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That's harsh. I actually don't think it was that bad an idea to leave Sherwood in charge until Koeman/van Gaal/de Boer becomes available. Obviously after spending as much as we did you could argue that results should have been better, but you just can't make wholesale changes to the lineup and expect results immediately (as has been discussed at length here already).

Absolutely but surely there were better options available than him. The other weird one is that why on earth did they give him a 18 month contract?

Hiddink, Bielsa, van Gaal, Adriaanse, Emery, Rijkaard are all available and Lippi (possibly) too. Why on earth settle for that oaf is truly beyond me, Chelsea have made some weird interim appointments but also some very good ones and in hindsight all the interim managers have guided the team to a European cup final and 2 of them actually won one so knowing my luck Sherwood will probably go on to win the Europa League.

Jaw, think the reasoning behind giving him an 18mth contract is to make sure he has enough authority (real or imagined) so he's not a lame duck manager, Benitez could get away with a short term one, because he was just putting himself in the shop window at Chelsea, and he'd already won leagues and cups so could grab the players attention.

sherwood is probably out of a job come the summer, and I'm hoping Levy is doing the ground work in terms of seeing which manager would be a good fit. Fingers crossed, otherwise we've got young 'Arry and his dislike of holding midfielders, and penchant for playing young 'uns who you're not sure about for a while..

Given how spurs' season started and is panning out, having interim sherwood could work really well. For the reasons you've said a permanent real manager needed to wait a bit, and if he keeps inexplicably getting results and we end 4th/5th then that's better than we could have hoped for.

Whoever comes in needs to be up for making the best with a squash though since ours is great on paper and Levy isn't going to splash another £100m.

Spurs will not finish 4th. Get it out of your head. Not going to happen this season.
Secondly, it's a World Cup year which means that preseason is very short and if you're unlucky and qualify for the EL you end up starting the season proper 3 weeks after the semi finals of the WC. They should have thought of a replacement before sacking AVB. Short-term ism to the extreme.

Finally, Spurs are a listed company and any CEO that would let his management invest £100m+ in the space of 2 months and subsequently sack him only to replace him by someone who is completely unfamiliar with the job on hand would get sacked because of mismanaging company assets.

Spurs don't have assets, just liabilities.

Qpr >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Spurs will not finish 4th. Get it out of your head. Not going to happen this season.
Secondly, it's a World Cup year which means that preseason is very short and if you're unlucky and qualify for the EL you end up starting the season proper 3 weeks after the semi finals of the WC. They should have thought of a replacement before sacking AVB. Short-term ism to the extreme.

Finally, Spurs are a listed company and any CEO that would let his management invest £100m+ in the space of 2 months and subsequently sack him only to replace him by someone who is completely unfamiliar with the job on hand would get sacked because of mismanaging company assets.

4th I agree is a bit of a dream but silly not to hope for something that is currently one win away? Honestly I think the players are of a standard easily good enough - it's the other instabilities that cock it up. If they select a safe pair of hands in summer and let them have 3 seasons at least without interference...

The second thing is more to do with how football isn't really suited to capitalism properly. See Man U.

Jaw, as I said in the match report, we didn't play that great and luckily won, we're 3 points off 4th and 9 off top spot. With our squad and team relatively underachieving, 4th is a possibility.
I'd be amazed if we got it with the way our season has panned out, but it does make me wonder if the squad is kept together and we add another striker, a clued up manager, whether we can actually challenge for the big prize next season.
Or whether this season is as good as its going to get.

snore

whether we can actually challenge for the big prize next season.
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Alright calm down we aren't liverpool fans.

Qpr >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

^this

Jaw, as I said in the match report, we didn't play that great and luckily won, we're 3 points off 4th and 9 off top spot. With our squad and team relatively underachieving, 4th is a possibility.
I'd be amazed if we got it with the way our season has panned out, but it does make me wonder if the squad is kept together and we add another striker, a clued up manager, whether we can actually challenge for the big prize next season.
Or whether this season is as good as its going to get.

Challenging for top4 needs to be our goal next season, any less is not good enough but anymore is probably unrealistic.

Really hope this isn't the case

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26127641

We absolutely do not want to be a game behind at this stage of the season

Alright calm down we aren't liverpool fans.

ermmmm the myth perpetuates

John Henry serving up some transport advice?

It is a lot harder to get to Fulham than Arsenal and WH.

Toure off the hook for booting RvW on Saturday? What a joke.

Yeah Moronio isn't happy. He is already bleating about it amongst a 1000 other things.
It's because they are rich init. Seems a little unfair when you compare it with the Carroll saga

was surprised Toure got off and as for Jose complaining - yet again moving the issue off his team with the up coming FA cup game vs City. shift the issue!!

toure gets off and bellamy gets done for a lesser offence. quelle surfuckingprise

Are we laughing at Harry again?

@nesbit and s785,

not trying to be ridiculously optimistic, just thinking despite the gelling issues, sacking our manager halfway through the season and relying on an out of favour striker to keep us in the hunt, we are still in the hunt. Amazingly.

I'm not talking about 'Next Season Being Our Season', but if we had more than two players having good seasons, thinking Adebayor since he's returned, and Lloris, we could be in the mix, as title challengers and in with a strong shout of a CL place.

Alot depends on how we end this season..

I don't think Lloris is having a bad season. I think your season went loopy because of an immature manager who didn't learn from his Chelsea experience in the first half and having an inept one for the second half.

Also, I wasn't aware that Fulham have another Moussa Dembélé on the books.

toure gets off and bellamy gets done for a lesser offence. quelle surfuckingprise

This. To be honest neither are bad - but you can't in the same breath admonish one player and turn a blind eye to another.
That for me is the gripe.