Spurs New Manager: 10 Replacements For Tim Sherwood

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club today made the unsurprising announcement that boss Tim Sherwood had parted company with the club. The move had long been expected - not least by Sherwood himself, who has been very vocal about his fragile position - and sees Spurs looking for a new manager, starting immediately. Sherwood only took over at Spurs in December, when former boss Andre Villas-Boas was dismissed for an underwhelming first half of the season. Sherwood went on to attain the highest win percentage of any Spurs manager in the Premier League era, but it was only enough to finish sixth in the final table and he was also knocked out of every cup competition Spurs were involved in. He was given an eighteen month contract, but very few people truly believed he would last that long. Club Chairman Daniel Levy made the following statement to accompany Sherwood's dismissal on the official Spurs website:

We appointed Tim mid-season as someone who knew both the players and the Club. We agreed an 18-month contract with a break clause at the end of the season and we have now exercised that option. Since appointing Tim as Assistant First Team Coach in 2008 and then as Technical Co-ordinator in 2010 and Head of Football Development in 2012, we have been supportive of him during football management changes throughout that period. On behalf of the Club, I should like to state our thanks for all his efforts during his years with us. We wish him great success in his managerial career. Moving forward, now the season is over, we shall embark on the process of finding a new Head Coach. We have a talented squad and exciting young players coming through. We need to build on this season, develop our potential and inspire the kind of performances that we associate with our great Club.

A number of names have been linked to the club and some of those spoke publicly about the possibility of managing Spurs during Sherwood's reign - which upset him somewhat - and those names, along with some other obvious candidates (given their links with Spurs or their current situations), will be among the favourites to take the role. In this article, we'll take a look at ten possible replacements for the former Blackburn Rovers and Spurs midfielder. Here are ten potential replacements for Tim Sherwood at Tottenham Hotspur Football Club...