I think he will do really well with Tottenham. He might actually get some support from the high ups and hopefully will be allowed to build a team that he is happy to use.
I genuinely don't think that the Chelsea job was his fault. Every other manager has said that Chelsea's dressing room is a nightmare to manage. I don't think for a second that Di Matteo will last the season with Chelsea and as soon as he tries to actually change the way Chelsea play, he will have the same issues.
Its quite sad how little players seem to care about their club when they don't particularly get on with the manager. The difference in attitude between the AVB reign and RDM was just night and day. They actually tried.
Good luck to Spurs and I think he will do very well for them.
Which managers have said the dressing room is awful, maybe I'm forgetting but most have said its fine. RDM was also brought in and was pushing AVB's system the whole time AVB was there, yet not a single player had a problem with RDM.
Doesn't that tell you something, two coaches pushing a system on the players that wasn't working(Terry in a stupendously high line, it was all completely the players fault that pushing a stupidly slow defence way up the pitch in a fast league with actual opposition didn't work), yet none of this insanely bad dressing room had a problem with RDM at all?
Likewise RDM did completely change the system, he had no time and was mid season and a knock out competition they organised the defence, made changes, the left and right wingers, and Torres and Drogba were happy to drop into left/right back and help defend when RDM asked them to?
The players weren't playing for AVB because AVB was a total **** and his ridiculously poor system was causing them to drop lots of points. Later in the season the players weren't playing for him at all, early in the season it was playing a ludicrously high but quite slow defence that cost them points, NOT the players lack of playing hard.
AS i said before though, on history AVB is a truly shocking appointment, but then, so is putting RDM in charge of Chelsea last year, and many other managerial appointments. If AVB learns what he did completely and utterly wrong at Chelsea and goes about it a different way, maybe he'll be good, maybe he'll try his big man routine and arbitrarily pick two well liked players to prove his power and for all intents and purposes fire them for no real reason. If he tries the later, he'll lose the squad, if he adapts, who knows. Saw not a single thing from Chelsea that suggested he'd do well, adapt to new system, no, adapt to new league, no, manage the players well, no, adapt existing players to his prefered system, no.
