Agreed. Good luck to him.

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I guess a decent win percentage counts for a lot.

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I was working in Portugal recently and my colleagues there really rated AVB. They could not understand why a manager with the highest percentage of league wins of any Tottenham manager and one who led Porto to be undefeated in a whole season was sacked by us.

Levy swapped Arry for the poo squatter.

Then he swapped the poo squatter for Timmeh.

No wonder you're in a mess.

who were zenits other amazing option then?

I'd love to see AVB's win percentage without those easy Europa games he played

I wish him well but his record wasn't that great against the 'big' clubs in the EPL (or West Ham). Not sure what his record was against the big 4 when he was at Chelsea but on balance I think he was probably out of his depth but not by much, unlike Sherwood while clearly at the shallow end of the football gene pool is still well out of his depth.

just doesnt have the mental strength of rodgers.

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I hope he does well there and will be keeping an eye on their results with him in charge.

Interested to see if he can make Levy look even more of a mug for getting rid of him when he did.

For some reason people want to dismiss AVB's achievements by saying he was carried by Gareth Bale. That's like saying:

Ancelotti is carried by Ronaldo
Fergie was carried by RVP last season
Guardila (when at Barcelona) was carried by Messi
Rogers is carried by Suarez

If a manager is going to get the blame for bad results/performances, then he must be credited for good results/performances. AVB set the team up last year to get the best out of Bale.

Whilst performances were not great this season due to the enormous turnaround of players, AVB should have been given time to get the best out of the likes of Eriksen - which I think he would have done (just as he did with Bale).

Nicnapp, my mate John the plumber retired to Portugal a few years ago and I agree, according to him the locals cannot understand why he has done so badly in the EPL. Its a mixture of pride and the boy done good syndrome. What none of them seem to appreciate though is he inherited a good Porto team including Hulk and Falcao that have continued to win the league without him and have had good success in other cups though I cant deny his record there was great. Why did he leave them at that moment then? Perhaps it was a record that could never be repeated and he got out knowing it was a one-off. Whichever way you look at it he failed at Chelsea, he failed at Spurs and while I wish him well, history appears to suggest he will fail at Zenit. They aren't too sure either hence a two year contract.

Carried by Bale last season, we finished lower than the previous season and would've finished about 7th or 8th if not for GB. We were awful second half of last season, carried that into this season & couldn't eeverse it - ugly style, grinding wins, humiliating defeats, ridiculous high line, isolating the only striker he had that could play in his system.

Sorry but how AVB keeps getting these big jobs is beyond me, he must give a mean presentation. I wasn't sorry to see him go, just sorry that Levy hadn't thought it trough properly and was reduced to replacing him with the janitor.

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I'm sorry, but Bale had played nowhere near his potential under Harry, apart from during the CL campaign and fleeting glimpses of it otherwise. I still maintain AVB deserves credit for turning Bale from a clearly talented but inconsistent performer into a game-changing player

ugly style, grinding wins, humiliating defeats, ridiculous high line, isolating the only striker he had that could play in his system

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Seems Ade is a and those boring, grinding wins were the best we could hope for seeing as we've sold all of top class, experienced players.

Levy's been found out, AVB got hung out to dry.

I think he gave Bale a lot more freedom to roam whatever that means.

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haha it worked

The_Con_Job

You have to remember that without the likes of Modric and VDV this ultimately gave Bale more opportunity to become such a great player for us as well.

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comment by THE ACE FACE (U18814)
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AVB allowed is to become a one man team, far too dependent on Bale. ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Not trying to have a go, but I don't understand what you mean. What was he meant to do to ensure that we didn't become a one man team? Buy other world class players so we didn't have to rely on Bale? He was dealing with the transfer budget he was given, which wasn't a lot last season, and with Modric having gone out the door there was literally no one left in the squad to take games by the scruff of the neck. He had no choice but to let Bale flourish and to utilise him as much as possible, because the rest of the squad he inherited/was allowed to buy wasn't exactly world class.