Oh brick, a football writer has an opinion that's a bit different to mine. Better change it now to suit him.
He's giving his own negative opinion of Harry going to be a pundit. I read that story this morning too, but I don't have to agree with it. There's been absolutely no indication that Harry is going to stick the knife into Roy, or that he won't be able to conclude deals for the players we need. He's already mentioned that he's learnt from the Capello episode, and he knows Roy personally and respects him so I just can't see it being any aggravation.
As far as I'm concerned, the players know he isn't going to leave them and become England manager. That was the biggest thing undermining the confidence in them and Harry and led to our bad form IMO. Now they know that, he can do what he wants. If the press want to say Harry would have done something differently then whoop-di-do. It makes no difference. There may be a little bit of it in the papers, maybe Harry said he would have took Lennon ahead of Walcott or something...and then a story gets written. At the end of the day though it will be nothing compared to the storm this club has had to put up with over the last few months and will all be forgotten about by the time pre-season rolls around. It's for that reason that I feel people are now just picking up any stick to beat Harry with when it really doesn't matter anymore.
For the record I'm 50/50 about wanting him gone. If we can make good signings this pre-season and push on, and if the players confidence is restored because they know he's not leaving, then I wouldn't mind him staying. But if we can get a younger manager in with new ideas that may be able to make our 4th/5th best team perform like the 3rd, 2nd or 1st best team then I'd be for it. Of course that's no guarentee though. If Harry stays though I think we should give him a new 3 year contract to remove any uncertainty and let him get on with the job. He will have us in the top 6 challenging for the top 4 again next season and I'd be very happy with that, working on the basis that Chelsea aren't going to be as bad as they have been, and that Liverpool are going to improve, and that Saudi Sportswashing Machine will make intelligent buys and remain around a position they deserve to be in.
It's going to be very competitive next season and I'd be happy for Harry to stay as a safe pair of hands to keep us in that mix.