Opinion of AVB in hindsight?

[mattstev2000]

Meh, I liked him. Thought he did well with a pretty medicore squad and Bale. Football was a bit dull but the last 3/4 years before Ange have been equally dull.

Seemed to be more invested in the club than Redknapp who was always out for himself. Also if I recall he gave us one of our first wins at Old Trafford in about a million years which was great at the time. Felt like a turning point.

 

[cjbyid]

Wonder how much he made being sacked between us & Chelsea?

 

[sherbornespurs]

My abiding memory of AVB was that 0-5 home defeat to Liverpool.

When their 4th went in Brendan Rodgers just turned to his bench and held up 5 fingers............and a few minutes later, sure enough............ A horrible, sickening feeling I'll never forget.

 

[mano-obe]

Started off very well then went off the boil and ended up playing some turgid stuff. Pretty much how Jose started and ended

That Bale goal at Upton Park was the best moment for me with AVB

 

[kremlyn]

I'm not sure you can judge him from his Spurs and Chelsea days, two clubs populated by utter shit heads or utterly shit players. Boring he may have been but he managed to get more points out of those players than he really should. You could argue that his management of Bale showed what he could do with decent players because Bale was our only decent player at the time.
Give him the players and he could win games - undefeated in the league and European cup winners with Porto. That's not something a fraud can do, it's not Roberto Di Matteo riding out 6 games. He then went and smashed the Russian league before eventually ruining himself by following the money to China.

He really wasn't shit, we were.

 

[Spartan Spurs]

Memories very similar to what previous posters have said.
But it was also AVB's choice of Gylfi Sigurdsson over VDV.
Yes Gylfi was younger & seemingly more durable yet VDV had that X factor that few possess.
To discard him so unceremoniously was quite surprising to me.

 

[JUSTINSIGNAL]

Memories very similar to what previous posters have said.
But it was also AVB's choice of Gylfi Sigurdsson over VDV.
Yes Gylfi was younger & seemingly more durable yet VDV had that X factor that few possess.
To discard him so unceremoniously was quite surprising to me.

He didn’t discard VDV. He told him he would have to fight for spot like every other player and VDV threw his toys out the pram - a decision he has since admitted to regretting.

 

[Spartan Spurs]

He didn’t discard VDV. He told him he would have to fight for spot like every other player and VDV threw his toys out the pram - a decision he has since admitted to regretting.

Coming in, AVB had made up his mind that Rafa didn't suit his style.
He bought Gylfi & made it clear to Rafa that he wasn't really in his plans.

“Andre Villas-Boas wasn’t the ideal coach for me. He bought Gylfi Sigurdsson and then told me he would be his new No.10. I found that a little bit strange considering what I’d achieved over the previous two years. I started the first match of the season on the subs’ bench, so when Hamburg approached me, I thought it was a nice opportunity to go back. But I shouldn’t have left Tottenham, though it’s always easy to say that with hindsight. I had some brilliant times during my second spell in Hamburg, but the fact that we were in the relegation play-off in the second and third seasons wasn’t good.

“Leaving Tottenham was not my best choice, but apart from that, there haven’t been too many big regrets during my career.”