Tottenham have sacked André Villas-Boas this morning after the club’s latest thrashing at the hands of Liverpool.
Villas-Boas briefly met with Spurs chiefs after the 5-0 home defeat against Liverpool on Sunday and he was summoned by chairman Daniel Levy at the club’s Enfield training ground on Monday morning.
Levy and Tottenham owner Joe Lewis deemed another heavy defeat unacceptable, less than a month after the team had been hit for six at Manchester City.
A Spurs statement read: “The club can announce that agreement has been reached with head coach Andre Villas-Boas for the termination of his services. The decision was by mutual consent and in the interests of all parties.”"We wish Andre well for the future. We shall make a further announcement in due course."
With Tottenham still only five points outside the top four, Levy and Lewis decided to act now to give the club the best possible chance of qualifying for a Champions League place.
Tottenham must now decide whether to appoint an interim boss such as Fabio Capello, Guus Hiddink or Glenn Hoddle, or immediately look for a new full-time boss. Swansea’s Michael Laudrup, Southampton’s Mauricio Pochettino and FC Basel’s Murat Yakin are all candidates.
Levy will work with director of football Franco Baldini to find the man they feel can succeed where Villas-Boas failed and get the best out of the current squad.
Levy sanctioned £110million of summer spending in a bid to secure a top-four place and Spurs will try to find a new forward for their next boss in the January transfer window.
Spurs are currently seventh in the table, two points ahead of Manchester United, and won their Europa League group with a 100 per cent record, scoring 15 goals and conceding just two in six games.
Villas-Boas also had a good record overall as Tottenham manager, averaging 1.83 points per league match, the highest of all Spurs bosses in the Premier League era.
The dismissal comes after former Spurs manager called on Tottenham to be patient with Villas-Boas.
"I think people are over-reacting too quickly," Redknapp told talkSPORT. "You lose a couple of games now and you're in trouble, it shouldn't be like that.
"You either think somebody is good at their job or not and when you appoint someone you should give them time and let them do the job.
"But it's far too early for people to start wanting to pull the plug on him, you've got to give him time and see what he can do."
Later on Monday Hiddink's agent ruled the Dutchman out of the running after confirming that he will taking over as Holland coach after the World Cup.
Cees van Nieuwenhuizen said: "I would be surprised if (Hiddink) went to Spurs. I could hardly imagine that happening.
"He has just signed a contract with Holland and he has also turned down offers from other countries recently to coach them at the World Cup so I wouldn't take any talk of Guus going to Tottenham seriously."
The bookmakers have installed Russia coach Capello as the early favourite.
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