AVB Sacked

[Flashspur]

the wrong decision I think for a couple of reasons....you don't get rid of a coach mid season unless you are relegation fodder and I dont think we are and you are never going to get the right coach before a World Cup.

Jesus in all my years of following Spurs will the constant crises never end.....i would just love a little stability

 

[jonnyp]

Capello will be our manager by the end of the week.

I'd be seriously unhappy with that.

 

[brendanb50]

I am absolutely gutted that AVB has gone, I was a big fan of his, admittedly we looked awful yesterday, but it will be interesting who replaces him and if they are able to get the best out of players like soldado, lamela.

I do not think he had by any means of the imagination lost of the dressing room, all the players definitely enjoyed working with him

Agreed.

He's started to massively divide opinion on here but for me I still think we had some way to go as a team before his philosophy was going to pay off and we've cut him well short of that.

I think some of our home performances this year have been the tipping point all in all - definitely not up to the standard required, however for me - we're a project and not the finished article - I thought AVB was a strong part of that. Sad to see him go and I hope the next option is a positive one and not some of the names we've already seen popping up.

 

[gushayes11]

I can see only Freund staying, surely all his Portuguese pals will go too.

 

[hughy]

We'll see now wont we, whoever comes in if we start playing well & the new signings start looking like world beaters we'll know it was avb's tactics. If we still finish 7th or 8th & can't move the ball quickly we'll know we bought the wrong players.

Apart from maybe another striker, I don't think looking at it pound-for-pound anyone could say we've bought the wrong payers. A mixture of bad tactics, bad player integration and injuries is why the players we have bought have looked so average.

 

[RuskyM]

How badly must Andre be wishing he abandoned us for PSG now?

 

[parklane1]

I am totally gutted by this. That's our season over. Hope the Avb out guys are happy.

I agree its madness, we start the circle once again and if the new guy starts badly we will make the same decision again. We will never learn.

 

[Bails]

I am not going to say he should have been sacked or that he should have been allowed to continue.

I believe the majority here cannot say this too.

I would have had to sit down with AVB, look him in the eyes and see if he had the passion and drive to carry on with this project. I would have had to hear his reasons why we seem to be very inconsistent and most embarrassingly- regularly suffering huge defeats despite the fact the core defensive strength of the team was still here from last season. I would have to hear how he plans to turn it around, I would have to believe him and ask the captain (and other senior players) if this belief remains with them.

Remember last year when we let in regular last minute goals, AVB changed the training and this was eliminated- if he could convince me that this was a season where he expects the odd bad result but is trying to bed in all the signings for 2014/15 and that we would still get Europa league and perhaps a cup win due to x,y,z happening over second half of the season then I could make a decision.

At the moment we don't know if AVB had the fight for this or whether he had the solutions but Levy/ the players didn't believe he could carry it on.

Moving on- we are in all the cups and a few points of 4th- good luck to the new manager this season is not over yet!

 

[Daredevil]

Martin Jol is available, right?

 

[Kendall]

How badly must Andre be wishing he abandoned us for PSG now?

He brought it on himself.

 

[spursandbarca]

Always sell our best players? Bale had outgrown us, he wanted to leave. What did you want Levy to do? Staple his nutsack to the bench? The Suarez situation is totally different, no one was prepared to offer more than £30m. Levy sold Bale for £86m, the most money received for a player in the history of football. Bale wanted to go, and Levy got a far better deal than he should have done.

We are mid table now, so even with a disappointing managerial change we won't be any worse off, even by your own pessimistic standards.

Never say never. At the very worst ENIC got the planning permission to increase the value of the club. Now the only buyers that planning permission would appeal to are buyers who want to build a stadium. ENIC may never build the stadium, but they have gone a lot further than previous management teams in terms of facilitating it.

Blae had 4 yrs left on contract... Ignore him, let him strike whatever. After 2 months hed get ridicule and would have had to play... Levy needs to grow a set...

 

[Glengoyne]

Mixed feelings about this...one I would have liked AVB to stay and been given abit more time, but it is quite clear that 0-6 vs Man City and 0-5 vs Pool are unacceptable results and evidence he has lost the players belief in his gameplan. The spurs players really have to turn up and show there spurs from now on, I am not convinced they have all been given there best lately and they should feel just as responsible as AVB for the current results.

I wish AVB the best of luck in the future!

Lets play ball Spurs!!

 

[faymantaray]

I'm gutted to be honest.. can't be arsed to emotionally invest in yet another manager.. feeling very disillusioned with Spurs these days.

 

[spurs-r-us]

Don Fabio will be a disaster if he's appointed.

FFS. He's a spent force.

Get it right, or it all goes very wrong.

 

[parklane1]

I can't explain how fucking disgusted I am right now.

What a Joke of a club we are.

Sadly its true.

 

[Dr Know]

I hoped that he would have been given time or at least until the new year to turn it around.
We're sacking managers like a whore dropping her draws but the board is untouchable?

4-4 fucking 2 now!!!

 

[spursandbarca]

Isn't Capello about 200 years old?

67

 

[felmani26]

It really does look daft when you put it like that.

Unfortunately, rightly or wrongly, AVB was clearly not in a position where he had the support of the board (important with a transfer window coming up), the crowd (important in terms of helping the players) and quite a few of the players (as shown by their complete lack of understanding of how he wanted them to play).

I think it's a joke that we got to this position, and as I've said I think some sections of the Spurs crowd need to have a long hard look at themselves, but now that we're here it was sensible for AVB to leave. He didn't even look close to turning it around, and even with a few wins under our belts he wasn't getting the necessary support.

It was right to get rid now. But everything that went before it was crap from the fans, the chairman and the players...not to mention AVB himself.

I just don't have a clue where we go from here and what direction the board want to go down.

The whole premise of AVB was for long term success with a young manager at the helm after Redknapp so what rationale and spin will the board out on this one?

 

[spurs-r-us]

I'm gutted to be honest.. can't be arsed to emotionally invest in yet another manager.. feeling very disillusioned with Spurs these days.

It's Prem football in general. AVB and Clarke the toast of the town until the off season. Now toast.

 

[hans]

JOL IN