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HUGHTON BACKS AVB

HUGHTON BACKS AVB

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The Norwich city manager Chris Hughton has said that he expects the Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas to be successful in the future, and has said that the club should be giving the Portuguese more time than his former club Chelsea. The Portuguese manager was recently brought to the Premier league by Chelsea last season. He did not have the best of starts to the life in English football after he was sacked less than a few months in charge of Chelsea. He was accused of trying to change things too rapidly at the club, while many criticised his man management skills as well.

It has been many months since Andre Villas-Boas last tasted success in the Premier league. He was expected to be a major arrival at the club in the summer, but he has started the new Premier league season with three consecutive matches without any victory. Tottenham’s latest disappointment came in the 1-1 draw with Norwich during the weekend. This fixture was a source of merry for the Norwich fans. Chris Hughton did an excellent job with Birmingham last season, while he has been doing extremely brilliant task this time around as well.

“I’m sure he will be very successful. He’s a very good manager but when you are at a club like Tottenham, expectations are always high. I took over from a very successful manager after three very good years but you have to try to instill something different. Either a different voice or playing style. I’ve tried to improve the squad without taking away all the good things of the last few seasons,” said the Norwich manager Hughton in a recent interview. He is also said that Tottenham would struggle a little due to the loss of players like Luka Modric, who have been extremely influential in the last few seasons.

BE MORE GREEDY

BE MORE GREEDY

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Norwich city manager Chris Hughton has said that the strikers he has at the club should be more greedy in front of goal in order to score more goals. Chris Hughton was left frustrated after the 0-0 draw with Championship club Hull city recently.

Only a few days remaining before the start of the new Premier league season and Chris Hughton has said that the players should improve a lot in terms of goalscoring if they are to achieve the heights of last season. They will play in the final pre-season match of the campaign against German club Borussia Moenchengladbach, before starting their proper Norwich City fixtures on August 18th.

Chris Hughton has summarized the pre-season for the club by saying that it has been extremely solid only for the lack of a few more goals from the strikers. However, he also admitted the fact that his strikers will not be able to score a lot of goals if they are not greedy in front of goal. It is often said that players should not be greedy and that they should always look towards putting the team in front, but Chris Hughton has said that it is important for the strikers to be in and amongst goals. Norwich will be beginning the new season on the road against Fulham.

“An area we’d like to improve on over this pre-season period is our goals tally. We looked very solid as a unit, got into some good areas but it would have been nice to see a couple of goals. It’s perhaps just being a little bit more decisive, making that clinical pass, and being a little bit more greedy in front of goal. You want to go into that game making sure you show some of the qualities you’d like to take into the season,” said the former Birmingham city manager ahead of the Borussia Moenchengladbach match.