Harry Redknapp: The Aftermath

[parklane1]

Wasting your time mate. harry has done us over just like he left all the other club he managed in the poo poo

Thats the thing, he has done all this before at previous clubs so why are we all surprised. I do not know of one manager who is hated as much at his old clubs as Redknapp is.

 

[paxtonwolf]

How about this guy?

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Think he would be popular with the fans.

 

[Superhudd]

How about this guy?

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Think he would be popular with the fans.

nah prefer

 

[Rorschach]

How about Kevin Bond and Joe Jordan just running things for the last 4 games?

I get the impression that Kevin and Joe really aren't anything more than yes men for Harry. I just remember them on the sidelines for the match(s) Harry's missed and looking like rabbits caught in the headlights. Of course I'm basing this on nothing at all really. In saying that, I do believe they are too close to Harry and this already failed setup to be considered an option that would benefit us at all. Lets face it we're looking for some sort of dead cat bounce by the appointment or else there's no point.

Sherwood is not the ideal candidate by a long shot but I get the impression he's his own man at least. Once again I'm basing this on nothing but the colour of the wind.

 

[indianspur]

Always a good read:

http://www.topspurs.com/jmdview.htm

that is a good read, cheers

Tottanic

i liked this bit too

The parity between Jol and Francis – the purple lines – is remarkable. The difference occurred near the end when Jol’s career was rescued by a make or break 4-0 win in the Cup at Fulham which saw an end of year rally in 2007 while Francis just drifted away as he talked to his feet

:lol:

 

[milo]

Always a good read:

http://www.topspurs.com/jmdview.htm

I can't argue with one word of that

 

[braineclipse]

Really hope this isn't true...

Would Harry really leave out, and promise to play one of our most important players in Ade, a player we have no backup for as well, and our best non-injury-prone centre half?

 

[Baleforce]

isn't kaboul out for the rest of the season anyway?

 

[braineclipse]

I can't argue with one word of that

I agree, well made point.

I agree that either way this summer has to be a bit of a reset, either Harry stays and is given some money to spend and the full confidence of the board and Levy to move forward with a long term plan, or that very same thing has to happen with another manager.

 

[Pirate55]

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 100% accurate. Add to it Harry's transfer success generally, his poor buys, his lack of preparation of free kicks and corners, his training and fitness regimes and you have a complete wash out as a manager

 

[Gutter Boy]

isn't kaboul out for the rest of the season anyway?

But the suggestion is that Ade isn't really injured either, so who knows.

 

[milo]

I agree, well made point.

I agree that either way this summer has to be a bit of a reset, either Harry stays and is given some money to spend and the full confidence of the board and Levy to move forward with a long term plan, or that very same thing has to happen with another manager.

Replacing managers has been one of the worst elements of Levy's time at the club. He has got the timing wrong pretty much every time and there has been little evidence of a long term strategy. Let's hope that he has learnt from experience.

 

[Gutter Boy]

Replacing managers has been one of the worst elements of Levy's time at the club. He has got the timing wrong pretty much every time and there has been little evidence of a long term strategy. Let's hope that he has learnt from experience.

His biggest mistakes were being 6 months too late on both Mourinho and Ancelotti by showing too much faith in Hoddle and Redknapp respectively.

 

[indianspur]

His biggest mistakes were being 6 months too late on both Mourinho and Ancelotti by showing too much faith in Hoddle and Redknapp respectively.

I wonder if we could have got Ancelotti last summer. Im sure i read that there was no clause in his compensation from Chelsea preventing him from managing another Prem club. Levy should have jumped on him way back then if so

 

[BrainOfLevy]

This is 100% accurate. Add to it Harry's transfer success generally, his poor buys, his lack of preparation of free kicks and corners, his training and fitness regimes and you have a complete wash out as a manager

I don't think his training regimes and fitness regimes are the problem. I'm fine with him tactically. He believes in giving good players the freedom to express themselves. When working it can result in lovely football. Just because it's not working right now it doesn't mean that it needs to be named as the problem. It's just a choice. More tactics can restrict players.

I think the problem was clearly letting all of our depth go in January. He obviously thought that letting unhappy players go would result in the good form he managed to get at the start of the season by doing the same thing. But it was probably the mistake that has cost us. We line up roughly the same every game, and teams have figured us out. They know how to stop our players expressing themselves and without any new signings or depth in the squad to mix it up we are destined to trundle along hoping for the season to end.

They know that on the left we look for the BAE quick pass into Bale, but they know he isn't going to do much himself so they can sit deep, crowd Bale out and that avenue is shut down. Other than that we don't seem to have anything. It's stupid because a team of Bale on the left, Lennon on the right, with Modric and Rafa in the middle should mean teams either sit deep and nullify the pace, but risk the guile of the passers in midfield, or they push up and risk getting exploited by the pace. For some reason teams are sitting deep and our passers just aren't having any effect either. It's very strange and something just needs to be freshened up, but it isn't going to happen now.

 

[ArabGooner]

Barcelona suffered a shock 1-0 defeat to Chelsea on Wednesday night in their Champions League semi-final first leg clash at Stamford Bridge.

Should Chelsea win the Champions League, Spurs will be denied a place in the competition if they finish fourth in the Premier League, but Redknapp claims he still wants the Blues to go through following Tuesday's second leg in Spain.

He added: "I'll be rooting for Chelsea. I haven't even thought about [missing out on the Champions League if Chelsea win the whole thing].

"If Chelsea stay in it, they've got a Champions League Final to prepare for as well and that'll mean they've got a lot on their plate and I want to see an English team win it anyway."



I'm genuinely stunned, how can any manager openly admit rooting for one of their biggest rivals? Wow.

Excuse me for being honest, but this is absolutely unacceptable from a Tottenham manager. But its very expected from an England manager!
He is saying all the right things even if its wrong for the club he is managing. Sorry if i offend anyone here, but THFC is much better than a person like Harry Redknapp, and much classier of a club than a person who has no respect or a sense of responsibility towards his current job.

 

[Rorschach]

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.

Very good.

 

[DanishWhite]

Seems original source retracting on Twitter now.

However, PERFORMANCES indicate that something is seriously, seriously Rigobert behind the scenes.

 

[NaijaSpurs]

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.

Or maybe just an excellent manager who could not communicate with his players due to his inability to grasp any semblance of a command of the English language. And as for that 70 percent, what was the win rate percentage during tournaments?

 

[Superhudd]

Oh the wonders of twitter.