Andre Villas-Boas

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Walsh position under scrutiny (about effing time) according to times. Would throw some doubt on avb as you'd think board would keep a dof he is familiar with.

Bit off topic but on the contrary contrary it's not inconceivable walsh is binned as dyche wants top to bottom control. At the exact moment I think that's fine we're not far enough in our upward trajectory to need a dof. We need to sort this mess out now, and if that means the manager is in charge of recruitment so be it.
 
Who's_up_for_cumpkins? said:
Walsh position under scrutiny (about effing time) according to times. Would throw some doubt on avb as you'd think board would keep a dof he is familiar with.

Bit off topic but on the contrary contrary it's not inconceivable walsh is binned as dyche wants top to bottom control. At the exact moment I think that's fine we're not far enough in our upward trajectory to need a dof. We need to sort this mess out now, and if that means the manager is in charge of recruitment so be it.
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I'd be happy to get rid of the DOF all together no matter who we get, think teams just get to messy with the different egos trying to build their version of a team
 

blulouie said:
Some fantastic players he has signed there.
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With the massive exception of Eriksen he signed some poor buys at Spurs with the Gareth Bale money

Soldado
Chichires
Ettiene Capoue
Lamela
Paulinho (although has now come good in Spain)

tbf it was too many all at once that made the start to his second season so poor,

A bit like Koeman here a very encouraging big improvement in his first season was largely forgotten following a really poor transfer window, a much poorer start and damaging 6-0 and 5-0 defeats by City and Liverpool interspersed by two London derby defeats, including QPR and a defeat to West Brom

His time at Chelsea that preceded that by a bit was also largely disappointing and he left the normally title challengers adrift of even fourth place Arsenal by three points

Besides all that he was great at both clubs lol
 

Chris O'Connor said:
With the massive exception of Eriksen he signed some poor buys at Spurs with the Gareth Bale money

Soldado
Chichires
Ettiene Capoue
Lamela
Paulinho (although has now come good in Spain)

tbf it was too many all at once that made the start to his second season so poor,

A bit like Koeman here a very encouraging big improvement in his first season was largely forgotten following a really poor transfer window, a much poorer start and damaging 6-0 and 5-0 defeats by City and Liverpool interspersed by two London derby defeats, including QPR and a defeat to West Brom

His time at Chelsea that preceded that by a bit was also largely disappointing and he left the normally title challengers adrift of even fourth place Arsenal by three points

Besides all that he was great at both clubs lol
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I think with AVB you just have to wonder if he has the steel to learn and improve over time. He was impossibly young for the Chelsea job and incorrectly thought of as a Mourinho MkII. And yeah, he was hit and miss at Spurs, although I'm not certain he had full control of the Bale money signings. As we've seen ourselves, a high quantity of poorly thought out recruitment can be damaging.

He did pretty well at Zenit, though: picked them up 2/3 into the season and narrowly missed out on the title, won it in his second season with a very good defensive record. In his last season they finished 3rd, won their version of the FA cup and won their CL group.

No idea about his time in China. Looks like he finished second with Shanghai this year but the only thing we can really say is that he earned a wedge and evidently wants to go somewhere else now.

He's a weird one in that he has extensive experience but is still very young and has something to prove. I'd personally like us to take the gamble, although I was saying the same thing last year before we hired Koeman.
 

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