After Spurs were thumped 5-0 at the weekend against Liverpool, Andre Villas-Boas was removed from his job as their manager. Apparently agreeing to leave "by mutual consent", Villas-Boas held crunch talks with Spurs' chairman Daniel Levy on Monday and walked out relieved of his duties. Spurs sold the likes of Gareth Bale, Clint Dempsey, Steven Caulker, Scott Parker and Tom Huddlestone in the summer and spent over £100 million on seven new players in Paulinho, Roberto Soldado, Erik Lamela, Etienne Capoue, Nacer Chadli, Christian Eriksen and Vlad Chiriches. However, Villas-Boas was yet to see the new team click and his dismissal was a direct result of that. Spurs are still in the League Cup (playing West Ham United this evening), FA Cup (which is yet to get underway for Premier League teams, of course) and the Europa League (having won all six of their group games, nonetheless), but their league form has been deemed below par. Spurs are currently seventh, meaning their season is by no means over, but the chairman and fans obviously expected more after such a massive outlay on players that were meant to improve the squad as a whole and Premier League results like the aforementioned 5-0 home defeat against Liverpool, a 3-0 home defeat to tonight's lowly opposition West Ham United and a 6-0 thrashing at Manchester City meant that Levy was left with no option but to part company with Villas-Boas. As a result, all of the current talk is about who will replace Villas-Boas in the Spurs hot-seat and whoever it is (Tim Sherwood has taken over temporarily) will need to prioritise some very specific aspects of the team's play and predicament. Here are five things the new Spurs manager should look to do...
