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Harry Redknapp: The Aftermath
- Thread starter mick cooper
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Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
The fact that Redknapp has increased our wage bill by 50% with his oldies is one of the reasons we have no money for transfers any more.
Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
Plus Coulibaly (sp?), Townsend, Naughton, Caulker - all young, exciting prospects that could break-through in the next couple of seasons.
Spursalot
Jimmy McCormick
Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
Oh you do know how to make me laugh GB! You know perfectly well that's mostly down to Adebayor, Modric, Bale and VdV. That plus the season we were in the CL and HAD to increase wages to retain players.
DHSF
Les Ferdinand
Gutter
That is so not true.
The two are separate budgets. One budget is for wages and the other is for transfers - these two do not mix. So they can mix but only Levy can authorise that - I doubt he will have authorised any transfers between the two budgets. Simply because one is recurring expenditure the other is not.
That's simply not true.
Our wages increased significantly last season due to player bonuses from our CL campaign. Our income increased massively as well. We invested heavily when Redknapp took over to get us back on track (note the high amortisation in recent years). As stated by Levy at the time, we cannot spend that much money every season. We might not have ?ú40 million in cash laying around, no businesses do, but when the right players come along we will spend, most likely with short term bank loans.
a list of permanent signings made since Redknapp took over :
Scott Parker, Louis Saha, Brad Friedel, Ryan Nelsen
Van der Vaart, Sandro, Pienaar, Gallas
Crouch, Bassong, Kaboul, Kyle Walker, Naughton, Krancjar, Jimmy Walker, Gudjonson
Keane, Defoe, Palacios, Corluka, Chimbonda, Cudicini
what can we read in to Redknapps transfer strategy from those 22 players ?
firstly i would give him credit for signing dependable players to balance a lop sided yet talented squad of players when it was needed after his arrival. but since then ?
there has been little focus on youth, only 3 players (Walker,Naughton & Sandro) are what id consider as players signed with a view to the future, there is a clear preference to signing older players who command big wages as back up options and he seems to rely solely on players with experience of the premier league.
so far, based on his activity in the transfer market, i would say he doesn't plan beyond the next season or two and relies too much on quick fix solutions. id say that possibly he is limited in respects to spotting emerging talent from abroad and also adding in to the mix his indecisiveness over the Suarez and Hunterlaar deals he is lacking confidence at buying 'top' players for this caliber of team
he has done well here no doubt - but i have grave concerns that IF the talent which was here when he arrived was to be sold on - would he be able to replace them adequately ?
do you have faith that he could replace the 'Top' players in our side ? If so what do you base that on ?
do you think he is bringing in enough young talent for the years to come ?
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mick cooper
Neil Sullivan
okayyyy
signed on a free transfer - tbf i was just copying from a website
come on Mick, all this time you've been asking me to back up my opinions and now ive gone and done it all you can do is pick out the above with a sarcy comment !
Modric THFC
Jimmy McCormick
That's simply not true.
Our wages increased significantly last season due to player bonuses from our CL campaign. Our income increased massively as well. We invested heavily when Redknapp took over to get us back on track (note the high amortisation in recent years). As stated by Levy at the time, we cannot spend that much money every season. We might not have ?ú40 million in cash laying around, no businesses do, but when the right players come along we will spend, most likely with short term bank loans.
No one knows how much of that 24m jump is bonuses.
It seems ridiculous trying to get in the competition if the money is instantly fudged down the drain in player bonuses.
Spursalot
Jimmy McCormick
That's not including match day incomes, which would probably be pretty high with a sell out stadium in every match we held at WHL.
Even if that 24 million was all spent on bonuses, it's likely we made double that.
Edit: Plus your likely to get far better sponsorship deals if your in the Champions League. Also it's extremely good publicity all around europe. It has far reaching consequences.
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thfcsteff
Garth Crooks
I'm not talking about "every little detail" I'm talking about a manager who did not do his job properly, when the clear proof is that had he done so, we would have finished 3rd. As for loving the club, preaching to the converted...40+ years. I know mate.
thfcsteff
Garth Crooks
No bookie would give you a price on that Chich...it's a banker. In fact, do you remember when he tried to actively shove Modric out the door last August in the final week of the window when Levy had been saying since June "no sale"? Hmmmmm...
thfcsteff
Garth Crooks
I would love to gamble on AVB to, but I fear the UK media has put paid to him working in this country for some time yet...
thfcsteff
Garth Crooks
Fixed.
Honestly, can we all just agree on one thing? The man is going to deliver a cavalcade of flimflam that many will eat up with delight as the silver-tongued cavalier rewrites history and patronizes people who saw things with their own two eyes all at once? In fact he will, whether he's here or not, deliver words which will convince me he is football's version of David Blaine i.e. the smoothest, creates of escape artists who somehow leaves every situation with his own reputation untouched.
Harry is to honesty and integrity what Helen Keller is to basketball.
thfcsteff
Garth Crooks
Top 4 subs if ever I saw them...in fact, we believe so much in The Bong that we gave him how much game time last season? Still, let's not criticize the Great Manager eh? Luvverly jubbly...
I think they'd be considerably more forgiving / less obssessed with us given our far more realistic season objectives than those pricks
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What proof there is this was actually the case?
Not saying we didn't pay bonuses but all of the increase (close to 25 million - and as far as 40m from another source) going to that?
I strongly doubt someone was stringent as Levy would make such questionable financial commitments to players based on our very first CL qualification, without having prior precedent how it would affect our books in the long run, etc. - similar to a chav winning some pessos from the lotto and buying a falt-screen TV and some new traines - ridiculous financial planning.