Harry Redknapp: The Aftermath

[Leeds Spur]

What jobs were going around in the last 15 years then.........man ure,the goons both jobs tied up.........Emirates Marketing Project worse than the hammers for the last 20 years.........chelsea,perhaps he may have been asked once or twice about 15 years ago..........he was offered the Saudi Sportswashing Machine job but put his family first(nothing wrong with that).........anyone else then???

he was with the hammers for years.........so what.......he had security and a good relationship........perhaps we should have come to us instead of gerry francis and the rest who followed him.......

Look......you think Harry is great, fine.

I don't.

 

[diego_maradona]

How about hatred that existed before he became our manager? Surely we're allowed to hate him for ****ing us all off over the Campbell situation?

Is that when he was saying how the abuse Campbell received was disgusting and racist and has no place in football? Or was there more to it?

 

[Leeds Spur]

Which is.........



As far as I can see, the only thing separating the two of them at entry level was that Capello had been a much better player in his day than Harry. Which has absolutely fudge all to do with management ability.

:ross:

 

[scaramanga]

Is that when he was saying how the abuse Campbell received was disgusting and racist and has no place in football? Or was there more to it?

Can't remember the exact words, but every chance he got he was talking about how low Spurs fans were and that we should just forget brick like that.

 

[Leeds Spur]

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?

=D>

 

[spurspinter1]

=D>

Totally agree with that, harry has made a couple of mistakes but our strikers cant score and our defenders are too old and injured to defend. Add to that some referee decisions and a typical bottle mentality like defoe at City, also add a tired team and a chairman that doesnt want to spend money.

The way Harry is treated and the way people have changed their mind is ridiculous.

Can you explain what you mean here?

 

[1882]

Wouldnt surprise me if this happened

nothing fudging surprises me about this season now...

it started with riots in the High Road... and will probably end with one in the stadium....

WE'RE A LAUGHING STOCK ALL OVER AGAIN!

 

[zin]

The players had a meeting behind Harry's back led by Ade and Kaboul regarding whether Redknapp would leave if FA offered and he didnt turn up., he has found out and has said they both wont play again for the club this season

Harry didn't turn up for the meeting the players held behind his back?
I don't get it. Or is someone else "he"?

This.

I've deciphered to mean that Ade and Kaboul organised a meeting with the rest of the squad behind Harry's back, about whether he gets offered the job and doesn't turn is down (not up). Harry found out they did this and won't play them again.

 

[ArcspacE]

nothing fudging surprises me about this season now...

it started with riots in the High Road... and will probably end with one in the stadium....

WE'RE A LAUGHING STOCK ALL OVER AGAIN!

:ross:

 

[diego_maradona]

Can't remember the exact words, but every chance he got he was talking about how low Spurs fans were and that we should just forget brick like that.

"That's got no place in football what went on Sunday," he said.
"It's got no place in life, it's a disgrace. People chant filth, it's nothing to do with football.

There is a difference between banter and abuse. What happened to Sol really crossed the line
Portsmouth striker Peter Crouch
"Some of the stuff that goes on is completely out of order.
"We're talking about awful abuse, some of this stuff is racist - it's everything. It's wrong and has no place in football.
"How do you do that in front of your kids? What kind of a nutter must you be? What kind of human being must you be when you take your little kids to football and shout filth? It can't be right.
"Of course he is upset about it and we are all disappointed about what's happened to him but he'll be fine. He'll move on and get on with his football. He's been terrific for us."

Striker Peter Crouch echoed his manager's sentiments and believes crowd abuse reached a new low with the chants directed in Campbell's direction.
"There is probably not a player in the Premier League who has not had some stick but there is a difference between banter and abuse. What happened to Sol really crossed the line," he said.
"But he showed against Tottenham on Sunday he can react with a fantastic performance. It has had no effect on his game and it won't affect it in the future."

 

[zin]

From Archibald over at COYS(?)

"they are all aware of the lack of plan B and the same old training sessions and no new modern systems/ideas but they have been pretty unified..

Its the fact that the management team have now been shown up.. Maybe that is where the players are becoming wobbly as they now realise that, however there isnt anarchy in the squad"

 

[charlietheyid]

Can you explain what you mean here?

Actually, it was also Bale`s fault but if we had scored that goal, we wouldnt be here talking about Redknapp. Every time we have a chance to do something great, we bottle it.

City were flying at that time, and what did Redknapp do wrong in that game? We just needed to stick the ball in the back of the net, a yard away from a open goal. If we had scored we would have been top in February. I dont think we ever recovered from that.

 

[1882]

Redknapp resignation rejected?!?
Just had a text that Levy's rejected a resignation attempt from Harry.

No idea how true but thought for urgency, this could do with a thread of its own!

Oh FFS!!!!

anyone else tired of the teletext/text/facebook Like generation we're currently in? ANYTHING someone says is potentially legit and sourced, and 99.9% is gonads...

fudge it, I'm off to start a Facebook page entitled; "Man Utd/Emirates Marketing Project have engineered recent results to coincide with next week's game BECOMING THE BIGGEST EVER MANCHESTER DERBY IN THE WORLD, EVER..."

oh, that and a "David Dein shat in our Lasagne and we haven't been the same since" Facebook page! See how THAT fudging trends on teletext!!!!

 

[Wriggly]

=D>

Totally agree with that, harry has made a couple of mistakes but our strikers cant score and our defenders are too old and injured to defend. Add to that some referee decisions and a typical bottle mentality like defoe at City, also add a tired team and a chairman that doesnt want to spend money.

The way Harry is treated and the way people have changed their mind is ridiculous.

If you think its just because of this, then you are mistaken, and if you don't what else there is then you need to get your head out your arse.

 

[scaramanga]

"That's got no place in football what went on Sunday," he said.
"It's got no place in life, it's a disgrace. People chant filth, it's nothing to do with football.

There is a difference between banter and abuse. What happened to Sol really crossed the line
Portsmouth striker Peter Crouch
"Some of the stuff that goes on is completely out of order.
"We're talking about awful abuse, some of this stuff is racist - it's everything. It's wrong and has no place in football.
"How do you do that in front of your kids? What kind of a nutter must you be? What kind of human being must you be when you take your little kids to football and shout filth? It can't be right.
"Of course he is upset about it and we are all disappointed about what's happened to him but he'll be fine. He'll move on and get on with his football. He's been terrific for us."

Striker Peter Crouch echoed his manager's sentiments and believes crowd abuse reached a new low with the chants directed in Campbell's direction.
"There is probably not a player in the Premier League who has not had some stick but there is a difference between banter and abuse. What happened to Sol really crossed the line," he said.
"But he showed against Tottenham on Sunday he can react with a fantastic performance. It has had no effect on his game and it won't affect it in the future."

That'll do.

There was definitely something about how we should just let it go too though.

Also, fudge him. If he had any understanding of what football means to fans then he'll know that we'll forget when we want to fudging forget it. For most of us that'll be at the party the day Campbell dies.

 

[diego_maradona]

That'll do.

There was definitely something about how we should just let it go too though.

At the risk of alienating myself from this board, let me just start by saying Campbell will always be the biggest c*** I know. However, some of the stuff sung about him was out of order in my view. But that's old territory.

Your right he has said it plenty of times about how we should let it go. Often has spoken about "what has he really done?". I think that certainly doesn't endear him to us.

He knew Campbell personally and perhaps feels he was defending his mate.

 

[charlietheyid]

If you think its just because of this, then you are mistaken, and if you don't what else there is then you need to get your head out your arse.

Well, we just cant seem to keep a manager for very long, so maybe the problem isnt the manager, especially when last season we were in the quarter finals of the champions league with that manager, and playing some of the best football around Europe.

Yes, hes made some tactical mistakes and we`re too often too open, but has he been able to spend as much as he wants? are the problems his fault in the dressing room? as he accepted the England job?

At the moment its all rumours, so lets wait and see what really happened.

 

[scaramanga]

At the risk of alienating myself from this board, let me just start by saying Campbell will always be the biggest c*** I know. However, some of the stuff sung about him was out of order in my view. But that's old territory.

Your right he has said it plenty of times about how we should let it go. Often has spoken about "what has he really done?". I think that certainly doesn't endear him to us.

He knew Campbell personally and perhaps feels he was defending his mate.

That may be, and as a manager of another club he can say all he wants. I can't see why anyone who has ever said something like that can be considered employable by the club - he won't have changed his opinion, he's just managed to shut up about it for a few years.

 

[diego_maradona]

Lol.

Some people forget where they belong. Before Spurs took a chance on him, Redknapp managed to win one trophy in his lifetime and his average finishing position was the Championship.

To prove I am no Redknapp apologist, LOL to this. I like the sound of the tables turned, and throwing mud back at him.

That sort of thing, when he belittles us tinkles me off.

 

[diego_maradona]

That may be, and as a manager of another club he can say all he wants. I can't see why anyone who has ever said something like that can be considered employable by the club - he won't have changed his opinion, he's just managed to shut up about it for a few years.

I'm pretty sure he's said it whilst he's been here! I'm sure I read something about he would re-sign Campbell for us if he could have.