Spursalot
Jimmy McCormick
My laptop works fine, it is five years old. As it still works does that mean i should not get a shiny new laptop that will work faster and better?
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My laptop works fine, it is five years old. As it still works does that mean i should not get a shiny new laptop that will work faster and better?
Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
You're taking such a short term view, very much like Harry. Where was the future in Redknapp? I don't think the board could take another summer of him seriously suggesting Joe Cole and Phil Neville to them, he then goes from one extreme to another and starts moaning to the media that we couldn't get Tevez
Harry's short term-ism got us more success than anyone else in the last couple of decades. His strength was signing experienced players for a pittance and getting more out of them than anyone had a right to expect. No reason why he couldn't have carried on doing that and taking the team to even greater success. Indeed that is what I would have fully expected of him for the coming season.
Spursalot
Jimmy McCormick
The people who had 'accepted the fact that harry had left and gotten over it'
Have not.
Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
Some people have short memories.
Jurgen the German
Erik Thorstvedt
With the same group of average players. If you need reminding of how highly we think of them, head on over to the Liverpool thread. Just days ago, people were laughing at the fact that they had 6 players in the England squad.
Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
Too right. I shall be very angry if AVB goes and fudges up like he did at Chelsea - AND SO WILL YOU.
Do you expect Liverpool to make no signings???????
Jurgen the German
Erik Thorstvedt
They haven't managed to the last 3 seasons. "solid players"? We are constantly ridiculing their fans for thinking they are a good team.
Spursalot
Jimmy McCormick
No, I won't be angry. I will try and understand why he has not succeeded and hope that the next manager is a better appointment (If this scenario comes to pass).
Jurgen the German
Erik Thorstvedt
Yeah of course they will. But do you think they will be able to sign better players than us? We've already stolen Sigurdsson from them!
Not at all.
I'm merely judging Harry by the same criteria by which we've been told we have judge AVB - the short term.
Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
Remind me, how many years did SAF take to win the League?
I've no idea. But they're a massive club and have financial clout.
And if Rodgers can find the right players for his system, who knows.......they could improve massively.
Spursalot
Jimmy McCormick
Mumorn
Vic Buckingham
6 years
Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
Which implies you had no faith in Harry, despite him getting us 4th 5th and 4th in successive seasons and every prospect of bettering that next season.
Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
Thank you.
1 - excellent man management - im sure Corluka, Bassong, Defoe, G.D.S etc etc would all have something to say about that - he was good at keeping the first XI motivated though for sure - but is that skill something that is exclusive to Harry Redknapp ? would the players at Porto who worked under AVB have the same things to say about him ? or could it be that when a winning team is performing well that everyone that is playing is generally happy ?
2 - this season we were playing some fantastic football in the first half of the season when morale was high and we were in full flow - after that, when we hit a bit of a wall ? not so much
the season before when we struggled to break down team after team - was that exciting attacking football ? or the season prior to that when route one to Crouch was utilized all too often ?
3 - clutching at straws there mate - where was his habit at winning prior to taking over Spurs ? is that a skill that a manager has ? i don't think so
so again i ask what makes him such an irreplaceable manager - what does he have that so few managers out there possess that means we have such little chance of stumbling upon another manager as good as him ?
i always maintained his genius was his simplicity and im sure he would agree - he himself says that football management is all about the players (90% i think he said) - pick a good balanced team and give them the freedom to play their football, the trouble was he had little to no plan b and had he had one we may have achieved more and i would have lauded him as much as some of you
there is every chance in the world another manager can come in and get this set of players performing to the same levels as last season - and then depending on whether Chelsea/Arsenal/Liverpool continue to perform as they have done this past year then there is no reason why we can't carry on the 4th/5th/4th that we achieved under HR
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Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
You make me laugh. Your comparing the resources at Harry had at his disposal to what SAF had at the time?