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Tim Sherwood has not hidden the fact that he is an ambitious man and when Tottenham handed him an 18-month contract the current Spurs head coach must have thought the club were prepared to give him his chance.

But with strong rumours linking Tottenham to Netherlands manager Louis Van Gaal it seems that he was always seen as a temporary stop-gap, something which he came to realize in his comment about Daniel Levy's "silence being deafening."

"He can read the writing on the wall. We can read it. It's in neon lights," said The Mirror's Chief Football writer Martin Litpon who joined us on the line from Munich. 

"It's going to be Van Gaal if he wants to come in the summer. Sherwood won't be wanted, he knows what's coming on and he's got the hump. You can't really blame him for that."

Lipton is pretty sure that Spurs gave Sherwood an 18-month contract in order to end any speculation about the position and also give themselves time to seek out their long-term choice.

"They want Van Gaal which is probably going to happen because he's signaled that he wants to do it and Sherwood becomes more casualty and roadkill on the road of Tottenham's failures." 

And even if Sherwood can leapfrog Arsenal into the Top 4, he is "toast" according to Lipton.