AVB Announced as new manager

[Spursking]

When will they have a press conference?

 

[RickyVilla]

When will they have a press conference?

When he gets his first Spurs tattoo done

 

[Crash]

Going to get a tattoo of AVB smiling in a white Spurs polo shirt

 

[RickyVilla]

Ha ha ha SK. You need to lighten up a bit geezer. Anyway when are we signing Ali Dia's son?

 

[bomberH]

Sorry if already been posted...

 

[RickyVilla]

How dare he take a dump on our badge. Boas Out!

 

[Spursking]

Ha ha ha SK. You need to lighten up a bit geezer. Anyway when are we signing Ali Dia's son?

I am happy today, but when you talk about tattoo players, it makes me sad again. We are Tottenham Hotspur FC, and we don't want to have prisoners as players. We want to be a Club that everyone can like. Good rolemodels for kids and young players.

We have one of the best academies out there. Let's use it to our advantage.

 

[venablesphil]

I've been on date night, I know on the day AVB announced, she's a pain! What is the general opinion on his appointment.

I'm personally excited by it!

 

[SamR]

I think this could be a great long-term appointment for the club - really hoping he safeguards his job with a decent enough start to the new campaign. Very much looking forward to seeing what he does with the squad and youth team. I don't know why but I've got a feeling VDV might not stick around though. We just need to all get behind him and trust him with his system going forward. A risk like this is probably the only way we can push the top 4 without significant investment.

 

[THOWIG]

We must give him time.

 

[RickyVilla]

I am happy today, but when you talk about tattoo players, it makes me sad again. We are Tottenham Hotspur FC, and we don't want to have prisoners as players. We want to be a Club that everyone can like. Good rolemodels for kids and young players.

We have one of the best academies out there. Let's use it to our advantage.

You calling JJ a convict?

 

[venablesphil]

We must give him time.

He wasn't given this at Chelsea and what he was trying to do would never work with the squad he had. Hopefully he has learnt from what mistakes he may have made and will show Chelsea what a big mistake they made by not backing him. You know whatthey say hell hath no fury like a ginger bearded man scorned.

 

[alpha]

Here is an interesting quote from Pardrew, lifted from a piece in the Guardian; http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/jul/03/tottenham-andre-villas-boas?

"We've lost a really, really, talented coach," said Alan Pardew, the Newcastle United manager on hearing the news of Villas-Boas's Chelsea downfall. "He had to take on a club in a transition year with a lot of senior pros in the background and he had a very, very difficult job. I hope that, one day, some of those senior pros will apologise to André. They should do so because he deserved better."

 

[ravo]

Funny interview I just saw on YT:

 

[Winchy85]

I think this could be a great long-term appointment for the club - really hoping he safeguards his job with a decent enough start to the new campaign. Very much looking forward to seeing what he does with the squad and youth team. I don't know why but I've got a feeling VDV might not stick around though. We just need to all get behind him and trust him with his system going forward. A risk like this is probably the only way we can push the top 4 without significant investment.

I was under the impression that we just need to aim 8th and higher for a couple of seasons with very little outgoings in players whilst we pushed the new stadium through. Levy has a long term ambitiion rather than short term and see's AVB as the man to steady us with younger cheaper players coming through.

It will be interesting if we finish 7th for example, how the fans take to it. I wouldn't be surprised to see us drop a few places in the league next season.

 

[raf18]

Sorry if already posted but here is an opposition team report, compiled by AVB when he was at Chelsea:

http://www.bragafut.com/artigos/art18.pdf

 

[StartingPrice]

Sorry if already posted but here is an opposition team report, compiled by AVB when he was at Chelsea:

http://www.bragafut.com/artigos/art18.pdf

A massive contrast to The 'Arry Redknapp Opposition Report:

Listen, right, this lot are good...so, we gotta, we gotta, er...run abat abit...gerrin their faces...look lively...yeah.

Or The david PleatMeister Opposition Report:

These young man will attack us down the central flanks like coiled springs, like jellied eels, like fatigued marmosets, so we are going to have to concentrate on not being laxitive around the box. But in attack, you have to shoot straight as a marble, as soon as you see the whites of their ears, shoot like rocket-lorry, with real purpose and intentionality. That, in a nutcase, is are the opposition and Jermaine Defoe who I brought to Tottenham

 

[tototoner]

AVB is the 1st Tottenham Head Coach that is younger than I am, I now feel very old at 39

 

[punky]

Not seen it mentioned yet but I think signing AVB means we will start taking the Europa league now seriously again

 

[StartingPrice]

Not seen it mentioned yet but I think signing AVB means we will start taking the Europa league now seriously again

It has been mentioned. I've said it, and I've seen other folk saying it - and I think most of us consider it a very positive thing.