Is ‘Arry a stop gap appointment or a long term solution?
Almost exactly a year after Martin Jol was sent packing from the Lane, Tottenham seemed to make a good job of plugging the hole in their sinking ship by sacking Carling Cup winning boss Juande Ramos and appointing Harry Redknapp. While he is an excellent manager with experience of hoisting teams away from the danger zone, some may argue that he isn’t the man to fulfill Tottenham’s long term targets.
So, is he the type of manager who can lead another assault on the Big Four teams, or will the club end up trading him in for a ‘big name’ manager in a few years when they have (hopefully) regained some stability?
Put it his way: would Redknapp have been Daniel Levy’s number one target for moving the club into the higher echelons of the league when Jol was sacked? He says so in the press today, but plenty of highly-lauded foreign managers with silverware under their belts would probably have stood ahead of the former Portsmouth man.
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7 responses so far
1 Daniel Callard // Oct 27, 2008 at 12:03 pm
I am actually a Manchester City fan, but I would like to add my view on the Harry Redknapp situation.
He is a complete Judas. I mean he left the P.F.C before for bitter rivals Southampton, and then went back to open welcoming arms. Now he’s done it again to the poor club.
I susspect the real reasons will be revealed to us all soon. Ok Spurs are a great club, big and succesfull, but only last year he was saying I will never leave here, it’s my home. I love it blah blah blah.
He is a Judas, and I really hope Spurs get relegated, and I hope they sack the ginger twitching geriatric. He’s a man with no honour, and he will get his comuppence.
Play up MUFC
2 vic // Oct 27, 2008 at 12:09 pm
So are we not allowed to better ourselves? Would you take a job that paid you three times your salary, gave you more responsibilty, more freedom and money to spend? Harry’s OK and he will make the players feel special. We have quality players but they need a little love and affection to bring out the best in them - Jol did that well and Harry will too. Top 6 next season if we buy well in January.
3 Jon H // Oct 27, 2008 at 12:59 pm
What is it with Tottenham fans, they think they have a god forsaken right to finish in the top 6.
Get a grip you are a mediocre team the rest of the world has caught up. You really get on my tits by banging on about how you are such a massive club. You are just like those whinging Geordies who also believe they are a massive club. Wake up and smell the coffee you will both be luck if you stay up. I for one cant wait for redknapp to get relegated the guy has no loyalty, or maybe we should be blaming his missus Sandra as it is evident that Harry hasn’t got any bollox and she wears the trousers !
4 Elio // Oct 27, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Apart from all of his lies, I don’t actually understand the move. Sure Spurs are bigger than Pompey but they’ll never break into the top 4 or even 5 inc Man City and I would go so far as saying Villa are a much stronger outfit.
But I’m glad the world has woken up to Harry’s bull and hopefully they can see that his attempts at running our finances down where to make us a selling club. He thinks he can come back in January and take ‘his players’, it might be true of a view but hopefully Diarra has bigger ambitions than Tottenham Hotspur
5 Jon H // Oct 27, 2008 at 1:36 pm
What will be good is when Harry does come back to raid us we can quote him
Diarra terrific player worth £15m
Crouch terrific player, got him for a bargain, so we can sell him for more right?
Distin quality player £8m+
and so on and so on……..
I hope someone punches him in the moosh at the civic ceremony tonight
6 big jill // Oct 27, 2008 at 1:47 pm
whatever you do dont let him swap that chump jenas for diarra
7 Upminster Iron // Oct 27, 2008 at 2:07 pm
I think he’ll keep Spurs up and maybe even finish above us sadly but I agree completely with Elio.
Publicly stating that Portsmouth were discussing selling players in January and that the club is for sale is a disgrace that can only destabilise the players and worry the fans. It might already be highly speculated but it shouldn’t be confirmed by the outgoing manager, even worse that he plans to exploit the situation.
He sinks even lower by trying to make himself the martyr who is leaving to ease the financial strain on the club. He worked with Storrie for years first with us and then Pompey and yet he dumped his mate in the smelly stuff by implying Pompey were desperate for the compensation and that the club were getting a good deal for him.