Watching this high pressing crap makes me huff and puff and generally leave the games early.Watching him huff and puff trying to cope with a high pressing system wouldn't have been great for anyone.
"And Harry [Redknapp] — he was like your dad. I would give everything for that man;
In other words you get what you pay for! Opportunity's like that do not come often and if you miss the boat then you have to wait a long time for another.Reading that article and some of the comments on here about how we passed on Suarez, Cahill and Dzeko has made me realise we really are the Sisyphus of football.
I did and anyways always suspected he pushed VDV out.
VDV is in my top 5 of the modern era at spurs and this had reinforced that.
"It was a little to do with everything. It was private things, but also when what's his name [Andre Villas-Boas] came he said to me 'you're not my number one' and I had played two years, like, unbelievable, so for me it was really strange that he said that to me...
I think it's well documented that he went with Sylvie. We all accepted that at the time and it softened the blow of him leaving.I guess we all read the bits of the article we want to read.
I read that and immediately saw this:
And the bit in bold immediately confirmed to me what I always suspected, which was that he moved back to Germany to try to save his marriage.
We all know the story about AVB telling VDV that he wasn't an automatic selection. That does show what a poor judge of footballers AVB could be, but it also reflected the degree of indulgence that VDV required: rarely up to finishing 90 minutes, needing an attacking formation to be built around his skills [and his ego] and not the best at tackling or closing down.
None of that adds up to him being "pushed out". It adds up to him needing to leave for personal reasons and AVB failing, foolishly, to give him any reason to stay.
P.S. I love him referring to AVB as "what's his name". Mischievous.
Actually, he comes across as an idiot. He assaulted his ex-wife, which some of you schmucks may conveniently pass over.I guess we all read the bits of the article we want to read.
I read that and immediately saw this:
And the bit in bold immediately confirmed to me what I always suspected, which was that he moved back to Germany to try to save his marriage.
We all know the story about AVB telling VDV that he wasn't an automatic selection. That does show what a poor judge of footballers AVB could be, but it also reflected the degree of indulgence that VDV required: rarely up to finishing 90 minutes, needing an attacking formation to be built around his skills [and his ego] and not the best at tackling or closing down.
None of that adds up to him being "pushed out". It adds up to him needing to leave for personal reasons and AVB failing, foolishly, to give him any reason to stay.
P.S. I love him referring to AVB as "what's his name". Mischievous.
Jason Burt of The Telegraph, and a friend of AVB, told me categorically that AVB did not want VDV to leave.
Actually, he comes across as an idiot. He assaulted his ex-wife, which some of you schmucks may conveniently pass over.
I'm sure you're comforted by the hagiography.And he was mortified by it. He made a mistake in an emotionally upsetting situation and he knew it and he acknowledged it.