ADEBAYOR OUT TO PROVE AVB HAS GOT IT WRONG, YET AGAIN!

Less than a week after sacking AVB, in my opinion rightly for being too stubborn to his failed ideals, Emanuel Adebayor who was ostracised by the former Spurs manager has come back to life. From the onset it was all about the Togo striker. AVB had refused to call back the Togo striker who has a proven track record of scoring goals for various clubs at the top level.

Emmanuel Adebayor -Tottenham Hotspurs

The list of the clubs Adebayor has played for and proved himself included but not limited to Arsenal, Manchester City and Real Madrid. 

So it was bizarre and lack of professional judgement on the part of AVB not to recall him when he needed goals to salvage his own skin. Some years back Fabio Capello, then as Real Madrid manager, fall out with David Beckham because the latter had signed a new contract with LA Galaxy with the intention of leaving Real Madrid at the end of the season. He stopped playing the winger. However, when he realised that, he needed the man (David Beckham) to save his job and reputation, he recalled him. As a seasoned manager of the beautiful game, this kind of precedence should have been known to the AVB and serve as a lesson that, the interest of the club comes first. 

The young manager did not learn anything from his Chelsea days where he side lined experienced campaigners of the club in favour of his new younger signings. It backfired spectacularly and he was fired. The very players he was bent on ending their careers lifted the Champions League trophy in his absence. 

If the result of today’s game is anything to by, history will repeat itself again and Adebayor would become the hero of Spurs while AVB would be watching from afar. By the look of things, the two goals Adebayor scored today is just the beginning of good things for Spurs and life after AVB.

Andres Villas Boas was the architect of his own downfall in Tottenham

It wasn’t the sale of Gareth Bale that spells the end of AVB. It was AVB that spells the end of his reign at Spurs. The fact that AVB is a poor man manager is not lost all those who have followed his spell at Chelsea. AVB is ruthless when it comes to dealing with the players he did not think fit to be in his squad. His dealing with players is either all nothing. Either you are in or you are out. Look at the players he let go or ostracise within his short reign at spurs. Defoe, Adebayor, Huddlestone etc. the list is endless. In their place he blew the hundred million pounds bounty he received from real Madrid for the sale of Gareth Bale on players that do not live to their high billing.

Andres Villas Boas

At Chelsea, AVB started on with similar policies of retiring and or eliminating the veterans of the club he met. Sources close to Tottenham Hotspurs indicated that, the chairman expected AVB to give Adebayor a chance given the lack of goals from the strikers he had been playing so far. But the Portuguese refused. So after the thrashing they received in the hands of Liverpool in front of their home crowed, there was no way AVB should be allowed to continue his foolhardy methods.

That Andros Townsend, the promising young lad of the England didn’t start the game against Liverpool was also a decision that didn’t go well with the management of the Club. I hope AVB would learn from this and approach the next chance he would get to manage a top notch club differently. There is no doubt that, the young manager has a lot of potential but he is lacking woefully in man management.
In the end analysis, Daniel Levy acted in the best interest of the club and I believe it was a right call. You cannot lose matches against clubs that you are supposed to be competing with and yet refused to acknowledge the need for change in approach. So AVB was the architect of his own downfall as previously in Chelsea.