Only a miracle worker could have succeeded at Spurs
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Big Sam: AVB faced impossible task
SAM ALLARDYCE believes Andre Villas-Boas had an impossible task at Tottenham and only a miracle worker could have succeeded.
The Portuguese boss was sacked yesterday after Sundays embarrassing 5-0 home defeat to Liverpool.
Big Sam has been critical of AVB this season but was more sympathetic ahead of the Hammers Capital One Cup clash with Spurs on Wednesday.
Villas-Boas signed a host of new players in the summer to off-set the loss of Gareth Bale to Real Madrid.
But Allardyce reckons Spurs should not have expected instant success from their new-look squad.
He said: It was a surprise for me because of the situation Tottenham arrived in at the start of the season in terms of bringing new players in.
I think when you are in a transitional period of that nature and that size with so many new faces, it is virtually impossible to get consistency.
We saw that with Paolo Di Canio and Steve Bruce before him at Sunderland, who had to make eight or nine changes.
To get the team playing together and understanding each other in such a short period of time is nearly impossible.
I think the fruition of the change around at Tottenham will come next season, rather than this season.
You would have to be a miracle worker to get everyone functioning to the best of their capabilities when they have just arrived from foreign countries and cultures in a league that they have never played in before.
Theres a lack of patience in the game today that we all know why theres £70million in TV money at stake.
Allardyce himself has been under pressure with West Ham flirting with the relegation zone all season.
But he added: I dont fear for my job. When you sit as a senior manager, you know that becomes just something that you have to face.
Theres always going to be a time when theres a difficult time.
Its my responsibility to manage the players and manage the squad through that and make sure you bring back stability.
My particular situation is that it will ease and it will get better, as long as we get our injured players fit.
The communication between the board of directors and myself is clear and precise.
Im not saying being sacked wouldnt happen but we are being supported in January with getting new players.
We need to get the players back from injury so we have a squad that even before Andy Carroll joined, was a very good squad.
I worry more about my team than I do about my own situation.
SAM ALLARDYCE believes Andre Villas-Boas had an impossible task at Tottenham and only a miracle worker could have succeeded.
The Portuguese boss was sacked yesterday after Sundays embarrassing 5-0 home defeat to Liverpool.
Big Sam has been critical of AVB this season but was more sympathetic ahead of the Hammers Capital One Cup clash with Spurs on Wednesday.
Villas-Boas signed a host of new players in the summer to off-set the loss of Gareth Bale to Real Madrid.
But Allardyce reckons Spurs should not have expected instant success from their new-look squad.
He said: It was a surprise for me because of the situation Tottenham arrived in at the start of the season in terms of bringing new players in.
I think when you are in a transitional period of that nature and that size with so many new faces, it is virtually impossible to get consistency.
We saw that with Paolo Di Canio and Steve Bruce before him at Sunderland, who had to make eight or nine changes.
To get the team playing together and understanding each other in such a short period of time is nearly impossible.
I think the fruition of the change around at Tottenham will come next season, rather than this season.
You would have to be a miracle worker to get everyone functioning to the best of their capabilities when they have just arrived from foreign countries and cultures in a league that they have never played in before.
Theres a lack of patience in the game today that we all know why theres £70million in TV money at stake.
Allardyce himself has been under pressure with West Ham flirting with the relegation zone all season.
But he added: I dont fear for my job. When you sit as a senior manager, you know that becomes just something that you have to face.
Theres always going to be a time when theres a difficult time.
Its my responsibility to manage the players and manage the squad through that and make sure you bring back stability.
My particular situation is that it will ease and it will get better, as long as we get our injured players fit.
The communication between the board of directors and myself is clear and precise.
Im not saying being sacked wouldnt happen but we are being supported in January with getting new players.
We need to get the players back from injury so we have a squad that even before Andy Carroll joined, was a very good squad.
I worry more about my team than I do about my own situation.
