Tim Sherwood says everyone criticises player Tottenham let go, but every manager picks him

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Ange Postecoglou is still trying to get warm in his seat at Tottenham Hotspur after joining from Celtic in the summer.

It’s fair to say that it has been an eventful eight or so months for the Greek-born Australian.

From watching Harry Kane leave days before the season started to that crazy injury and suspension-hit game against Chelsea.

It has all gone off for the new Tottenham boss, but there has been one common theme, he has done it his way and his way only.

That includes who he does or doesn’t select for his team, given his unique style, you have to be brave to defend such open spaces, especially if you are the back four.

That’s a reason why Eric Dier was booted out, Ange Postecoglou simply wasn’t having him, even playing fullbacks at centre-back when Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven were unavailable.

Since then, the Englishman has joined Bayern Munich where Tim Sherwood spoke about how he is now ‘keeping out’ Dayot Upamecano and Kim Min-jae from Thomas Tuchel’s starting XI, as he told Soccer Special on Sky Sports (23/03/24 at 2:15 pm).

What’s even more interesting is that Tim Sherwood suggested that ‘we all like to criticise Eric Dier’, but he thinks that ‘whatever manager manages him, plays him’.

That’s not strictly true because the man in Spurs’ dugout wasn’t having him, either way, he is now a regular for Bayern Munich.

Life after Tottenham for Eric Dier

“He’s keeping out Upamecano and Kim,” said Sherwood. “He’s keeping them out of the team.

“We all like to criticise Eric Dier. Whatever manager manages him, plays him. It says an awful lot.”

Harry Kane and Eric Dier

Tottenham’s all-time leading goalscorer left to win trophies, it seems as though that might not happen.

Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen are heading for the title, but there is still a chance to win the Champions League.

It’s the small matter of Bayern facing Arsenal in the quarter-finals. Kane has a very good record against the Gunners.

You can bet your bottom dollar that many Spurs fans will be cheering their former players on here because the last thing they want is to see Arsenal in the semi-finals of the Champions League.