dounavilla Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Richard , are u fluent in innuendo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 With all these Arsenal connections we could do with Usmanov buying us to complete everything. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Villan4Life Posted February 12, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 12, 2015 http://www.umaxit.com/index.php/columns/desperate-times-call-for-tim-sherwood Over the past few months, some clubs have been in the heartbreakingly sad situation of considering Tim Sherwood as a candidate to take over as their manager. Nothing quite defines desperation like being in a position where that man has somehow become a viable option to take your side forward. Time after time, however, Sherwood has been overlooked at the final moment, and a series of clubs have avoided making a horrific mistake. Yet, through his own brand of self-aggrandisement and increasing number of mutually beneficial pals in the press, the cult of Sherwood doesn’t seem to be going away any time soon—yet more proof that there isn’t a God. Tim Sherwood is the personification of autofellatio. He is consistently dishonest, he is unimaginably unlikeable, he is perversely self-obsessed and spectacularly arrogant to boot. At the time of writing, it still isn’t completely clear or not whether he’s actually in possession of the full compliment of coaching badges required to become a Premier League manager, but it’s not like that’s stopped him before. The fact of the matter is this: Tim Sherwood is not the sort of person a professional institution of any nature should want to be associated with. His only job in management at Tottenham is a perfect example of exactly why Sherwood should seem completely unemployable by all those unfortunate enough to be mentioned in the same breath as he is. The journey he took to the role of manager was less about hard work, suitability and having actually earned the position, but more about manipulation, gross misconduct and disloyalty. He was confirmed to be the source behind several tabloid attacks on then manager Andre Villas-Boas, and was feeding hyperbole-laden negative accounts of behind-the-scenes life at Tottenham to the likes of TalkSport, who were of course more than happy to help peddle and promote his agenda ridden rhetoric. After the dust had settled on both Villas-Boas and Sherwood at Tottenham, the now-Zenit manager was asked about his relationship in his former role with the man who replaced him, and didn’t mix his words when replying: “Tim was not part of my team, but I already alerted the president that he was detrimental to the club. (Sherwood) continued after I left and his leadership resulted in a extreme split between the players and the coach”. In his own words, Villas-Boas highlights that he felt so strongly against Sherwood being involved at any level in the club he was managing that he proactively warned Daniel Levy about his negative effect on the club. In hindsight, Sherwood was probably one step ahead at that stage, and had already gained the confidence of Levy behind closed doors, which should probably go down as one of the chairman’s biggest errors of judgement in his time at the club. Those who have not had to support a club he’s been in charge of have often mistaken Sherwood’s idiocy for honesty, in a similar fashion to how fans of Nigel Farage are often found describing his unique way of promoting bile. His am-dram level of theatrics in press conferences allowed him a platform to openly interview for every job available in football, and before long, his tenure at Tottenham became more about self-promotion than good management. Propelled by his overconfidence in his own ability and ignorance towards his own self image, Sherwood spoke of himself in Pep Guardiola-like glowing terms, when in reality being little more than an opportunistic charlatan. The man he is most compared to is Harry Redknapp, the man who brought him in under his wing at Tottenham, and the man he may well yet replace at QPR, in a sort of football does Oedipus twist of fate. While their relationship with the press, tactical ineptitude and questionable character statuses are overtly comparable, the link is somewhat unfair on Redknapp, a man who I won’t often be found defending. Redknapp operates with a certain level of self-knowing, charisma and charm that eludes Sherwood, and unlike the former, Sherwood is yet to prove himself in several roles across the football league. In fact, Sherwood has actually been actively turning down Premier League jobs, such is the man’s ego and sense of entitlement. His preference, apparently, is for complete autonomy with a club on all levels, and ideally for that club to be based around London, because god forbid he should have to commute. That’s an awfully long list of demands from a man who might not actually be entirely qualified to take up these positions he’s been routinely applying for. It’s a smack in the face of those managers down the league, who have cut their teeth in the lower leagues with bundles of experience, only for a man with a cabal of press associates and six questionable months at Tottenham under his belt. We haven’t actually seen much of Sherwood managerially in an ideological sense. His time at Tottenham was boom and bust, a result of naivety and the over-simplistic. The football was generic, the tactics were maddeningly transparent and the results were par for the course. In the long term at Tottenham, he’ll be remembered as little more than a glorified caretaker and palette cleanser in between management regimes. His biggest achievement in his time in charge was the immediate introduction of Nabil Bentaleb to first-team football, for which he deserves credit, but that’s one note of success drowned out by a cacophony of various failings. A perfect example of how Sherwood has campaigned himself since the summer came last week. Pictures emerged from a sponsor event, where a panel was assembled to discuss footballing issues of the day, including Sherwood himself, and one Henry Winter, a Telegraph football correspondent. In an almost parody like turn of events in which no party emerges from at all well, within 48 hours of those pictures appearing on the internet, Winter had penned a column eulogising about Sherwood, painting a picture of the perfect managerial revolutionary. This is not a man that any football fan should want anywhere near their football club. Is he likely to win the odd football match and introduce a style of football that, much like a car crash, is watchable in a perverse way? Probably, yeah. But what you’ll also find is increased press access within the club, streams of information leaks and sourceless exclusives across the internet and a growing sense of disillusionment with your club the longer he stays in charge. At some point in the future, Sherwood is going to have to accept a job in football again, rather than “turning them down” at the 11th hour because his “terms and vision” weren’t being adhered to. When that time comes, good luck to the club that falls for it—you’re going to need it. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Simply put, if the right choice is made, we have a team who will compete in the top 10. Depending on staying up of course. COME ON VILLA! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 dont like sherwood, he goes on like he is mourinho or ferguson. he has achieved eff all, less than lambert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG_Villa_Fan Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Simply put, if the right choice is made, we have a team who will compete in the top 10. Depending on staying up of course. COME ON VILLA! Disagree, I think most of our players are extremely overrated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexbelowsound Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 The article about Tim Sherwood was quite a painful read and obviously not a neutral piece but it did raise a few important points which hopefully Fox is aware of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Simply put, if the right choice is made, we have a team who will compete in the top 10. Depending on staying up of course. COME ON VILLA! Disagree, I think most of our players are extremely overrated. Probably should be in a different thread, but Guzan, Cissokho, Vlaar, Okore, Clark (of current), Delph, Westwood, Sanchez, Gil and Benteke are most certainly players who can compete in the top 10. Some for European chasing clubs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted February 12, 2015 Moderator Share Posted February 12, 2015 Ouch Good read though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 12, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted February 12, 2015 Simply put, if the right choice is made, we have a team who will compete in the top 10. Depending on staying up of course. COME ON VILLA! Disagree, I think most of our players are extremely overrated. Probably should be in a different thread, but Guzan, Cissokho, Vlaar, Okore, Clark (of current), Delph, Westwood, Sanchez, Gil and Benteke are most certainly players who can compete in the top 10. Some for European chasing clubs. The main point is they're better than 18th in the Premier League I think we can all agree on that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Sherwood. I'm pretty sure I'll never have to go out for a beer with whoever is appointed. So I don't have to like him. These players need their arses kicked. Martin Jol is too laid back and didn't seem to care one jot while he was relegating Fulham. Indeed, was a great 'man manager' and 'motivator' at Spurs wasn't he? Truly brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted February 12, 2015 Moderator Share Posted February 12, 2015 I feel as if Stevo himself could have written that Sherwood article 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Simply put, if the right choice is made, we have a team who will compete in the top 10. Depending on staying up of course. COME ON VILLA! Disagree, I think most of our players are extremely overrated. Probably should be in a different thread, but Guzan, Cissokho, Vlaar, Okore, Clark (of current), Delph, Westwood, Sanchez, Gil and Benteke are most certainly players who can compete in the top 10. Some for European chasing clubs. The main point is they're better than 18th in the Premier League I think we can all agree on that? Yep, most certainly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillanousOne Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 so Sherwood at Spurs, made Adebeyor a decent scoring striker, made Mason, Kane and few other youngsters successfull first team members No he didn't. Yes he did ooh i do love Pantomime he's behind you! Kane made 6 appearances last season. Sherwood gave him his debut, but to claim he made him a successful player is debateable. Mason made his league debut this season, and prior to that had made 1 or 2 appearances in cup competitions, so you've totally made that one up I'm afraid. yes it's ok I get it, you don't like Sherwood No I don't. But that doesn't have any bearing to these posts. You posted false information. I was just correcting you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 12, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted February 12, 2015 I feel as if Stevo himself could have written that Sherwood article I did post it this morning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Remi Garde wouldn't be a bad shout, maybe with Houllier as director of football Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KHV Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 I quite like the idea of the Grampus Eight manager personally (cant be arsed to spell his name) or Klinsmann. I feel both are somewhat unlikely though. Who knows what Mr Fox has planned?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Are people still kidding themselves on here that Richard knows what going on at VP? He did seem to have a heads up about lambert going yesterday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Are people still kidding themselves on here that Richard knows what going on at VP? Richard might not be 'ITK' but he does seem to have an uncanny sixth sense for what's going to happen, only yesterday he was certain that Lambert was going to leave and that's what happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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