That maybe true but not sure if some of his words and actions really helped his cause along the way. Didn't help himself really. And as for Sherwood having the highest PL win % in history, that can be somewhat misleading. Yes, the % is high but if you look closer, he only really got the results against the smaller sides and got horribly found out in more ways than one in the big defeats to us, City, Liverpool. and somewhat narrower margin to Arsenal (can even throw in Benfica into the equation). If anything, he just let the team a tad more loose (against smaller teams) than they were under AVB but still rubbish against the bigger sides, a level and teams that they want to be at and beat.