Aaron Lennon has revealed that Andre Villas-Boas was his favourite among the managers he played under at Tottenham, admitting that the Portuguese coach possessed excellent man-management skills.
The Villas-Boas reign is not remembered fondly by many Spurs fans, with the former Chelsea boss replacing Harry Redknapp at the helm in 2012.
While Spurs had played some brave, attacking football under Redknapp, his replacement adopted a more disciplined system.
While results were not too bad in his first season at White Hart Lane, the team struggled after the departure of Gareth Bale, with Villas-Boas losing his job halfway into his second season at the club.
Given the brilliant Tottenham teams that Lennon had been part of during his nine and a half years at the club, one would have expected him to pick Martin Jol or Redknapp as his favourite gaffer to play under but the pacy winger chose Villas-Boas instead.
He told Off The Shelf Podcast: “I would say I had a few favourites, I loved Martin Jol, he was great the first time he got here, but I would say I played my best stuff under AVB.
“He was a fantastic man manager he was brilliant with me and you remember Daws, the lads absolutely loved him. He was a young manager and he put his arm around the XI. He’s probably nicked it as my favourite.”
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Quite a few of the players who loved working under Villas-Boas, including Lennon, Adebayor and Kaboul, did not seem to get along all that well with Pochettino. Perhaps that shows the broadly different approaches of those two managers.
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