Andre Villas-Boas’s time in charge of Tottenham Hotspur
came to an end on Monday morning when he told Chairman Daniel Levy and
technical director Franco Baldini that he would not select Emmanuel Adebayor,
despite his side’s chronic lack of goals.
The three men had met at White Hart Lane in the immediate
aftermath of the 5-0 defeat to Liverpool on Sunday night and agreed to meet
again the following morning. In the course of their conversation on Monday it
was intimated to Villas-Boas that he might wish to try a different, more
attacking approach to solve the failure to score more than 15 goals in 16
league games.
Although Adebayor’s name was not mentioned by either Levy
or Baldini, the Portuguese head coach took it to be a suggestion that he should
recall the Togolese striker. He said that there would be no possibility of him
recalling the striker, who has played just 45 minutes this season – the second
half of the 6-0 defeat to Manchester City.
That was the tipping point for Levy to take the decision
to sack the 36-year-old head coach.
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