I hope it's nothing at all, but seriously, not a word from him on the Sinclair purchase.As a manager I would expect him to have a few words on our buys, I hope it is nothing.His interviews to date have been bang on and his comments about players also, but nothing about Sinclair..........
Was trying to post this on the other Sherwood thread but it seems to have been locked. In all serious for a minute, he does bloody deserve a medal.We were just so seriously Fxxxxd before he arrived. It wasn't a case of whether we were going down or not because that was taken as a given. The debate we were having a few months ago was whether relegation would be good for the club and whether we would get back at the first time of asking.Sherwood was the perfect and possibly only antidote to lift the Lambert fog.
I believe him when he says he'll sort it too, unlike the last 2 managers.
I haven't been to any games under Sherwood but is there really a sense of acceptance that he's one of us? Is there any vocal and lasting Tim Sherwood's claret & blue army? Singing for him to give us a wave? Any other songs directed towards him? Seeing as local rivals sing about him shows that they're worried about him/us again.
FA Cup final: Tim Sherwood - Villa's Marmite managerAston Villa chief is following in the footsteps of his one-time mentor Harry Redknapp as an acquired taste or a turn-off, writes Jason Burt By Jason Burt6:53PM BST 28 May 2015If Tim Sherwood wins the FA Cup final on Saturday with Aston Villa it will be a remarkable achievement; a real fillip for English managers and a boost for clubs outside the top four. For that alone the neutral should root for them.In fact Sherwood will become only the second English manager since Everton’s Joe Royle in 1995 to land the trophy. The one to do it in the meantime was Harry Redknapp, with Portsmouth, in 2008, and there is a parallel between Sherwood and his one-time mentor.They are, for want of a better phrase, Marmite-managers; an acquired taste or a turn-off – Love ’em or loathe’ em – although quite why anyone should do the latter is also hard to work out. But they do polarise opinion. They talk the talk; they give good sound bites. They have that confidence, that charm and patter but also, with some justification it would seem, constantly have their credentials questioned and their tactical nous doubted.Let’s be honest, no one is quite sure how good they are, partly because there are so many conflicting stories.For Sherwood it is even more difficult to quantify in that here is someone who is 46 and yet is incongruously bracketed as a ‘young manager’ in British football even though he is nine years older than Bournemouth’s Eddie Howe, four years older than Liverpool’s Brendan Rodgers and a year older than the man he replaced at Villa, Paul Lambert.Sherwood has managed just 44 matches; Howe already has more than 300 games in charge. Here is a manager who boasts an impressive 51 per cent win ratio in Premier League matches but has never been in charge of a club for a complete season and who has never overseen a pre-season or traded in a transfer window.There is not a significant body of work or even a defined style of working to assess but Sherwood has already emerged as one of the most opinionated managers in the game. There is impact and in more ways that one. But is there substance?Here is a manager who is derided as ‘Tactics Tim’, who can appear rash and naive, who wears his heart on his sleeve, but who comprehensively tactically out-thought Rodgers in the FA Cup semi-final victory over Liverpool and whose deployment of 19-year-old Jack Grealish in a midfield diamond has been bold and clever. Here also is a manager whose team have lost limply in their last two league fixtures – 6-1 away to Southampton, 1-0 at home to Burnley – to finish one place but three points above the relegation zone, and who has benefited from an astonishing run of scoring from striker Christian Benteke (11 in 13 league matches), who now appears likely to leave in the summer.It depends on which side of the fence you fall or want to fall when it comes to forming an opinion about him.Tottenham Hotspur promoted and then fired Sherwood. He came and went without anyone really knowing quite how good he was even though he had been there for six years and had the ear of chairman Daniel Levy.No one could really, either, work out how much credit he should take for the development of young players such as Harry Kane, Ryan Mason and Nabil Bentaleb even if he was intent on taking, well, quite a lotSherwood is certainly confident. He did not hold back in his behind-the-scenes criticisms of his predecessor at Spurs, Andre Villas-Boas, or his questioning of the Portuguese’s tactics. But is he any good?His nickname as a player at Blackburn Rovers was “Slippery”. It was meant as a term of affection but the connotations were clear. Sherwood has a Teflon quality which is no bad thing in football given how irrational it can be. But it does lead to people being suspicious.And yet he was also Blackburn’s captain in a team that included Alan Shearer and was managed by Kenny Dalglish. So there is clearly substance there.At Spurs, Sherwood benefited from having Chris Ramsey alongside him as a coach and at Villa he was shrewd to bring back Kevin MacDonald and bring in Mark Robson so there is the mark of team-building. For Sherwood the FA Cup final is a glorious adornment, a fantastic bonus to what his aim was when he took over at Villa: avoid relegation. He is also right to point out that winning trophies is what being in football is all about and he will cherish a victory if he earns it.But then his work really begins especially if, as is hoped, Villa are sold this summer by Randy Lerner and there is a fresh injection of investment and ambition into the club.That should provide Sherwood with the perfect platform to remain as the manager of a club for at least a complete season.
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