Rodgers: AVB can win the title for Spurs this season
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Brendan Rodgers: Andre Villas-Boas can win the title for Spurs this season
Brendan Rodgers has backed under-fire Spurs boss Andre-Villas Boas and insists Tottenham Hotspur can still win the Premier League this season.
Villas-Boas has been under increasing pressure since his side were thrashed 6-0 by Manchester City last month, and there have even been reports the White Hart Lane board have drawn up a short-list of potential replacements should they sack their Portuguese manager.
But Liverpool boss Rodgers, whose side travel to Spurs tomorrow afternoon, says such talk is nonsense and claims the Londoners are doing well to be where they are at this stage of the season given they signed so many new players in the summer.
People look at Spurs and question how theyve done but I think theyve done terrifically, he said.
They have a strong and deep squad and they are right up there in the league.
Brendan Rodgers has backed under-fire Spurs boss Andre-Villas Boas and insists Tottenham Hotspur can still win the Premier League this season.
Villas-Boas has been under increasing pressure since his side were thrashed 6-0 by Manchester City last month, and there have even been reports the White Hart Lane board have drawn up a short-list of potential replacements should they sack their Portuguese manager.
But Liverpool boss Rodgers, whose side travel to Spurs tomorrow afternoon, says such talk is nonsense and claims the Londoners are doing well to be where they are at this stage of the season given they signed so many new players in the summer.
People look at Spurs and question how theyve done but I think theyve done terrifically, he said.
They have a strong and deep squad and they are right up there in the league.
Rodgers: AVB can win the title for Spurs this seasonRoberto Soldado scored a hat-trick for Spurs against Anzhi Makhachkala this week (Picture: Reuters)
Everyone will look at Manchester City as having the outstanding squad but Tottenham will look at what they have spent and they will give themselves a chance of maybe winning the title.
Rodgers has also backed miss-firing striker Roberto Soldado to come good, and believes the strikers Europa League hat-trick against Anzhi Makhachkala could be a turning point Spaniards Tottenham career.
Soldado, a £26million summer signing from Valencia, has scored just four league goals so far this term but Rodgers expects the 28-year-old to have a much stronger second half of the season.
There is that adaptation period. They spent a lot of money bringing him in but even a player of that quality can take some time to settle in, added Rodgers.
He benefits in and around the box. I think his record over the last couple of years shows he scored once from outside the box but his hat-trick will give him a confidence.
Brendan Rodgers has backed under-fire Spurs boss Andre-Villas Boas and insists Tottenham Hotspur can still win the Premier League this season.
Villas-Boas has been under increasing pressure since his side were thrashed 6-0 by Manchester City last month, and there have even been reports the White Hart Lane board have drawn up a short-list of potential replacements should they sack their Portuguese manager.
But Liverpool boss Rodgers, whose side travel to Spurs tomorrow afternoon, says such talk is nonsense and claims the Londoners are doing well to be where they are at this stage of the season given they signed so many new players in the summer.
People look at Spurs and question how theyve done but I think theyve done terrifically, he said.
They have a strong and deep squad and they are right up there in the league.
Brendan Rodgers has backed under-fire Spurs boss Andre-Villas Boas and insists Tottenham Hotspur can still win the Premier League this season.
Villas-Boas has been under increasing pressure since his side were thrashed 6-0 by Manchester City last month, and there have even been reports the White Hart Lane board have drawn up a short-list of potential replacements should they sack their Portuguese manager.
But Liverpool boss Rodgers, whose side travel to Spurs tomorrow afternoon, says such talk is nonsense and claims the Londoners are doing well to be where they are at this stage of the season given they signed so many new players in the summer.
People look at Spurs and question how theyve done but I think theyve done terrifically, he said.
They have a strong and deep squad and they are right up there in the league.
Rodgers: AVB can win the title for Spurs this seasonRoberto Soldado scored a hat-trick for Spurs against Anzhi Makhachkala this week (Picture: Reuters)
Everyone will look at Manchester City as having the outstanding squad but Tottenham will look at what they have spent and they will give themselves a chance of maybe winning the title.
Rodgers has also backed miss-firing striker Roberto Soldado to come good, and believes the strikers Europa League hat-trick against Anzhi Makhachkala could be a turning point Spaniards Tottenham career.
Soldado, a £26million summer signing from Valencia, has scored just four league goals so far this term but Rodgers expects the 28-year-old to have a much stronger second half of the season.
There is that adaptation period. They spent a lot of money bringing him in but even a player of that quality can take some time to settle in, added Rodgers.
He benefits in and around the box. I think his record over the last couple of years shows he scored once from outside the box but his hat-trick will give him a confidence.
