I'm flabbergasted. Why a 3.5 year contract?Is there a worse run club than Villa?
Pros:Good tactician - a couple of shockers where he didn't use a DM, but generally was very good tactically. Versatile in his approach (beat Pochettino twice, using two very different game plans to get the result). A few other examples here - http://www.glory-glory.co.uk/community/threads/tim-sherwoodgone-o.5527/page-208#post-512241Good judge of a player - Brought Bentaleb and Kane into the first team squad from the youth team when it was clear he didn't rate Capoue and Soldado from early on. A lot of people really didn't agree with that at the time (remember the whole Bentaleb is Sherwood's lovechild thing?)Cons:Man management - Was clear that a lot of his players didn't like him. The team often appeared nervous and regularly capitulated in big games, very few players looked like they were enjoying their football on the pitch. Though he is one of the few managers who has successfully man managed AdebayorPoor coach - So many sloppy mistakes from the team on the pitch, both in attack and defence. A lot of our players badly regressed under him.Media handling - Oh god, some of those interviews. Some of those comments. Was an utter laughing stock in the media.If he's taken a step back, taken a long hard look at himself and learned when to keep his mouth shut (both to the media and to his players), he'll probably keep Villa up. Whether he'll ever really progress them though will require him getting some good backroom staff to help with the coaching though.
Quote from: Monty on February 14, 2015, 04:51:56 PMQuote from: mattjpa on February 14, 2015, 04:50:43 PMAgain, absolute conjecture. I would bet my house on the fact that a multi million pound company has looked at and considered more than one person for the most important position within its management structure. You however, have made up your mind and seem to believe you have inside knowledge as to how Tottenham Hotspur conduct training and Aston Villa conduct recruitment procedures. I imagine you don't but am happy to be proven wrong. Go for it.It's been widely reported that they only interviewed Sherwood.You said they didn't even look. My point is that you have no idea how many people they have looked at, how many meetings they have had, how many candidates were considered. How do you know they didn't draw up a short list of 15 potential candidates, dedicate a head hunting team to collate information and professional opinions on all of them, have a set of in depth selection discussion meetings, whittle it down to a first choice and a second choice. Then Meet their first choice man, hear all the right things and hire him to give him maximum time to sort us out
Quote from: mattjpa on February 14, 2015, 04:50:43 PMAgain, absolute conjecture. I would bet my house on the fact that a multi million pound company has looked at and considered more than one person for the most important position within its management structure. You however, have made up your mind and seem to believe you have inside knowledge as to how Tottenham Hotspur conduct training and Aston Villa conduct recruitment procedures. I imagine you don't but am happy to be proven wrong. Go for it.It's been widely reported that they only interviewed Sherwood.
Again, absolute conjecture. I would bet my house on the fact that a multi million pound company has looked at and considered more than one person for the most important position within its management structure. You however, have made up your mind and seem to believe you have inside knowledge as to how Tottenham Hotspur conduct training and Aston Villa conduct recruitment procedures. I imagine you don't but am happy to be proven wrong. Go for it.
Quote from: Villafirst on February 14, 2015, 04:18:28 PMSherwood had an instant affect at Spurs when he took over from AVB. Let's hope he can do the same for Villa over the next 3 months and keep us up.Can we nail this lie / misconception once and for all He didn't turn around a failing Spurs team.He took a squad that was worth several hundred million pounds, full of players still getting to know each other, and kept them precisely where he found them.
Sherwood had an instant affect at Spurs when he took over from AVB. Let's hope he can do the same for Villa over the next 3 months and keep us up.
Pros and cons from a Spurs messageboard:QuotePros:Good tactician - a couple of shockers where he didn't use a DM, but generally was very good tactically. Versatile in his approach (beat Pochettino twice, using two very different game plans to get the result). A few other examples here - http://www.glory-glory.co.uk/community/threads/tim-sherwoodgone-o.5527/page-208#post-512241Good judge of a player - Brought Bentaleb and Kane into the first team squad from the youth team when it was clear he didn't rate Capoue and Soldado from early on. A lot of people really didn't agree with that at the time (remember the whole Bentaleb is Sherwood's lovechild thing?)Cons:Man management - Was clear that a lot of his players didn't like him. The team often appeared nervous and regularly capitulated in big games, very few players looked like they were enjoying their football on the pitch. Though he is one of the few managers who has successfully man managed AdebayorPoor coach - So many sloppy mistakes from the team on the pitch, both in attack and defence. A lot of our players badly regressed under him.Media handling - Oh god, some of those interviews. Some of those comments. Was an utter laughing stock in the media.If he's taken a step back, taken a long hard look at himself and learned when to keep his mouth shut (both to the media and to his players), he'll probably keep Villa up. Whether he'll ever really progress them though will require him getting some good backroom staff to help with the coaching though.http://www.glory-glory.co.uk/community/threads/tim-sherwood.6708/page-18#post-669982
If he gets us scoring and we stay up I'll be delighted, if we go down I won't blame him. I'm going to get behind him and see how we go, we wanted Lambert out and we got it.
If Yakubu can score his first goal in England in 8 years, then anything can happen...
Feel let down and underwhelmed.Is this the best we could get? Possibly/probably.Still, he's now the manager and will get my full support and hope he's the man to make us play attacking football and win a trophy. The FA Cup is there to be won this season.
wasn't Yakubu still at Everton 11/12?
This has to be the most under qualified villa manager ever ?
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