Harry Redknapp gone

pingwing said:
Oi! And most recently Southampton! Can't forget all of Pardew's events... :p

Anyway this is an almighty disappointment, one of the highlights of the first season back in the prem was going to be Spurs home and away to get to throw 2 games worth of abuse at harry! As a bitter and angry bunch of fans we have been robbed of the highlight of our season by his own greed and incompetence!! We don't even get the chance to have a go at him for it. :mad:

(note I am secretly overjoyed the real world can see what an utterly useless manager he is, spending money to basically just about meet expectations is hardly impressive, especially considering how much has been splashed)
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Completely agree with pingwing. Terrible manager who freezes out players with little reason and blames everyone but himself for his failings.

I was delighted that Roy got the England job ahead of him so this news has really made my day. Dreadful bloke.
 
As a Spurs fan im glad Harrys gone, i grateful for what he has done for the club (well up to febuary this season)

harry is good at the simple things, but would he push spurs on from where they are now, erg NO!
 
shadow_boxer said:
Spurs to go the way of Southampton and Pompey? He spent far too much money, no success, poorly utilised the squad, little tactical awareness and bought in some very average players whilst massively increasing the wage bill. Relied too much on individual performances to win games which didn't correlate into god team form or performances. Seemed to have a funny/odd relationship with Levy, not surprised he's gone. As for the fact he came out yesterday and said he's not leaving...good old Arry's word. Would like to see Martinez given the job, can't see Moyes adding much.
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You what? That is quite possibly the most ridiculous post I've seen in a long long time. You do realise that Spurs are one of the best run clubs in the country, Redknapp hasn't actually spent much money, and the wage bill at Spurs is not only very much under control it certainly hasn't increased.

Anyway, still can't find anything official so I'm still going with this being a ploy by Redknapp to try and force Levy's hand into giving him the contract he wants.
 
Moses said:
A net spend of £78 340 000, in six years = £13m/year... not bad.
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shine said:
Except for his last season which was poor we got better every season Rafa was in charge. You obviously forgetting we were runners up the season before he was sacked thrashing Utd at Old Trafford almost getting to another CL Final.
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:p I'm probably being OTT and painting a one sided picture, but I do stand by my low opinion of Benitez's managerial skills and character. The pattern of his end days at LFC was perfected at Inter, where he inherited a treble winning side and made them awful, all the while blaming other people and demanding new signings because the squad wasn't good enough!

Of his good signings at Liverpool, yes some were great, but mostly they were well known as good players and the stature of LFC helped attract them. Alonso was the only one who really surprised me by going there as Real were quite keen. I still think any manager at LFC at that time could've made good signings with the money available.

As for the season finishing 2nd, it might've been 3rd had Scolari not been hired by Chelsea and made a total mess of things. I recall some Liverpool fans even in that season not being terribly happy with Benitez - maybe because he seemed to lose his cool in public, and airing the dirty laundry in public re his conflict with the board over transfers? irrc some were complaining about the quality of football as well
 
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I'm very suprised at this, I like Harry and as much as I wouldn't mind Moyes or Martinez taking the reins neither will do any better with the resources available. Not finishing in the CL may have been a factor but as much as you can blame Spurs for going on an awful run towards the end of the season we should've finished 3rd if it wasn't for some seriously suspect refereeing decisions, Chelsea at home and Stoke away anyone??
 
El Jimben said:
Not finishing in the CL may have been a factor but as much as you can blame Spurs for going on an awful run towards the end of the season we should've finished 3rd if it wasn't for some seriously suspect refereeing decisions, Chelsea at home and Stoke away anyone??
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What happened against Chelsea?

You cant blame ref's though, Spurs could have wrapped up 3rd just by beating Villa away let alone all the other 'easy' games they dropped points in. The buck stops at Redknapp and for all the good he did for Spurs some of his decisions this season were nothing less than suicidal (moving Bale in field, sticking Modric on the left wing etc etc)
 
What a remarkable fall from grace, from being title contenders and 'having a look at Hazard' to being on the dole
 
The moment it all went wrong for the old dog.

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Tom84 said:
What happened against Chelsea?
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FA cup? Chelsea were awarded a goal for a ball that didn't really get anywhere near crossing the line, although Chelsea would probably have won the game almost as convincingly even if the wrong decision hadn't been made.
 
I love jakeke's continual trolling of the Spurs supporters :D

Icm76 said:
FA cup? Chelsea were awarded a goal for ball that didn't really get anywhere near crossing the line, although Chelsea would probably have won the game almost as convincingly even if the wrong decision hadn't been made.
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That wasn't at home nor in the league (thus costing them points)
 
Tom84 said:
What happened against Chelsea?

You cant blame ref's though, Spurs could have wrapped up 3rd just by beating Villa away let alone all the other 'easy' games they dropped points in. The buck stops at Redknapp and for all the good he did for Spurs some of his decisions this season were nothing less than suicidal (moving Bale in field, sticking Modric on the left wing etc etc)
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Goal disallowed for offside even though it wasn't.

You're totally right though, bad tactics were a big factor, why give Bale a licence to drift in field when he's at his most potent on the wing whipping crosses in.
 
if it aint broke dont fix it. i bet if u offered any tottenham fan 4th place before the season even started not 1 tottenham fan would have turned it down, ye i'm sure he did get distracted about england but in all honestly the media made such a big hype about it they basically chose the manager not the F.A. he was put in a tough position from the start as soon as capello resigned, i think it's a huge mistake and they will regret it.
 
Meh, its been coming for a while - tbh its been in the pipeline since the whole england rubbish.

Thanks for the time Harry, you had us playing some beautiful football at times and steadied the ship when we needed it but now we need someone to take us on and establish us in the top 4 long term and beyond (hopefully someone who's tactical nous goes beyond 'lump it up to the big man' as a plan b)

I don't think 4th was the problem, it was mostly the nature of it, we were joint top at what early Jan? To then go to 3rd but 10 points clear of 4th, fair enough but then to capitulate that and go 8(?) Points behind at one point isn't good enough.

Sure we had some bad luck, but its no coincidence IMO that it all started around the England stuff, during which at no point did wither the FA (thanks guys...) or harry do anything to stop speculation.. and after all that woy gets the job...
 
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