Villas-Boas blessed with a great squad
Frank Lampard has admitted that new Tottenham manager Andre Villas Boas has a great squad to work with, but has a big job on his hands to follow in the footsteps of Harry Redknapp.
The Portuguese coach has been installed as the new White Hart Lane boss, and has been given money to spend, with Gylfi Sigurdsson and Jan Vertonghen already signed this summer.
Chelsea midfielder Lampard feels his former trainer has a big job ahead of him in north London.
“AVB has inherited an exceptional squad of players,” Lampard confessed to The Sun.
“A squad that’s good enough to bring Champions League football and contend for the Premier League title. A team that’s played some terrific, thrilling attacking football and scored goals for fun.
“So AVB is a lucky man taking over at Spurs because the players are so very good.
“Admittedly that can be a double-edged sword, though, because Harry Redknapp will be an extremely tough act to follow.
“Harry lifted Spurs to an amazing level. The way he turned that club around was remarkable. They were at absolute rock bottom when Harry came in.
“Then all of a sudden they’re playing in the Champions League and competing at the very top. So he did an incredible job there and he definitely didn’t deserve to lose his job.
“That’s why I was really surprised when Harry left. He did wonders at Tottenham and I thought him leaving was a terrible shame,” the England international concluded.
By Gareth McKnight
July 9th, 2012
Lampard busy undermining right from the start … contemptible…
July 9th, 2012
what has it to do with lampard he should worry about terry and keep his nose out of tottenham business
July 9th, 2012
Fat Franks uncle Harry did all right at Tottenham and Fat Frank rebelled against AVB at Chavski….. Just the ramblings of a silly litle person trying to get an edge befoe the season begins.
July 9th, 2012
Since when did Frank Lampard’s view on Tottenham become necessary to enquire. The writer here is the person trying to stir up a bit of Cak. We don’t want his biased opinion nor do we appreciate anyone asking his opinion. FFC Newsdesk should become a little bit more educated as we are.
July 9th, 2012
Yes it does look like Lampard is getting busy. Harry had one of the best jobs in football but was still looking elsewhere for a better deal,real spurs fans know why Mr Levy had to do what he did Harry couldn’t stop talking nonsense a different opinion every day we all got sick of it.I think the future looks great.
July 9th, 2012
Yep. U are right Lampard…