he showed as a player - and actually understand his role is as much influencing behaviour as it is putting the right 11 players on a pitch.
"I'm getting the vibe that the players think don't they have to play for their club before they go on World Cup duty," Well, that's what you're there for, macaron! To motivate them, to make them want to do well for the club!!! If - by your own admission - you cannot do it, you should have no complaints come next summer.
You can argue with those statements. Especially the Liverpool one. I'm sorry, he's an idiot.
Liverpool 'like homegrown players'…what? Like Suarez, Mignolet, Henderson, Johnson, Sturridge, Skrtel, Agger, Lucas, Allen, Countinho? Give me a break!!!! Gerrard? There's one. Flannagan? There's two. Sterling? Nope. From QPR.
And it gets worse if you look back in their recent history, because Torres, Reina, Carroll, Downing, Keane, etc, etc, are not homegrown at all. THey are big money and Liverpool have been massive spenders over the last decade to little effect. Who have their outrageously supported youth products been I wonder?
Don't fall for his inveterate tripe. He is merely pimping youth players he has had a hand (thanks to Alex Inglethorpe for the hard work BTW) in developing.
Bentaleb? No argument, fine player? Kane? Highly rated at the club pre-Sherwood. Townsend (who funnily enough -as you mentioned- now cannot get a game under Sherwood) was given his full-papers by AVB in the end of it all.
Sherwood is now just showering press conferences with blustery garbage…it's embarrassing and it reminds me of someone else, although he was never quite this obvious.