5 Reasons Why Spurs Were Wrong To Sack Andre Villas-Boas

4. AVB Was The Start Of A Long Term Project

The appointment of the former Chelsea boss was greeted with much excitement when he got the job in the summer of 2012. Despite his failure at the Blues, he was given the benefit of the doubt after the players at Stamford Bridge made his position untenable, and was seen, quite rightly, as the victim of player power at a club owned by a billionaire. It was believed that the job at Spurs would hand him a second chance at Premier League football, and in his first season he did well, finishing just one point behind bitter rivals Arsenal in the race for Champions League football. The 36-year-old was seen as the beginning of a long-term project at White Hart Lane, and this was backed up with the huge amount of money Daniel Levy afforded his reign at the club. So why get rid of him after just 16 games of a season where he had so many new players to deal with? Whilst it is true that some results didn't go their way and they were struggling to score goals, this will come in time, and all Levy needed to do was hold fire and surely AVB would have come good in the end? Long term projects are not dismantled after a season and a couple of months, and Spurs have once again been let down by the club's owners who see a lack of immediate success as a failure.