Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes Andre Villas-Boas needed more time at Tottenham Hotspur, especially after signing seven new players in the Summer.
Wenger, who has now seen off nine Spurs managers since his 1996 arrival at Arsenal, said at the beginning of the season that it will be tough for all of the new faces at White Hart Lane to settle quickly, but unfortunately for Villas-Boas, that has cost him his job in London for the second time.
After being sacked by Chelsea, Boas then took the hot-seat for Tottenham, but only lasted just over a year, and Wenger has given his sympathy to the Portuguese manager, claiming that he needed more time to gel the players together.
Wenger said: ‘You need time, yes.
‘Look, when I said to you at the beginning of the season that when you sign more than three players you take a technical risk, you were all laughing at me, but it is a reality.’
‘If you look purely at the mathematical problem, yes (it is a surprise), because he has the highest percentage rate of wins historically at the club.
‘Is it an internal problem with the relationship with his chairman or with the board? I don’t know. Is it an emotional reaction to a big defeat at home? I hope not because that would not be a good sign.’
‘I sympathise with everyone because you need to be a manager to know how much you suffer, you know how many sleepless nights are behind every manager and how much everybody wants to win.
‘Of course you feel sympathy for people who lose their job.’
Written by Alex Batt – @AlexBatt – @AlexsArticles
