Looking back over Tim Sherwood’s 20 game reign I would like to point out several things, but most importantly is that unfocused passion is no replacement for Experience (which has been highlighted by Tim).
His win ratio has now already dropped to 55%. When you have played so few games you cannot shoot your mouth off about how great your record is. Come next Sunday I expect his win ratio to drop to 52% (as I can see Tim messing up the final game as he has the small time he has been in charge). If Tim wins he will have a win ratio of 57% (but Tim its only been 21 games come next weekend!!!)
You cannot judge a manager’s performance on 21 games, but you can assess his worth.
Whilst being in charge at Tottenham Tim has had 5 difficult games to deal with in the Premier league. First was Utd away (a 2-1 win), however difficulty is assessed on history not recent form (so maybe not such a hard game). The other 4 games he lost! He boasts his worth by losing 5-1 to City (at home!), then two 4-0 defeats away (against Chelsea and Liverpool) and a hard fought 1-0 defeat at home to Arsenal. AVB had far more difficult games compared to Tim. Arsenal away we lost 1-0, Chelsea at home 1-1, Everton 0-0 , City away 6-0, Liverpool home 0-5. AVB was much better at the difficult games than Sherwood. Against the big teams Tim has a dreadful record and in Europe he was far worse with 2 losses a draw and a win (one of those losses was to FC Dnipro!).
My point is that we were moaning about AVB, he would not have got us relegated and Tim is likely to have us finishing in 7th, which is our worst finish since 2009 (when we finished 8th), so there was no point in Tim even coming in.
After coming in as manager Tim made it very clear that he did not need to buy a single player. Whether you are told to say this as manager or not you don’t say it if it’s not true, so this demonstrates that from the start Tim was either stupid or weak.
Sherwood's worth is very low and whether the excuse is a lack of experience I don’t really care, but to criticize an entire squad when things don’t go your way shows a worthless manager. He blamed his poor tactics and team selection on the squad? You don’t blame poor performances on the fact that it’s not your squad! How dare he do that when he originally stated he didnt need new players. He is the most contradictive manager I have ever known. He says he has the players working hard to recover after HUGE losses, but never thinks to review the mistakes to learn from them. He saw the HUGE mistake made by AVB on Ade, but yet he is managing to make the same mistakes by singling out players and dropping them as AVB did (but worse more than one player).
Looking at the history of what will only be a 21 game reign Tim will say that he can hold his head up high with a win ratio that will finish between 52 and 57%, but he has made a mockery of the club and himself. Immaturity is always going to be used as his excuse and all the pundits are behind him as he English, but ask yourself this; Would they be behind him if he was Spanish or French? Of course not they would see him for what he is, lucky, contradictive and tactically inept.
My change in stance over Tim from being he is just young and will learn to he is worthless is simple, no respect for his position as manager, no respect for the club with public childish displays and no respect for football in general as he refuses to learn form his mistakes.
Anyone that wishes to argue this point we have dropped an easy 15 points under Tim (4 of those points were from West Brom!).
Roll on the closed season and roll on a manager that has respect for his team, the club and more importantly the fans.
Who will be next? Jesus I would take Gross at the moment. However in all seriousness De Boer is likely to be the best option for us and anyone that can win back to back titles over 4 years well it says it all.
COYS!!!