Villas-Boas "Tottenham Board Destroyed Everything I Built"

[Lilbaz]

I'm guessing he's saying this because he wants to get back into football? Does he not realise slagging off your old employers isn't attractive to new ones?

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

Didn't like how certain media treated him. It felt like they purposefully wanted to sink him and I think it's because he didn't have a playing career so they felt they could attack him and not get the "if you've ever played the game" line thrown back in their faces.

Perhaps because he didn't have a playing career and didn't know what he was doing.

 

[nattydredd]

Totally out of his depth and crumbled under the pressure.

He was very lucky to have Bale in his team initially...masked so many issues

Complete farce of a manager/coach.

 

[davidmatzdorf]

Typically, the headline is misleading. It implies that the board has destroyed everything he created since he left and Pochettino arrived - the daft implication being that we were better before he left than we are now. It makes a nice inflammatory story.

But that's not what he actually said. He said the board destroyed everything he had tried to create during the summer between his first and second seasons, by rejecting his proposals for transfers. It's clear enough from the quotation, which of course has been buried at the end of the article:

The former Chelsea boss went on to criticise the Spurs board, headed by chairman Daniel Levy for their responses to his transfer requests.

He said: “In April, we started planning for the next season. I offered some names to buy and sell, but during the transfer window, the board didn’t listen and quickly destroyed everything we’d created.”

Journo-bullshit. Waste of time.

 

[JCRD]

He was proper shit and a proper Charlatan

I still remember that Liverpool game - we were absolutely humiliated.

I do feel slightly sorry for him as we did get rid of Bale etc having said that it was the football that was utter tripe, made me want to chop my balls off and munch on them.

 

[double0]

AvB was alright he was promised certain players but unsurprisingly the board wasn't willing to spend transfer records on Hulk and Mourtinho

 

[bomberH]

Since the 80’s for me it’s

Burkinshaw
Poch
Venables
Redknapp
Jol

Poch will overtake Burky at some point hopefully. Venables and Redknapp could easily have been the other way around but his FA Cup win gives him the edge, though Redknapp gave us CL. Ramos won us a cup but we were utter shit afterwards.

AVB is quite far down the list, but he’s above the likes of Santini & Gross... and Ossie, bless him.

 

[spursfan77]

He wanted us to spend a fortune on players.

Wasn’t helped by having to pull the knives out of his back placed there by Sherwood at every turn.

Levy then backed adebayor over him over that training ground cap incident and then it was all over.

I liked him but he’s virtually been forgotten now.

 

[Paolo10]

Good luck to him, if he did something with a lesser team I might pay some attention to him...he even got Hulk and a few of his favourites to follow him to Russia and China and didn't exactly set either league on fire.

The Porto hype was ridiculous.

 

[gaffers]

Good luck to him, if he did something with a lesser team I might pay some attention to him...he even got Hulk and a few of his favourites to follow him to Russia and China and didn't exactly set either league on fire.

The Porto hype was ridiculous.

He won the Russian Premier League.

 

[Paolo10]

After Zenit being rich and regularly in the Top 2 for a while before he arrived....not really such a great achievement IMO.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

Usually it’s outdated old dinosaurs who make obvious desperate comments in an attempt to stay relevant, which says all you need to know about AVB.

 

[Ghost Hardware]

What I would say is that joao moutinho would have been an excellent buy and Levy did seem to fuck that one up by doing his usual brinkmanship bullshit. Regardless of what else, he can be pissed off about that as his signing could have been very important for the club.

 

[Kiedis]

Thought what he did in the 12/13 season has been underestimated. Yes, Bale was good, but he also set the team up to let him do his thing better than Redknapp did.

We beat City, Liverpool, Arsenal and United, and did develop a back bone rarely seen before.

The 13/14 season was total ass though.

 

[SUIYHA]

AVB was no better than Christian Gross who is widely mocked as one of the worst managers we've ever had. Both have won trophies in tinpot leagues with far more resources than the rest of the division - before and after Tottenham. The difference was that Gross inherited one of the worst Tottenham sides in living memory whereas AVB inherited a team that had come 4th, 5th, 4th in the previous three years. At least Gross entertained us with a 6-2 away win at Wimbledon once.

Surely he can't have actually expected to be able to come to a club like Tottenham and spend Man City-esque amounts of money? I mean it's not like Soldado, Paulinho, Lamela etc were cheap, bargain basement signings. The guy was way way out of his depth and Pochettino's success in the following years under Levy has shown him up for what he really is.

 

[sxboy]

Some of the most depressing boring football Id seen for years. I was over the moon when he went.

If it wasn't for Bale he'd have gone long before he did.

 

[pook]

AVB was no better than Christian Gross ...

to be fair, mate, that really is unduly harsh.

 

[DiscoD1882]

Wah wah waaaaaahhhhh!!

 

[Shadydan]

Some really OTT nonsense in here about AVB

 

[richard_gleeson]

Thought he did a great job in first season. May be some truth in the off season mess, as we've seen even with Poch... Not always the managers fault...