Adeus! Tottenham Hotspur sack manager Andre Villas-Boas
Andre Villas-Boas is sacked as Tottenham manager a day after their 5-0 home defeat to Liverpool. Villas-Boas becomes the fifth Premier League manager to lose his job this season.
The latest loss appears to have been the final straw for the White Hart Lane board, with Tottenham saying in a brief statement: “The club can announce that agreement has been reached with head coach, Andre Villas-Boas, for the termination of his services.
“The decision was by mutual consent and in the interests of all parties.”
Big spenders
Spurs are currently seventh in the table, two points ahead of Manchester United, and won their Europa League group with a 100 per cent record, scoring 15 goals and conceding just two in six games.
Villas-Boas also had a good record overall as Tottenham manager, averaging 1.83 points per league match, the highest of all Spurs bosses in the Premier League era.
Agreement has been reached with head coach, Andre Villas-Boas, for the termination of his services. Tottenham Hotspurs
The Portuguese manager did however spend heavily over the summer, to the tune of £108m, with seven new players coming in as the club re-invested Gareth Bale’s enormous transfer fee.
But a bright start in the Premier League was not maintained, and it appears the manner of the defeats by City and Liverpool proved too much for Spurs chairman Daniel Levy and the board.
After the humiliation by Liverpool last month, Villas-Boas had insisted that he would not quit.
The 36-year-old said: “The call to make that decision is not mine, because obviously I won’t resign and I’m not a quitter. The only thing I can do is work hard with the players to get them back on track.
“This is a top-four squad but in our Premier League form we are not there.”
For Villas-Boas it’s his second dismissal from a top-flight English club – he was sacked by Chelsea in March last year after just eight months as manager.