For me I've never been this disillusioned as a fan. This 4th/5th every year back and forth is great. Most club would kill to have that problem. But we do it with total disregard for the long term. Even the medium term actually. I was so excited about AVB and the project. I thought it was the end of the 18 month manager cycle. I thought we were building a platform that would see us succeed for years to come. But 18 months in he was gone. Lied to about goals? Lost the fans? Lost the players? Whatever. He was out. Tim was in. We go on. We'll probably finish 5th. More Europa League. New players. Probably a new manager. Nothing changes.
We need to recreate our identity. Find a manager that can get us playing attractive winning football. Maybe make a proper push for a cup trophy, as the league will be beyond us in our current form. Once, can we back a manager and sacrifice the short term to build a platform for long term success?
Yep that why I was so annoyed when we got rid of Redknapp and got AVB, not that I liked Redknapp as a person just that we had an identity and it was a Spurs identity, we played the most exciting end to end football in the Prem and got praise from Fergie, Carragher, Rooney, just about everyone to be honest for the quick fun and successful football we put on show, 18 months later and we end up with a very defensive, IMO boring style of football that just didn't seem like a Spurs team at all.
In the last 2 years our sqaud has improved at least in depth/on paper but the football gets worse. I don't blame this on AVB and Sherwood but on Levy's erratic decision making. We seem to switch managers and players far to often, we fail to keep our real stars like the way other teams do and so we never have any continuity. It takes years normally to build a successful team and we keep rebuilding our club every season, how are we supposed to progress?
I personally feel that we should either keep Sherwood and give him 2-3 years to build a team or we bring in a world class manger like LvG or De Boer and give them 2-3 at a minimum, whoever we chose we let them have the final say on transfers as Levy seems to buy anyone even if the manager doesn't want them.
The worst option would be to sack Sherwood then get in another average manager, if Sherwood is an inexperienced average manager he at least knows the club, little point getting an experienced average manager who doesn't know Spurs or England for that matter. Our last 10-15 years is full of very average foreign managers who had one/two good seasons somewhere then fall flat under the pressure of our league/club.
If we give Sherwood a few years or my preference get LvG (if that's possible) and give them a while and final say of the transfers we will develop a style of football, whether we like that style is another matter but all this chopping and changing by Levy puts our ambitions on hold.
