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Tottenham set to offer manager's job to André Villas-Boas • Daniel Levy wants dynamic young coach to drive club forward • Villas-Boas has sought assurances about future of Luka Modric Tottenham Hotspur have held direct negotiations with André Villas-Boas and they are poised to offer him the manager's job. Tottenham officials met Villas‑Boas's agent in London last Friday and Saturday to explain what they were looking for in the successor to Harry Redknapp, who they sacked last Wednesday. But they have since accelerated the process by speaking directly to Villas-Boas. The 34-year-old Portuguese, who was dismissed by Chelsea in March, was initially unsure whether he was the Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy's first choice for the vacancy. He felt that Levy had other candidates in mind, which was true, with Everton's David Moyes numbering among them. But it has become clear that Villas‑Boas is the man that Levy wants to lead Tottenham into a new era. The sacking of Redknapp represented a gamble, as he had led the club to fourth-, fifth- and fourth-placed finishes in the Premier League in the past three seasons, only missing out on Champions League qualification last month when Chelsea beat Bayern Munich in the final of the competition. Villas-Boas knows that Levy's minimum requirement is to qualify for Europe's elite tournament. The chairman also wants to be challenging for the league title in the near future. Redknapp often said he thought "there was a championship in this club". It is a demanding brief and the jury remains out in some quarters over Villas‑Boas. He has plenty to prove after his ill-fated Chelsea tenure, when he failed to impose his will on the squad's strong personalities. It hurt his reputation that, after his dismissal, the team recovered to win the Champions League and FA Cup under Roberto Di Matteo. But Levy has come to view Villas-Boas as the dynamic young coach to drive the club forward. Villas-Boas and his representative have sought assurances about the future of Tottenham's best players, chief among them the midfielder Luka Modric, who has exited Euro 2012 with Croatia and is determined to be granted a big transfer this summer. Villas‑Boas tried to sign Modric when he was at Chelsea last summer, only for Levy to block the £40m proposal. It is unclear whether Levy will be able to hold on to Modric for another season, although he is empowered to hold the player to his contract, which has four years to run. He is adamant he would not sell Modric to Chelsea or Manchester United but he may be more receptive to a bid from Real Madrid, particularly if the sum on offer was upwards of £40m. Tottenham's new manager, though, will be granted a large transfer kitty to reshape the squad in his image, and it stands to be even larger if Modric were to leave. The priority area is centre-forward. The club are struggling to satisfy Emmanuel Adebayor's wage demands to make his loan move from Manchester City permanent; they have not taken up the option on Louis Saha. Jermain Defoe is the only established striker. Levy is keen to find a more senior role within the set-up for Tim Sherwood, the youth development squad coach. Sherwood survived the cull of Redknapp's backroom staff, which accounted for Kevin Bond, Joe Jordan and Clive Allen, because Levy considers him to be an asset to the club.

Sloth.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPthu1PDkCY

I think Henrique make a great Mod. Plus you don't have a Mod from South America!

Justin!!!!! Why????

Give him what he wants!

Just asking, nothing else.

I would not be surprise if SHM is back posting under another name.

Apparently he was banned before under the Beast name.

Spamming problem you say? Need a new Mod to help? For Spammers I would give them thumbs up their asses! And then banned them and re-direct them to Messi's underwear! http://img651.images...429/horleo9.jpg

Are you by any chance another account of the old SHM and beast? If so welcome back, until you get banned again!

Yeah I take both to be fair. Hazard takes Kalou place. Hulk take Anelka place, and Moses....Malouda place?

I say it again: Sometimes you must gamble.

If we had that mentality we would have never taking risk on players like Ivan, and would not be a great part of our team! Sometimes you must gamble. And giving the inflated prices today where a Henderson, Downing goes for so much, surely such a little amount is not bad?

This would be a good transfer for me. Less then 10 mill is a good option for a winger/striker. And since we got so much weak ass people in the team now, a muscle guy like Moses would give us a great option.

Or we can do a Benfica David Luiz type deal and give them one of our youngsters plus cash?

This is getting boring like the Hazard thing....which eventually nobody cared, cause he join us!

Roman guaranteeing stuff? Like AVB said he had the unconditional backing of the owner?

I know you guys miss that!

Is just that. Everything else are minors factor that add to the decision. But that will always be the number one reason!

I think it's all irrelevant of players wanting to come to a club because of history and all that nonsense. What it will always boiled down to is: 1. Chance to win trophies 2. Get payed good. As long as RM and Chelsea are in those spots any player would come. Because if it was due to history then a lot of people would choose to play for the "great" Liverpool. And as far as it stands, Liverpool are not able to give any of those 2 mentions.

Didn't you guys wanted Ricardo when he was younger and he came to Chelsea? You got him at the end of his career eventually.... Not to mention you and everyone and their momma wanted Drogba, but you could not had him!

I thought he did?

You got to ask why would Mourinho want Modric when they got a far bigger team then ours? FFS they got Sahin on the bench!!! Mourinho can make space for him, why can't we?

Lampard place. Simple as that!