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Andre Villas-Boas has gone from Spurs and it seems to be unclear who had ­responsibility for bringing in the players.

He seemed to be suggesting in his final press conference that some of the players signed in the summer were not his choices.

But, whatever the situation was, he was there before Franco Baldini came in. Whatever terms and conditions he agreed when he became manager would have carried on.

So he would have been in the same position as he was last year when the players signed did well for the north Londoners. Nothing had changed.

Even if the players brought in during the summer were not his first choices, you don’t say they were not.

Once a player comes in through that door, he becomes your player, he becomes your responsibility as a manager.

People may say Spurs never got over losing Gareth Bale in the summer, but, if a club comes in and offers you that amount of money for one of your players, you can’t criticise the football club for taking it.

The problem you’ve then got is trying to find a replacement and you could never replace Bale, like for like.

That’s been Spurs’ problem. Roberto Soldado came in and hasn’t really done it in the Premier League. Some of the rest of them are taking a bit of time to settle too.

It’s never easy when you sign seven or eight new players. It takes time for them to get to know each other.

But, apart from three ­horrendous results, Spurs haven’t been that bad and Villas-Boas wasn’t sacked because of a ­catastrophic run.

They’re through in the Europa League, had reached the quarter-finals of the Capital One Cup and were sitting seventh in the league.

It was losing 3-0 at home to West Ham, 6-0 at Man City and then 5-0 at home to Liverpool which did it for Villas-Boas.

I didn’t see the West Ham game, but I saw the City and Liverpool ones – and we witnessed phenomenal displays from the winning teams.

As good as those performances were, Spurs have looked at their own players and felt Villas-Boas could have done better.

I don’t know who they will bring in, but I do know that, in Tim Sherwood, they have a decent football person to look after things.

Tim was my captain at Blackburn when we won the Premier League and knows his football.

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