hmm, i wonder if people factored in the england job , injuries, and lack of form when thinking harry should go.......nah, chances are that they saw we didnt make CL cause of a bad 2 and half months and decided the best manager we have ever had in the premiership should go.
if AVB gets lower than 6th his head should be looking out for Clint eastwood to bail him out with rifle
6th is my level. we have a squad that can easily grab 6th .....and with an alleged genious of a manager / tactician (not that anyone has seen it in this country), this man should get 6th.
if he doesnt he has failed
Yes they did.
In fact that was PRECISELY the crux of it. And this is where you get even angrier at something I'm about to express, but hey, here we are, and hopefully we can DISCUSS it and DISAGREE with some decency.
Harry, IMO, did nothing to distance himself from the England job. He did nothing to insulate himself from the cacophony around him. Instead he flat out denied it had any influence on the payers at all, when his own lieutenants disagreed with him on that score!
Injuries...they happen. He had no worse a run of injuries than Wenger. And he he had (arguably) a more experienced squad. One of his big tickets was squad rotation, something he did very well in the CL qualification year (with players such as Gudjohnsen and Kranjcar being elevated to vital roles). He shifted Pienaar when he could've been a very very important squad rotated player, he froze Kranjcar out, he was absolutely unable to get Pav to function and he wore Parker into the ground when there were options. Further, compared to even earlier in the same season, his tactical nous when going to, say, the Emirates was absolutely 100% lacking. We hammere3d Newcash the week before 5-0, played amazing football with 4-4-2 but were playing a side shorn of Tiote and Cabaye who still came to ours 4-4-2 and who's manager, Pardew, subsequently admitted was a massive error on HIS part. I know I go on about the emirates, but it was a clear CLEAR indication that he was not at the races. We found ourselves 2-0 up despite being outplayed beyond the first 10 minutes, Harry said himself afterwards that he saw us getting overrun and felt perhaps he should make a change, but he didn't. Ledders was hurting that day and we did nothing to protect him! Instead, we went 4-3-3 second-half!!!!
I undertand there will be dips, but not for two and a half months. And don't forget the previous season's two and a half month dip either.
Do I recognize there were great moments? of course! Said so many times. But it's churlish to think that anyone who criticized Harry Redknapp didn't consider those aspects, when there are literally thousands of written words detailing concerns over those precise elements mate...
