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Mitchell Thomas
I blame Crapello. He got found out for what he is. A brick manager
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Harry Redknapp: The Aftermath
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Bullet
Colin Calderwood
That's the problem with Twitter
One Tweet can start an avalanche, and then everyone pipes up saying "OOOOH I HEARD THAT TOO!"
Well it's hardly surprising you heard it, is it?
I just heard it too, off markysimmo
That's how brickstorms spread, but it doesn't make it true
I could start a rumour now - Adebayor had a meeting with Inglethorpe and said he wanted to play NextGen rather than Prem
One Tweet can start an avalanche, and then everyone pipes up saying "OOOOH I HEARD THAT TOO!"
Well it's hardly surprising you heard it, is it?
I just heard it too, off markysimmo
That's how brickstorms spread, but it doesn't make it true
I could start a rumour now - Adebayor had a meeting with Inglethorpe and said he wanted to play NextGen rather than Prem
Johnny Ray
Øyvind Leonhardsen
I always thought this was Parker's own way of trying to motivate the team, telling them they've got a point to prove.
Still don't read anymore into it than that.
Still don't read anymore into it than that.
milo
Jack L. Jones
I agree
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
King of Norway
Gudni Bergsson
Harry didn't turn up for the meeting the players held behind his back?
I don't get it. Or is someone else "he"?
Destroy All Gooners
Stuart Nethercott
Football365 Winners & Losers Column
This is this weeks entry. Seems pretty spot on to me. What do others think?
Harry Redknapp
Those Tottenham fans thoroughly underwhelmed by the signings of Louis Saha and Ryan Nelsen and mildy perturbed by the loan exits of Steven Pienaar, Vedran Corluka and Sebastien Bassong could at least look at the Premier League table on the evening of January 31 after a routine victory over Wigan and see their team 11 points clear of fifth-placed Liverpool and a glorious 13 ahead of Arsenal (and, incidentally, Saudi Sportswashing Machine). Fast-forward less than three months - and just two more Premier League wins - and it becomes clear what an utter ****-up Harry Redknapp made of the January transfer window and his subsequent squad management.
Corluka's exit left Tottenham with just one specialist right-back, Pienaar's exit indirectly led to Luka Modric and Rafael van der Vaart being repeatedly played out of position, Saha's arrival led to a stubborn change to a previously successful shape and Nelsen's arrival has made absolutely no difference to anything at all. Oddly enough, a 34-year-old centre-back who's barely played for year has not provided an awful lot of cover for other ageing, injury-ravaged centre-backs.
Redknapp is very open about 'not doing tactics' but he doesn't do squad management either. Brad Friedel, Benoit Assou-Ekotto, Younes Kaboul, Kyle Walker, Scott Parker, Luka Modric, Gareth Bale and Emmanuel Adebayor have played pretty much every game for which they've been available and they look like spent forces. Meanwhile, Jermain Defoe has done an awful lot of heel-kicking while Pienaar and Niko Kranjcar have both discovered that Redknapp's man-management skills are only really effective if you're one of his men.
And then Redknapp has the nerve to complain about the paucity of options in his squad.
"I had no options forwards-wise on the bench, there was one striker fit and there was no one else to play with him. Really we had no cover at centre-half and no cover up front," he said. "No disrespect to the bench but it is nowhere near the sort of bench we had six to eight weeks ago."
That's kind of what happens when you allow good squad players to leave and bring in ageing players with a history of injury problems, Harry.
At the moment he looks neither the man for England nor the man for Tottenham, where the fans have completely lost faith. The chants of 'Harry for England' at Loftus Road on Saturday were followed by 'Gareth Bale...he plays on the left' as Redknapp brought on Aaron Lennon and immediately switched Bale (who he seems convinced is actually Ronaldo) to the right wing. He might claim that Tottenham have only played badly once in a run of nine games that has brought just one victory but the fans have been watching and they know different. They were awful at QPR but what's worrying is that it was entirely predictable awfulness.
Is it now becoming a possibility that Redknapp will have no job at all in June rather than a heart-wrenching choice?
This is this weeks entry. Seems pretty spot on to me. What do others think?
Harry Redknapp
Those Tottenham fans thoroughly underwhelmed by the signings of Louis Saha and Ryan Nelsen and mildy perturbed by the loan exits of Steven Pienaar, Vedran Corluka and Sebastien Bassong could at least look at the Premier League table on the evening of January 31 after a routine victory over Wigan and see their team 11 points clear of fifth-placed Liverpool and a glorious 13 ahead of Arsenal (and, incidentally, Saudi Sportswashing Machine). Fast-forward less than three months - and just two more Premier League wins - and it becomes clear what an utter ****-up Harry Redknapp made of the January transfer window and his subsequent squad management.
Corluka's exit left Tottenham with just one specialist right-back, Pienaar's exit indirectly led to Luka Modric and Rafael van der Vaart being repeatedly played out of position, Saha's arrival led to a stubborn change to a previously successful shape and Nelsen's arrival has made absolutely no difference to anything at all. Oddly enough, a 34-year-old centre-back who's barely played for year has not provided an awful lot of cover for other ageing, injury-ravaged centre-backs.
Redknapp is very open about 'not doing tactics' but he doesn't do squad management either. Brad Friedel, Benoit Assou-Ekotto, Younes Kaboul, Kyle Walker, Scott Parker, Luka Modric, Gareth Bale and Emmanuel Adebayor have played pretty much every game for which they've been available and they look like spent forces. Meanwhile, Jermain Defoe has done an awful lot of heel-kicking while Pienaar and Niko Kranjcar have both discovered that Redknapp's man-management skills are only really effective if you're one of his men.
And then Redknapp has the nerve to complain about the paucity of options in his squad.
"I had no options forwards-wise on the bench, there was one striker fit and there was no one else to play with him. Really we had no cover at centre-half and no cover up front," he said. "No disrespect to the bench but it is nowhere near the sort of bench we had six to eight weeks ago."
That's kind of what happens when you allow good squad players to leave and bring in ageing players with a history of injury problems, Harry.
At the moment he looks neither the man for England nor the man for Tottenham, where the fans have completely lost faith. The chants of 'Harry for England' at Loftus Road on Saturday were followed by 'Gareth Bale...he plays on the left' as Redknapp brought on Aaron Lennon and immediately switched Bale (who he seems convinced is actually Ronaldo) to the right wing. He might claim that Tottenham have only played badly once in a run of nine games that has brought just one victory but the fans have been watching and they know different. They were awful at QPR but what's worrying is that it was entirely predictable awfulness.
Is it now becoming a possibility that Redknapp will have no job at all in June rather than a heart-wrenching choice?
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
Spot on this
At the moment he looks neither the man for England nor the man for Tottenham, where the fans have completely lost faith. The chants of 'Harry for England' at Loftus Road on Saturday were followed by 'Gareth Bale...he plays on the left' as Redknapp brought on Aaron Lennon and immediately switched Bale (who he seems convinced is actually Ronaldo) to the right wing. He might claim that Tottenham have only played badly once in a run of nine games that has brought just one victory but the fans have been watching and they know different. They were awful at QPR but what's worrying is that it was entirely predictable awfulness.
At the moment he looks neither the man for England nor the man for Tottenham, where the fans have completely lost faith. The chants of 'Harry for England' at Loftus Road on Saturday were followed by 'Gareth Bale...he plays on the left' as Redknapp brought on Aaron Lennon and immediately switched Bale (who he seems convinced is actually Ronaldo) to the right wing. He might claim that Tottenham have only played badly once in a run of nine games that has brought just one victory but the fans have been watching and they know different. They were awful at QPR but what's worrying is that it was entirely predictable awfulness.
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
Quite amusing the lad who posted it on twitter is getting some crap
Who the fudge gave my number to The People newspaper!?!?! I'm not telling them brick! You cretins! Which of you did that!
"Hello It's Alex from the people, we believe you have information regarding a current situation at Spurs?" never have I hung up so fast!
I don't want it. I don't need the national press pestering me over something which can be easily resolved.
Who the fudge gave my number to The People newspaper!?!?! I'm not telling them brick! You cretins! Which of you did that!
"Hello It's Alex from the people, we believe you have information regarding a current situation at Spurs?" never have I hung up so fast!
I don't want it. I don't need the national press pestering me over something which can be easily resolved.
Bullet
Colin Calderwood
I agree with this, someone has got to man up and try to BEAT a man - you can't keep passing it around in front of them... someone has to drop a shoulder, beat someone, pull a defender out of their perfect shape and force the issue.
Bunch of pansies.
You've got to hold and give, but do it at the right time - you can be slow or fast, but you must get to the line, Bale.
I
indianspur
Guest
Mark Hughes said after the game that the way to play against Spurs was just to let them have the ball and then break up the play and hit them on the counter
when an opposing manager is not scared about conceding possession then you know you are in trouble
Redknapp-found out
when an opposing manager is not scared about conceding possession then you know you are in trouble
Redknapp-found out
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
No surprise at all. I started a thread earlier about the paralells with Ramos' final days...
It's game over when the dressing room is lost.
Inglethorpe in for Blackburn.
It's game over when the dressing room is lost.
Inglethorpe in for Blackburn.
steventhfc
Paul Mahorn
Hi lads, the person posting it is me.
I'm not naming names of who told me all but Windy a respected blogger has earned the same, from the same level of the club. Kind of regret backing Windy up with this now. Basically people were calling him a liar and I just wanted to back up that he wasn't and now people have given my numbers to journos and they're asking for quotes?
What is wrong with some people?
I'm not naming names of who told me all but Windy a respected blogger has earned the same, from the same level of the club. Kind of regret backing Windy up with this now. Basically people were calling him a liar and I just wanted to back up that he wasn't and now people have given my numbers to journos and they're asking for quotes?
What is wrong with some people?
Naughton16
Clive Wilson
haha, a brick manager with 13 league titles a European Cup and a 70% win rate with England. Perhaps England simply don't have good enough players to win a major tournament.
I
indianspur
Guest
id go with that, unfortunately Levy wants compensation money from the FA so he aint gonna be sacking Redknapp
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
?ú40m for CL qualification or ?ú3m from the FA?
Time for Levy to show some balls. It worked a treat for Chelsea.
milo
Jack L. Jones
I don't think that it is a case of Redknapp being found out, if QPR had tried the same tactic earlier in the season, we would have destroyed them. The problem is that the team are in a rotten run of from and have completely lost their confidence. I don't think that they have ever recovered from losing to Arsenal.