Tim Sherwood says Tottenham's ambitions are unrealistic.
Spurs ended their Premier League campaign in sixth place, once again missing out on the coveted Champions League places, and Sherwood, who had taken over from Andre Villas-Boas as manager in December, was sacked as a result.
"At the beginning of the season the aim was to be in the top four and it always is for Tottenham," he told Sky Sports' Goals on Sunday programme.
"But when you actually analyse the season, taking out Gareth Bale with 21 goals, Jermain Defoe with 10 Premier League goals, Clint Dempsey with seven and replacing it with a very good goalscorer in Roberto Soldado who has never played in the competition before and six other players who'd never played in the competition before, realistically the expectation of finishing in the top four was far too great.
"To actually finish on 69 points, just one win short of our record number of points of 72, which we finished with last season, without one of the best players in the world in Gareth Bale, it wasn't a bad season."
