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.