The Club can announce that agreement has been reached with Head Coach, Andre Villas-Boas, for the termination of his services.

The decision was by mutual consent and in the interests of all parties.

We wish Andre well for the future.We shall make a further announcement in due course.

http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/club-agrees-departure-of-andre-villas-boas-161213/

You make it sound as though anyone actually cared about what you say.

AVB should try other leagues or the championship to have experience. But he should have been given more time.

I agree with lodatz, they should have kept him.

Well, if you don't care what I say. Why do you keep derailing my threads? Better luck next season, eh. Don't get relegated now. Ta ta..

Tim Sherwood has been appointed as the full time manager on an 18 month contract:
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2528631/Tim-Sherwood-handed-Spurs-job-18-month-contract.html>

Surprising TBH, he has no top flight managerial experience. Might turn out quite risky.

@Fred

They're not that far off from top spot, actually. 6 points separate them from Liverpool and Arsenal. They still have the capability for being title contenders, but with Sherwood as their manager, will they really fulfill their potential? I don't think so. But we'll see. It's not impossible, and we might just end up with Spurs in the top 4 by the end of the season.

^^ It can still happen. We're still only 3 points off the Top 4, too.

And, ultimately, that's off the back of a draw against West Brom which we should have won. All this is the reason why we should have kept AVB until the end of the season. The defeats to City and Pool were humiliating, but they were not the end of the world. In City's case, well, they've destroyed practically everyone at home, and we contrived to make Liverpool look better than they are, what with only two of our recognized defenders fit for the game, and missing our wing-play.

Still, we got a good result today, and we're still in the running for a CL slot. Just have to hope someone ELSE starts losing form, for a change. ;)

^ Perhaps Chelsea? Mourinho seems intent on boring his way to the title this season. :P

^It didn't seem like that today though :P

I think the departure of AVB created a new dynamic, maybe if he stayed Tottenham could still be loosing.
And Liverpool deserved better than the 2 away losses specially against Man City, I dont know how you could get to those conclusions...

My prediction :

• Man City winners of EPL, as i said at the start of the season, Pellegrini will need time to put his style and tactics in his players mind, now they are seeming unstoppable by any EPL team. And they are actually providing the best EPL style of football.

• Arsenal : First contender, they strugled against big 4 teams but still dominating every other team in the league, they had the strongest schedjule and the stongest group in CL, they could have done better if they had more depth, for example, the Man Utd game was awful because all the team was tired.
  If they dont recruit any reinforcements this winter, i dont think they will win the trophy.

• Chelsea : They are not that far from 1st place and they are not at 100 pr cent yet, but they seem to be dangerous until the end, and i predict for them to be the English team who will go far in the CL. If there is any surprise at the end of the year, it will be from Chelsea.

• Liverpool : The few games i watched about them against big teams, i noticed 2 things : first thing is that Suare is the best EPL player and makes all defences suffer, has always 1 special back specially for him like Messi....
  the second thing is that Liverpool has not the same quality around Suarez, Coutinho is really not prepared yet to start in a big 4 squad, and Moses sturridge have not the same form of the start of the season.
  Too bad for Suarez who will probably quit this team at the end of the season. He made a lot of assists against City but still nobody to score and none to give him back assists...

IMO, the fourth place will be decided at the end of the season and the contenders are :

Liverpool ( if Suarez got help), Manchester United, Tottenham ( they have the squad to compete for and a new dynamic) and Everton, if they keep their actual level and results against big teams.

City had the chances to bury Liverpool. The result was definitely fair. if Suarez starts getting tired, then it'll be tough to maintain form. On their side though is the lack of European football, allowing them to rest more than, say Spurs, who are only 3 points behind. And there's no new dynamic at Spurs; we're playing much the same as we did before, just with Lennon back and with Adebayor playing in what had been Paulinho's role. And did anyone see Paulinho today? He was brilliant.

^ I cant agree Lodatz, Liverpool got a goal refused for no reason in that game, it could be 0-2 wich will completely change the game. Mignolet is in a horrible form, 2 goals he could saved against etoo and Negredo....
Suarez more than that gave 4 clear assists in that game, and almost scored, Jordan Henderson inadvertently stopped his team from equalizing in the 51st minute, blocking a Suarez shot while he was in an offside position.
The form of Suarez is still the same, but he faced 2 experimented coaches who made things complicated for him and the low quality of his teammates made it more complicated, but you will see at the end of the season.
My prediction fot the reds is that they will qualify for CL.

I'm not sure why you're obsessing on Liverpool in this thread, but it's really academic. City won, and could have won by more. Unless you're still just trying to argue about Suarez again, in which case you're still wrong, and you'll see by the end of the season, when he has about 30 goals. Seriously, I go on vacation for a couple of weeks and you're STILL trying to make that case? ;)

Anyhow, back to Tottenham. With the Top 8 being so tight, it would hardly take a miracle to get us back in the CL running, and if Arsenal knock us out of the FA Cup (which seems likely), it'll at least clear our schedule up a bit. Hell, at this point, I'd even be happy being knocked out of the EL to concentrate solely on the league. Worked for Arsenal last year, and is working for both Liverpool, Everton and Newcastle this year.

You are paranoaic mate :) , there is no case, im just saying what im thinking about it. For me, it was not a fair result but City were lucky in that game, thats all.
I have a neutral position and this can let me make neutral judgements, there is no emotion about the subject.
Saying that Liverpool are overrated is not true, even with those 2 away losses, its just about that...

And im sorry, i know that you liked AVB as your team coach, but it is good for your team to continue without him, or at least provocate players reaction due to the departure, we dont know much about internal issues, and i can only say by the atitude of players and the results that the dynamic has improved.

As a Barça fan, seeing Guardiolas departure was not a good idea, but we knew after that it was due to internal problems even if they have won trophees, its just to say that we dont see yet why exactly AVB left, but things are going well without him and its all what you need to know.

^EL is a poison chalice, if ever there was one, for any team who doesn't have a sugar daddy assembled squad depth.
PS - I think you might win the FA cup tie as we are starting to wrack up injuries and he might sit out some of our players. Plus, we haven't been brilliant this week. I hope I'm wrong though.

^ Agree, EL is not prestigeous enough and causes a lot of trouble to teams with short squad, Newcastle and Tottenham suffered a lot from that last year.

But is there any money to win in this competition ?

The second thing is that the only big rivals for Tottenham this year is Juventus and Napoli, and if you win EL you get your precious ticket for CL, knowing that Napoli and Juve will fight first for the title and they have no doubt about qualifiying to CL next year.

Ignoring EL by French teams made us lose 1 place in CL, wich is horrible for the league....

Europa League is a very dificult issue for Spurs....

@Tiki_taka

I actually think that the EPL is the most prestigious league in the world. There is no league more difficult to finish in the top 4 in the world. Perhaps, in terms of top 3, La Liga can make a case (since Real, Atletico, and Barca are just so much better than the other teams in La Liga). But for Top 4, or even Top 6, EPL is the stand out by far.

let @Dynastian figure it out for himself fellas.

@Footaholic

I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean. :/