Glenn Hoddle: I nearly went back to Spurs after Andre Villas-Boas sacking

 
21 March 2014

Glenn Hoddle has claimed he nearly became Tottenham manager for a second time after Andre Villas-Boas was sacked.

Hoddle was in charge of Spurs from 2001 until 2003 and has now suggested that he was offered the chance to succeed Villas-Boas, before Tim Sherwood was given the job until the end of the campaign shortly before Christmas.

Sherwood was sold by Tottenham during Hoddle’s time as manager and it is thought that the Spurs boss has been less than amused by Hoddle’s frequent remarks about the team during his time in charge. It will be interesting to see what he makes of the former England manager’s latest comments.

“I nearly went there this time round until the end of the season,” Hoddle told BBC London. “I said I was prepared to do that.

“I wouldn't have been prepared to do it for any other club apart from Tottenham because it's in my DNA. Although I've had great times at other clubs, there's just something in there about Tottenham and myself that goes back to when I was eight years old.

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“So if that was the case, and it nearly became the case, I would have been happy to go back, but they made their decision and they've moved on.”

Hoddle’s words contradict the insistence at Tottenham that Sherwood alone was offered the job after Villas-Boas was sacked in mid-December. Sherwood is still in the dark about whether he will be asked to carry on beyond the end of the season.

Speaking about Spurs’ seven signings, made at a cost of more than £100million, last summer, Hoddle added: “They haven’t really produced.”

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