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Villas Boaz gone

Post by Worthy4England » Mon Dec 16, 2013 11:08 am

Rather unsurprisingly...

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Post by Prufrock » Mon Dec 16, 2013 11:12 am

Still nuts for me. You buy a bazillion players it takes time. They've been uninspiring throughout, and had two humpings, but they are still well in it. Football is nuts.
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Post by thebish » Mon Dec 16, 2013 11:14 am

blimey!

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Post by thebish » Mon Dec 16, 2013 11:15 am

coyle in?

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Post by Worthy4England » Mon Dec 16, 2013 11:23 am

thebish wrote:coyle in?
Levy will have a list. On it will be Ian Dowie.

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Post by thebish » Mon Dec 16, 2013 11:27 am

Worthy4England wrote:
thebish wrote:coyle in?
Levy will have a list. On it will be Ian Dowie.
and souness?? :wink:

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Re: Villas Boaz gone

Post by Prufrock » Mon Dec 16, 2013 11:30 am

O'Leary may be ruled out by the Arsenal connection though. Curbishley would be a good bet if only they could persuade him to go that far north.
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Re: Villas Boaz gone

Post by thebish » Mon Dec 16, 2013 12:43 pm

nahhh - radknapp will have a mutual falling out at QPR and walk away with a squillion pounds and straight into a job back at spurs...

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Post by jaffka » Mon Dec 16, 2013 12:44 pm

They missed out on Pulis.

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Post by boltonboris » Mon Dec 16, 2013 12:45 pm

Wonder if they'll chuck some money at Everton.. Martinez seems the perfect fit
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Post by thebish » Mon Dec 16, 2013 12:47 pm

boltonboris wrote:Wonder if they'll chuck some money at Everton.. Martinez seems the perfect fit
surely Uwe Rosler is the next best thing?? :conf:

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Post by Zulus Thousand of em » Mon Dec 16, 2013 2:31 pm

Meggo. Nailed on.

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Post by bobo the clown » Mon Dec 16, 2013 2:54 pm

King Kenny.

His CV shows he's done the lot.
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Post by Lord Kangana » Mon Dec 16, 2013 5:46 pm

Why hasn't anyone mentioned Dougie yet?
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Post by thebish » Mon Dec 16, 2013 5:50 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:Why hasn't anyone mentioned Dougie yet?
because, clearly, that bloke from wiggin has to be the front-runner?

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Post by Lord Kangana » Mon Dec 16, 2013 5:53 pm

I thought we'd already concluded that his desk and filing cabinet are a f*cking disgrace, so ultimately he wouldn't be up to a job of such stature?
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Post by thebish » Mon Dec 16, 2013 5:57 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:I thought we'd already concluded that his desk and filing cabinet are a f*cking disgrace, so ultimately he wouldn't be up to a job of such stature?
on the contrary - he won a game 3-2 - he's clearly the future!

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Post by Lord Kangana » Mon Dec 16, 2013 6:07 pm

Only a fool would think winning games is an important part of management.
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Post by plymouth wanderer » Mon Dec 16, 2013 6:09 pm

Said all along he would'wouldn't last long
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Post by danardif1 » Tue Dec 17, 2013 6:39 am

Have the feeling that he needs to go away and get some more years under his belt at a smaller club or back in Portugal... he was fasttracked straight from one (very successful, but only one) season at Porto to Chelsea where as they do down there the board and players made it as hard as they could for him to succeed, despite him laying the foundations for their CL victory.

Then Spurs come along and everything seems a good fit. Less pressure from the top, more time to build a squad and rise up the league to hopefully become a title challenger in seasons to come. Two shellacking's later and he's gone... there are rumours abound that he was contemplating resigning soon anyway due to not enjoying the job, my guess is that because it was a 'mutual agreement' that it was more the board had enough reason to sack him but he was unhappy too.

I wouldn't lay any blame solely at AVB's door anyway... Franco Baldini was in charge of the massive recruitment drive this summer and whilst a couple of players look to just plain not fit in or be happy (Soldado and Lamela), the others are starting to bed in and get used to each other.

The media have been terrible to him as well, mainly because he goes against what most of their chums like Redknapp stand for, in that he's young, hasn't played professionally and seems to have more than just a couple of brain cells in his head. I forsee a campaign led by the papers to get their bessie mate 'Arry back in, forcing Spurs hand and making them spend a stupid amount of money (half of which will get siphoned off to some Monaco bank account in a dog's name) getting QPR to give him back. Papers will be happy, they've got their man back in a high-profile job...

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