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Next Spurs manager mega-thread

who would it be?

  • Jose Mourinho

    Votes: 110 48.0%

  • Guus Hiddink

    Votes: 29 12.7%

  • Louis Van Gaal

    Votes: 3 1.3%

  • David Moyes

    Votes: 20 8.7%

  • Brendan Rodgers

    Votes: 40 17.5%

  • Alan Pardew

    Votes: 3 1.3%

  • Tim Owl Face Sherwood

    Votes: 3 1.3%

  • Fabio Capello

    Votes: 3 1.3%

  • Seb Bassong

    Votes: 3 1.3%

  • Sandra Redknapp

    Votes: 15 6.6%
  • Total voters
    229
Any news about the manager situation ? Really tired of seeing reports like "set to sign" or "close to sign" for 2 weeks or so now. Feel a bit nervous about AVB signing. He needs to win over the players quickly. Otherwise, we will be dragged down to mid table mediocrity again.
 
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Not that many days before the pre season start, new manager need time to plan as well.
Convinced we'll announce someone early coming week, most likely monday - and I'm fairly certain it will be Andre Villas-Boas.
 
rosenthal said:
Not that many days before the pre season start, new manager need time to plan as well.
Convinced we'll announce someone early coming week, most likely monday - and I'm fairly certain it will be Andre Villas-Boas.
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As long as it's pre-season i would be satisfied. I think most here would be.


Would prefer if it was before that though so he could organise transfer targets, acclimatise to the club and all sorts of other things..
 
Anyone hear the Roberts interview on Talksport? AVB as everyone thinks and huge investment from the Middle East
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/jul/01/andre-villas-boas-tottenham-hotspur?CMP=twt_gu

Tottenham Hotspur expect to unveil André Villas-Boas as their manager this week and his appointment is set to spark a frenzied period of transfer activity at White Hart Lane in preparation for the new Premier League season.

Negotiations are ongoing with Villas‑Boas and his representative but are considered close to resolution. The Portuguese is now contractually free to take up the reins at another English club following his dismissal as Chelsea manager in March. It is anticipated the 34-year-old will sign a three-year contract at Spurs and could be confirmed in position on Tuesday.

Villas-Boas's backroom team will include José Mario Rocha and Daniel Sousato, key members of his staff during his glittering season at Porto and his ill‑fated stint at Stamford Bridge, following the departures of Kevin Bond and Joe Jordan from the coaching team at Tottenham last week. The manager will arrive keen to re-establish his reputation having been dismissed by Chelsea nine months into a three-year deal with the team outside the Champions League places and the manager having met resistance in the dressing room for the changes he was attempting to impose.

A busy summer reshaping the squad left by Harry Redknapp awaits. Villas-Boas is expected to be followed to the club by Gylfi Sigurdsson, the goalscoring Icelandic midfielder who impressed while on loan at Swansea City for the second half of last season, from Hoffenheim for £8m. The manager also hopes to conclude deals for the Internacional midfielder Oscar dos Santos Emboaba Junior, 20, and the Belgium defender Jan Vertonghen, at around £9.5m, despite the player still negotiating the terms of his release from Ajax.

Those deals will reflect the considerable financial backing to be provided by the chairman, Daniel Levy, to ensure Spurs remain challengers next season. The club have been buoyed by Gareth Bale signing a new four-year contract worth £70,000 a week – an indication in itself that the dressing room are behind Villas-Boas's appointment – though it remains to be seen whether a deal with Emirates Marketing Project for Emmanuel Adebayor can be thrashed out given the Togo forward's wage demands. He earns £170,000 a week at the Etihad Stadium, an amount Spurs cannot match.

The England striker Jermain Defoe, who endured something of a bit-part role with the club last season, will be retained but Giovanni dos Santos is due to join Malaga and Spurs are braced for a transfer request from Luka Modric, who is agitating for Champions League football, though they will resist selling the Croatia midfielder to another Premier League team. Manchester United and Chelsea have been interested and Real Madrid are also admirers.
 
an insight into AVB's supposed compo from Chelsea, not what we expected anyway.....

However, this morning as reported here in The Sun, it seems that Roman Abramovich made a great decision when he negotiated with AVB his severance deal.

We have heard in the past how people have had inserted into their contracts, clauses that would entitle them to a lump sum or payment of the remaining part of their contract when they have been fired. Carlo Ancelotti for example, sacking him cost Roman a small fortune.

It seems that with AVB, Roman took a different course of action and it's the total opposite to the "norm" we have always heard of.

When AVB left, he remained on the Chelsea payroll until he took over another club. With wages being reported of £100,000 per week while he was here, this sum was still being paid.

So as a result, now AVB is due to be named as Spurs manager, he will miss out on the remaining part of his contract which the article believes is to be around £10.8m and has been paid only three months salary by Chelsea = around £1.2m.
 
from the sun......

Villas-Boas’ appointment is expected to be announced on the club website tomorrow.

He will not be officially unveiled until after the club’s players return to pre-season training on Monday.
 
Would just say the press have been largely complimentary of AVB so far. Even The Sun...there hasn't been any 'AVB? Levy you plonker! Harry was your man!' type stuff, and most of them seem to agree AVB has some talent and isn't neccesarily a laughing stock.

Of course the knives will be out if we go on a bad run, but that's the case with anyone. The only guy we may be immune to the flack with during a bad run probably would be Harry.
 
BrainOfLevy said:
Would just say the press have been largely complimentary of AVB so far. Even The Sun...there hasn't been any 'AVB? Levy you plonker! Harry was your man!' type stuff, and most of them seem to agree AVB has some talent and isn't neccesarily a laughing stock.

Of course the knives will be out if we go on a bad run, but that's the case with anyone. The only guy we may be immune to the flack with during a bad run probably would be Harry.
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er, no they havnt. in the last few weeks we have been utterly annihilated. and quite unfairly in my view! yesterday we even had a supposed player revolt, players refusing to play for AVB, players all demanding new contracts/transfers etc, barracading the Lodge with tyres and deliberately misplacing passes and running around half-arsed*.

the press are most certainly not on board - but its interesting they come running when spurs announce a press conference.

*last bit not true but you cant tell anyway
 
Howard Webb said:
er, no they havnt. in the last few weeks we have been utterly annihilated. and quite unfairly in my view! yesterday we even had a supposed player revolt, players refusing to play for AVB, players all demanding new contracts/transfers etc, barracading the Lodge with tyres and deliberately misplacing passes and running around half-arsed*.

the press are most certainly not on board - but its interesting they come running when spurs announce a press conference.

*last bit not true but you cant tell anyway
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The player revolt thing was clearly rubbish, the Express story was basically trying to sensationalise the fact we were selling deadwood, but other than that, I think it's been a bit positive. The Sun have been ok lately, The Guardian tried to pull one with their 'AVB threatens to quit Spurs talks' (complete with mean looking AVB pic!) but other than that...I don't think it's been too bad.
 
The last couple of days Ive had the sense that the press were turning our way a bit.

Yesterday alone the sun printed TWO POSITIVE ARTICLES! And thats the same bunch that are in Harrys pocket and have slaughtered us since he went...
 
indianspur said:
Spurs the only club in the Premiership without a manager
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only if you include west ham and allardyce. they are not a premier league club, despite being in whats known as the premier league, because they suck squirrel dingdong. and allardyce is chief squirrel dingdong.
 
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