Hello everyone.
I’ve been in France
Oh my.
The ‘well this is MY view on the Redknapp tinning…’ has been done to death, so rather than saturate the market further, I’ll attempt to soak it up and squeeze the analysis sponge over your tired eyes and ‘on the one hand’ brain scales, and put forth the following.
The people whose blogs and opinions I find myself largely in agreement with through the rough and smooth of following this mob of ours, have presented essentially the same conclusion. Namely, thanks for the good stuff, but I’ll be shedding no tears for a man who valued personal gain over doing his job properly. I can only agree.
A squad containing so much quality, we shouldn’t have been concerned by a sorry excuse for goalkeeping at West Brom or a shambles of a Champions League final. A second late-season collapse in a row, this time with a tangible distraction to pin it on. Not good enough, and we can do better than this self-serving window blabber. If Harry walked into Apple and colour coded the bins, he’d claim credit for making it into a market leader.
So it looks like failed expensive Wimbledon Chelsea badger AVB or crab-mouthed boursin-botherer Matt Le Blanc seem to be edging ahead in the managerial gallop. Quite how Laurent would have found time to have had any form of discussion over our vacant recaro I don’t know, but gun to the head… I quite like the idea of AVB striking back at the football world, wielding Tottenham Hotspur as his mighty staff (ooh, er), smiting doubters and building an empire where a load of garages and fried chicken shops once stood.
And how about them Oy-row Championisings eh? Greece England
I’ve put money on Ukraine
The biggest 'oh my' is not should Harry have been sacked or not. The biggest 'oh my' is that there is obviously no plan for a replacement. 10 managers in 10 years for the current ownership? What is the common thread here? No stability, constant rebuilding. Yet we finish 4th or 5th 5 times in the last 7 years. Pernament bridesmaid. Is the truth that they actually don't want to join the big boys, because the risk is just too high?
ReplyDeleteIf it's AVB, there were irons in the fire. If, however, it's Blanc, or even Loew we're after, we'll have to wait until after the Euros, so clearly NOT planned. We'll see.
DeleteSpurs mistake was getting rid of Jol, should have given him the season to turn things around, ramos had to go and redknapp just won't stop chatting shit, so in my eyes it's good riddence!, a top manager could have done better, but his constant insistant in signing old past players and his persitant in the england job only lead me to beleive he want a quick fix as he was never going to be there long.
ReplyDeleteJol was never smart enough, as much as we all loved him. Good point, Harry was a fixer, never a long term answer.
DeleteToo many deja vus all over again. French team manager comes after the Euros. Or manager very successful on the Iberian peninsula comes to England and blows it (except this time we've seen him blow it once already).
ReplyDeleteThe stars are aligning! Like 'Pitch Black' but with puffed up Cv's eating wild players dreams. Not really, but, you know.
DeleteWhilst a part of me is intrigued by the thought of AVB as our new manager elect (busting a gut to prove his doubters and the Chelsea hierarchy - Terry, Lampard, Drogba, wrong), l still have my reservations.
ReplyDeleteWe have got to get this decision right and appoint the right man for the job. Is AVB that man?
The ideal choice would be Pep but that's unlikely to happen so the next best in my opinion would be David Moyes as long as Levy instills in him the need to play the 'Spurs way'.
The ideal man is a tried and tested head who builds, not one who refined. We need a Rijkaard, not a Guardiola. We need a Van Gaal, not a pretender. We need bona fide born winners. Not people who have yet to prove something. Remember, Fergue and Cloufh had already become winners at their previous clubs before hitting true big time heights.
DeleteIs AVB ready?
Good point about a foundations man rather than a fancy sink fitter (i've been watching a lot of Grand Designs recently, please forgive). Rijkaard is a good shout.
DeleteNo to Moyes bcos Levy wants a DOF.
ReplyDeleteI would like him to look at Rijkaard, I know he has no premier league experience but he started the Barca revolution that Pep took over.
*like*
DeleteHarry had to go, I'd have said that if regardless of whether we were in the CL or not. His conduct during the England manager debacle was shameful and showed his total lack of commitment to the club. His silence was deafening, and here's why; he was all "I'm just thinking about the next fixture that's all" was his line for weeks on end. All of a sudden just days before the announcement (and I beleive he was tipped off that Roy got the job) he was "I have the best job in the league with a great chairman and great fans"....the silly twitchy face spaz.
ReplyDeleteThe longer that went on the more I wanted him gone, I firmly beleive that Levy was as tired as the rest of us with his bunny to the press and lack of any shred of an attempt to distance himself from the rumours. Levy saw what every bugger in the country saw, a total colapse in team moral because he wouldn't commit.
The facts speak for themselves; the very week the rumour started was the start of our slide, the EXACT week Roy got the job we started winning again...you're a muppet if you think this was due to ANY other reason.
Ta taa Harry, cheers and all that but at 65 I'd have thought you'd be a little wiser in how you speak to the press, chatting once in a while is fine....but every day?!
Quite right. Levy will have known it was the perfect time to test his mettle by offering a contract in the midst of that speculation,and he was found wanting.
DeleteEmploying stretford as his chief negotiator would have seriously enraged Levy, who for his faults, always has the future progression of the club at the top of the agenda, unlike Harry who was after the most cushy deal/payout he could get.
BYE!
(His silence on the subject of commitment I meant)
ReplyDelete