I was recently looking at Andre Villas Boas' impressive current results at Zenit in Russia, with an outstanding 80% win ratio and just two losses in 25 games, and then I saw his statistics during his time at Spurs. What came to me as an oddity was that his statistics for Tottenham are actually, at least in terms of numbers, the best of any manager in the past 10+ years! I am using Wikipedia numbers, which may be inaccurate but it does illustrate my point. In chronological order, most recent first:
Mauricio Pochettino ||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 011 | 45.45% | 4/2
Tim Sherwood ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 028 | 50.00% | 4/10
André Villas-Boas ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 080 | 55.00% | 20/16
Harry Redknapp |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 198 | 49.49% | 50/50
Juande Ramos |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 054 | 38.89% | 16/17
Clive Allen |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 004 | 50.00% | 0/2
Martin Jol ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 148 | 45.27% | 38/43
Jacques Santini |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 013 | 38.46% | 4/4
Glenn Hoddle ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 104 | 39.42% | 18/45
KEY 1: NUMBER OF GAMES; % OF GAMES WON; DRAW TO LOSS RATIO.
As you can see, AVB does not only have the best win ratio of all (at least 5% better than everyone else), but also the best draw to loss ratio of all except Pochettino. Yet, AVB's stint at Spurs was deemed by most a disappointment, perhaps influenced by his previous unimpressive career at Chelsea. In retrospect, do you think AVB was a good choice at the time? Could he have done things differently, and if so, what were his faults?