REASONS WHY AVB WILL SUCCEED AT TOTTENHAM

The second coming of Andre Villas-Boas’ to the English Premier League, the Portuguese tactician arrival at White Hart Lane has left opinions split down the middle with some focusing on the new managers all conquering time at Porto, while others point to his ill fated spell at Stamford Bridge as proof of his inadequacies. After having a great stint with Porto of Portugal, he was then given probably the biggest challenge of his career by Mr. Roman Abrahimovic, by managing the affairs of Chelsea.

After carefully studying him for the past few years and now taking charge of the North Londoners team, Tottenham Hotspurs, I have these three things to say about the gentleman from Portugal and why I think White Hart Lane is the right place and choice for him.

While every Premiership dressing is full of multi-millionaires often with egos bigger enough to match their bank balances the Chelsea dressing room seemed to be taking player power to previously unseen heights. John Terry, Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba, Ashley Cole & co seemed to be more concerned with team select rather than their own performance and Villas-Boas was forced to drop experience players at times in an effort to tackle this player power in the dressing room. Even though, Tottenham do have some senior professionals, their unlikely to prove as obstructive to AVB’s plans as the Chelsea dressing room did, and he would be free to implement his plans and philosophies.

Tottenham are of course a huge club and as Harry Redknapp’s sacking proved that their boardroom are not scared of sacking and or changing managers. However it is long time since Tottenham were last crowned champions of England’s top division in contrast to a Chelsea side expected to mount a serious challenge for the league title year after year following the injection of Roman Abromvich’s vast wealth into the club since he acquired it. Despite bold claims from AVB of what he can achieve at White Hart Lane, success for Tottenham is still likely to take the form of Champions league qualification rather than the league title challenge expected at Stamford bridge.

Villas-Boas inherited a Chelsea team that was ageing and needed younger players to be introduced for future success of the team. It was a very radical decision he took to sideline the senior players all in the name of grooming the younger deneration for success. If ask, I must say it was a bold decision to take and he did it but was let down by his own judgement and reaction to the issue of the ageing. Roman, is the man who wants instant success not what you’ll be able to offer him in the next future.  A decision that has left AVB claiming Chelsea’s Russian owner  ”quit on him” In contrast Tottenham’s squad can be consider to be a better mix of youth and experience meaning such a radical overhaul is unlikely to have to be attempted.

I am really looking forward for the coming season and hope AVB proves his critics wrong, he has the right tactics for the EPL, good philosophy for Tottenham and with right players he’ll take the EPL by storm. He’s the best way for Spurs to clinch their first major trophy in year.