Tim Sherwood…gone \o/

[Superted]

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We are in the FA Cup, the league and the Europa Cup, how can you justify our squad is too big?

So your saying it can never be too big?

Compare it to Arsenal, Man U who arguably need a bigger squad.

 

[NaijaSpurs]

Re: Tim Sherwood -Your Manager! 18 month contract confirmed!

I gotta say I am scarely optimistic about this appointment, so I am going to ride the wave, at least until the bubble bursts

 

[Pirate55]

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You know one thing i really liked from Sherwood's interview after the Southampton game? He openly admitted how poor we were in the first half (even though we were not that poor imo). AVB would have spun it and informed us that we did well by using stats and possession count to validate his argument. It was very refreshing to hear.

+1.

Doesn't lack confidence does he !

 

[The Portugeezer]

Re: Tim Sherwood -Your Manager! 18 month contract confirmed!

Tim Sherwood has indicated that Etienne Capoue and Lewis Holtby are not in his Tottenham Hotspur first-team plans by allowing them to turn out for the club's Under-21 side in the middle of the busy festive period.

Sherwood has been named permanent manager at White Hart Lane after overseeing a 3-2 victory over Southampton this weekend, having previously been put in caretaker charge following the sacking of Andre Villas-Boas.

Despite fellow midfielders Sandro and Paulinho being unavailable, Capoue and Holtby were unused substitutes at St Mary's Stadium, with Sherwood opting to hand 19-year-old rookie Nabil Bentaleb a Premier League debut when Moussa Dembele was forced off injured.

It also appears unlikely that either player will start in the Boxing Day clash with West Bromwich Albion, having featured for 45 minutes for Tottenham's youth team in a 2-2 draw with Brighton & Hove Albion Under-21s on Monday.

French international Capoue was one of Spurs's seven summer signings, having joined the Lillywhites in an £8.6m deal from Toulouse, and had impressed in his initial outings before being sidelined for two months with a knee injury.

Holtby was in and out of Villas-Boas's starting lineup, and has made 11 top-flight appearances this season, but has failed to establish himself in the Tottenham first XI since arriving in a £2.5m switch from Bundesliga outfit Schalke last January.

Journo Greg Stobart backs this up...

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[milo]

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https://twitter.com/gstobart

This the journalist that apparently has a link with the club (potentially Sherwood if what people have been saying is true....?)

A few interesting insights if so

Interesting

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and most importantly

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[Pirate55]

Re: Tim Sherwood -Your Manager! 18 month contract confirmed!

He just needs to win. How he does that is up to him to discover.

Agreed. But he has made a good start IMO

 

[Rossi22]

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Who is Long?

Not a euphemism by the way.

 

[NaijaSpurs]

Re: Tim Sherwood -Your Manager! 18 month contract confirmed!

So your saying it can never be too big?

Did I say that? Or are just making stuff up? Go read my comments again

Compare it to Arsenal, Man U who arguably need a bigger squad.

Like Arsenal we are in 3 competitions so you tell me. We named a 25 man squad in August, like we normally do, what is the problem?

 

[DubaiSpur]

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Good luck to you, Full-time Tim. When AVB was appointed, I demanded that he bring the good times that we'd been denied for too long: guts and glory, a stab at the big prizes, win after win after win.

In retrospect, I may have doomed him from the start, putting expectations like that onto his immaculately-dressed frame. So, Full-time Tim, from you I ask only this: honesty in press conferences, dedication to the job you've apparently fought tooth and nail to get, blooding of some of our youth players in as many competitions as you can afford to blood them in, and a bit of free-flowing football now and then. I believe you to be capable of all this, just as I believed Andre to be capable of making us title contenders at long last, so I have confidence that you'll be able to fulfill these modest requirements and bring a bit of life and fun back to the Lane, wherever we eventually finish.

For now,Full-time Tim, you have my full support. Tim Sherwood's Blue and White Army!

 

[Spur of the moment]

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Read my other response, I don't want Hoddle, but he's infinitely more qualified than Sherwood.

Levy is risking his stature within the club with this appointment.

Re the earlier poster about Bill Nic, different time, no media issues, no player egos, no CL demands

Not so sure about that. Seem to recall he had a bit of a run-in with Blanchflower soon after he became manager, dropping him and turning down a transfer request from the Northern Ireland captain. As we know, Danny was eventually restored to the side and the rest, as they say ...

 

[Superhudd]

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The problem with this argument is that a) if we look at most of the other chairmen in the league, Levy is a ****ing saint compared to them and b) Levy cannot be moved on, unless ENIC is moved on. And ENIC now have such a total hold over the club that ENIC and Levy will move only when they want to move.

not true, they will move on when the supporters tell them they must. I believe the value of the club would turn rancid overnight if they decided to ignore the fans. All the fans would have to do is reinact the Sol Campbell antics and it would be the end of Enic. That and send spooky to sit by Levy's pond in the back garden.

 

[Nigeyman]

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Good luck to you, Full-time Tim. When AVB was appointed, I demanded that he bring the good times that we'd been denied for too long: guts and glory, a stab at the big prizes, win after win after win.

In retrospect, I may have doomed him from the start, putting expectations like that onto his immaculately-dressed frame. So, Full-time Tim, from you I ask only this: honesty in press conferences, dedication to the job you've apparently fought tooth and nail to get, blooding of some of our youth players in as many competitions as you can afford to blood them in, and a bit of free-flowing football now and then. I believe you to be capable of all this, just as I believed Andre to be capable of making us title contenders at long last, so I have confidence that you'll be able to fulfill these modest requirements and bring a bit of life and fun back to the Lane, wherever we eventually finish.

For now,Full-time Tim, you have my full support. Tim Sherwood's Blue and White Army!

yes yes yes........I am strapping myself in tight baby.......I reckon we are in for one hell of a ride!!!!

you mirror my thoughts buddy!!! its sexo es vida time at the lane.................I hope

 

[The Portugeezer]

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not true, they will move on when the supporters tell them they must. I believe the value of the club would turn rancid overnight if they decided to ignore the fans. All the fans would have to do is reinact the Sol Campbell antics and it would be the end of Enic. That and send spooky to sit by Levy's pond in the back garden.

Speaking of which, wtf happened to him? He was a regular on this board.

 

[Lilywhite]

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Staggering. When the news came up on the ticker I nearly choked.

We're Tottenham Hotspur, sure, not a mega club but certainly the 5th or 6th biggest club in the country. There is absolutely no way on planet earth we should be appointing an absolute rookie at such a pivotal time. It is a joke of a decision made by a joke of a man (Levy), who has been manipulated by Sherwood so blatantly I can't help but be amazed, given how shrewd Levy is meant to be.

Our fans, including myself have dished out thousands of pounds on tickets and season tickets this season yet for over half of it will be watching a side managed by someone with zero experience of managing a first team. Yeah AVB's side was boring as hell but at least there was that glimmer of hope there with him knowing that he had at least completed his ****ing badges!

Our players, many of whom are foreign and cost £10m+, how are they going to react to this? They have no reason to respect Sherwood cos he's achieved **** all. I mean, this guy although he has clearly coached the youths well is the same man who fielded an ineligible player in a NextGen tournament FFS! He just isn't likely to inspire these international footballers is he? (don't tell me he's motivated Adebayor, Adebayor has motived himself cos it's almost time for the transfer window to open).

Yes the football will be attacking but that doesn't mean it'll be fun to watch. Yesterday we were mostly **** against an understrength Southampton side, we barely strung three passes together but won due to a bit of luck and an on form striker doing his job for once. In Sherwood's other game we just got the ball out wide and pinged it in against West Ham hoping for the best before knackering ourselves out and losing to our rivals again.

Liverpool, Arsenal, Emirates Marketing Project, Chelsea, Everton and Man Utd fans will be ****ing loving this. Once again we are a laughing stock. They now have the top six positions wrapped up. There is no way on earth Sherwood will steer us to the top four so don't even mention it. He will just put as many attacking players on the pitch as possible and hope for the best.

The ONLY positive thing I can imagine comes out of this is we'll finally see our youngsters given a chance. But at the expense of loads of players on top dollar after we spent vast amounts on them this summer or the one before or the one before that.

I'll still go to the games and support the team and Sherwood because for me the man to blame is Levy, who has lost the plot.

The journey back to midtable mediocrity begins here boys, hold on tight...

 

[Superted]

Re: Tim Sherwood -Your Manager! 18 month contract confirmed!

Did I say that? Or are just making stuff up? Go read my comments again



Like Arsenal we are in 3 competitions so you tell me. We named a 25 man squad in August, like we normally do, what is the problem?

Settle petal. I just have an opinion that the squad is too big. You're the one who chose to challenge it but offered nothing in return but "were in 3 comps" without even suggesting how big the squad needs to be. I'm not going to make your argument for you.

 

[NaijaSpurs]

Re: Tim Sherwood -Your Manager! 18 month contract confirmed!

Settle petal.

Blow me

 

[Mulletperm]

Re: Tim Sherwood -Your Manager! 18 month contract confirmed!

Staggering. When the news came up on the ticker I nearly choked.

We're Tottenham Hotspur, sure, not a mega club but certainly the 5th or 6th biggest club in the country. There is absolutely no way on planet earth we should be appointing an absolute rookie at such a pivotal time. It is a joke of a decision made by a joke of a man (Levy), who has been manipulated by Sherwood so blatantly I can't help but be amazed, given how shrewd Levy is meant to be.

Our fans, including myself have dished out thousands of pounds on tickets and season tickets this season yet for over half of it will be watching a side managed by someone with zero experience of managing a first team. Yeah AVB's side was boring as hell but at least there was that glimmer of hope there with him knowing that he had at least completed his ****ing badges!

Our players, many of whom are foreign and cost £10m+, how are they going to react to this? They have no reason to respect Sherwood cos he's achieved **** all. I mean, this guy although he has clearly coached the youths well is the same man who fielded an ineligible player in a NextGen tournament FFS! He just isn't likely to inspire these international footballers is he? (don't tell me he's motivated Adebayor, Adebayor has motived himself cos it's almost time for the transfer window to open).

Yes the football will be attacking but that doesn't mean it'll be fun to watch. Yesterday we were mostly **** against an understrength Southampton side, we barely strung three passes together but won due to a bit of luck and an on form striker doing his job for once. In Sherwood's other game we just got the ball out wide and pinged it in against West Ham hoping for the best before knackering ourselves out and losing to our rivals again.

Liverpool, Arsenal, Emirates Marketing Project, Chelsea, Everton and Man Utd fans will be ****ing loving this. Once again we are a laughing stock. They now have the top six positions wrapped up. There is no way on earth Sherwood will steer us to the top four so don't even mention it. He will just put as many attacking players on the pitch as possible and hope for the best.

The ONLY positive thing I can imagine comes out of this is we'll finally see our youngsters given a chance. But at the expense of loads of players on top dollar after we spent vast amounts on them this summer or the one before or the one before that.

I'll still go to the games and support the team and Sherwood because for me the man to blame is Levy, who has lost the plot.

The journey back to midtable mediocrity begins here boys, hold on tight...

 

[lurker of old]

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There is no way on earth Sherwood will steer us to the top four
On the contrary. If he gets the most from the team and the squad, we will be there or thereabouts. 6 points to make up....can we get 7 points or more from the next 3 league games? I think it will be hilarious if Adebayor gets us a win at old Trafford!

 

[Modric THFC]

Re: Tim Sherwood -Your Manager! 18 month contract confirmed!

No one knows why Capoue and Holtby played in the friendly so let's not jump to conclusions. I saw the story this afternoon but didn't think anything of it so didn't bother posting.

Nothing wrong with keeping them match fit. Its a better solution than flying them to Norway.

 

[metalgear]

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we buy 100 mil worth of players and then hand them to the youth academy coach with no prior first team experience to manage? its an extremely RISKY move.

its just too big too sudden a job for Tim. If he succeeds I don't think he'll be any different to Redknapp.

Seeing how Tim is going totally opposite to what AVB offers and how he manages his players, I suspect that Tim had a hand/role in AVB's departure. (See Stobart's tweets). I also suspect that Tim is going to favour the English over the foreigners. Yep Redknapp Mark II.