Daniel Levy - Chairman

[scaramanga]

I have no doubt about that at all, as I have said many times he is a fraud and a gobbrick of the highest order.

I think I'm probably staying the right side of the lawyers if I say that there is nothing in which Redknapp doesn't see (and take) an angle.

 

[E3zzle]

Did you actually read the statement? What is your issue with it? Are you still annoyed we don't have a striker? Are you annoyed we didn't bid £30M for someone like Wanyama?

Understand this - we all want the team to be successful. No one likely more so than Levy. A fan who also has a serious financial interest in making it happen. But the great thing is, after years of trying to hire flavour of the month managers or hiring without a clear long term plan because we are looking for a magician super coach who will just happen to make us over perform every year as a top 4 force, they are over. And the good thing is, Levy realises that. And he has hired someone to help carry out a long term plan that will lead to more sustainable performance in the future.

If you are so worried about the striker, ask yourself why. Are you nervous we won't make the top 4 next year? Do you think the fact that we didn't get Berahino means that we have lost our best chance? That he was the key to being CL regulars while building a stadium? Is Berahino really that guy?

It doesn't matter. We all want to win every game we go to play. But it's never going to happen. We all want to be CL regulars. But it isn't guaranteed just because we sign Berahino. It doesn't even improve our chances by that much more of a margin. But what not signing him does, is keep the long term plan in place. It means when we spend our money, we are absolutely confident we have got the best players for the positions in the squad. And it means we have more money back to buy better quality when it becomes available. We also have more spaces for young players to grow, and if we have one strategic advantage over the rest of the clubs we are competing with, is that we will have these players grow together, while they will spend ever more money to try and gel together ever more average players. Because prices are going up much faster than the relative talent of the footballer is. And eventually it stops to be that much of an advantage anymore. Kevin De Bruyne is a nice player. Really bloody good in fact. But we don't have to be scared of City just because they paid £60M for him.

The point now is not to be down if we don't make the CL one year. It's to develop a team for the long term. If you're nervous about this season, or the next 4 months, because we didn't sign a striker, I think you are looking at the problem of our club's progression in the wrong way.

It's not about Berahino, or any other one player. It's about having a squad that can compete in at least two competitions. We don't have that regadless of what statements the club makes. Our squad have lots of great prospects, but there are so many holes in it. The striker situation is just one thing. The dm situation is much worse. Signing an experienced dm on a short term contract would have helped us massively. And it would help the kids develop as well, as they could lean from their experience. We wouldn't have any chance of top four, even if we added a striker, but with a balanced squad with more depth we could have had a go at winning the el.

And by the way, AVB said he was happy with the squad when he was in charge. You have to in order to keep your job. Later he made statements like this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-bosses-with-stinging-attack-on-the-club.html

 

[DublinSpur]

It's common amongst his peers??? Why are we the ONLY club in our league to have ONLY one senior central striker in our ENTIRE squad?

"Much has been said about us only having one recognised striker in Harry - I don’t accept this at all - the positional play of today’s forwards means it’s too simplistic to look for goals from any one position - playing a fluid style means players switch. Also we secured Sonny and Clinton in the knowledge that we may not be adding any other forward."
- Mauricio Pochettino

I'm not saying you have to agree with the manager, or think we are pursuing the right strategy, but he has clearly answered this question. So I really don't know why people (not just you) are still asking it.

 

[parklane1]

"Much has been said about us only having one recognised striker in Harry - I don’t accept this at all - the positional play of today’s forwards means it’s too simplistic to look for goals from any one position - playing a fluid style means players switch. Also we secured Sonny and Clinton in the knowledge that we may not be adding any other forward."
- Mauricio Pochettino

I'm not saying you have to agree with the manager, or think we are pursuing the right strategy, but he has clearly answered this question. So I really don't know why people (not just you) are still asking it.

As I said earlier when the statement was made there are still some who will not listen.

 

[DTA]

"Much has been said about us only having one recognised striker in Harry - I don’t accept this at all - the positional play of today’s forwards means it’s too simplistic to look for goals from any one position - playing a fluid style means players switch. Also we secured Sonny and Clinton in the knowledge that we may not be adding any other forward."
- Mauricio Pochettino

I'm not saying you have to agree with the manager, or think we are pursuing the right strategy, but he has clearly answered this question. So I really don't know why people (not just you) are still asking it.

Like I have said already, let him live and die by those words..... Because there will be no room for excuses that would validate this course of action if it does not work out.

 

[scaramanga]

Every body in just about every line of work that I know, does risk assessment..... And plans in place if those risk come to bare......

A dumbed down version may go a little something like this:

We only have one striker- is that enough?

Yes /no

Answer no

Reason: what if he gets injured, needs a rest blah blah blah

If this happens what is the course of action


Answer: We play son.

Is this a satisfactory risk mitigation

Answer: No

What is the reason for this answer

There is a high risk of Son not being able to settle in a new position in a new league in a new country with a new language, in fact it would be unfair to place that burden on what is a good prospect.

Alternative plan?

?????????:??:

Maybe the Health and Safety dingdonghead would do a risk assessment like that. At a management/board level each of the alternatives would have weighted costs to them.

For example (and these numbers aren't supposed to mean anything, just an example):

Cost of Kane getting injured for half the season might be 10 points = about £5M in lost revenue. Likelihood of occurrence = 20%, therefore weighted cost = £1M

Cost of buying a duffer that we cannot resell = £10M (assuming a £15M+ cost with a £5M sale later). Likelihood of occurrence = 30%, therefore weighted cost = £3M

It's not as simple as a decision tree when it stops being someone else's money you're spending.

Edit:

All of this, of course, ignores the time value of money. When we're investing heavily then that becomes even more important and makes people asking for large cash payments up front unreasonable.

 

[DTA]

As I said earlier when the statement was made there are still some who will not listen.

I am listening, I'm also saying that if he is wrong he should suffer the consequences.

 

[milo]

It's not about Berahino, or any other one player. It's about having a squad that can compete in at least two competitions. We don't have that regadless of what statements the club makes. Our squad have lots of great prospects, but there are so many holes in it. The striker situation is just one thing. The dm situation is much worse. Signing an experienced dm on a short term contract would have helped us massively. And it would help the kids develop as well, as they could lean from their experience. We wouldn't have any chance of top four, even if we added a striker, but with a balanced squad with more depth we could have had a go at winning the el.

We finished fifth and competed in at least two competitions with no DM, a worse defence and reserve strikers who competed close to nothing. We have since signed some pacey attacking players to add to our good record of goalscoring from midfield, seen a promising start to the season by a DM and strengthened our defence.

 

[parklane1]

I am listening, I'm also saying that if he is wrong he should suffer the consequences.

So are you saying that every time a manager makes a poor/bad decision his head should role. Blimey if that was the case all teams would go through dozens a season.

 

[E3zzle]

We finished fifth and competed in at least two competitions with no DM, a worse defence and reserve strikers who competed close to nothing. We have since signed some pacey attacking players to add to our good record of goalscoring from midfield, seen a promising start to the season by a DM and strengthened our defence.

We had no dms last season?? We had at least two. Besides, we will have to be a lot better this season in order to finish fifth.

 

[DTA]

Maybe the Health and Safety dingdonghead would do a risk assessment like that. At a management/board level each of the alternatives would have weighted costs to them.

For example (and these numbers aren't supposed to mean anything, just an example):

Cost of Kane getting injured for half the season might be 10 points = about £5M in lost revenue

Cost of buying a duffer that we cannot resell = £10M (assuming a £15M+ cost with a £5M sale later).

It's not as simple as a decision three when it stops being someone else's money you're spending.

Like I said it was a dumbed down risk assessment. But you can't say number mean nothing, then put numbers in???? Wtf dude

How about we change that to 30 points and 100 million, numbers mean nothing remember???????

 

[Jordinho]

We only have 9 cup games at most before xmas. In the EL we should do just fine without Kane.

 

[IOWyid]

As someone who had friends and family closely involved with Portsmouth and someone who used to eat/drink in the same place as a lot of Portsmouth players I can tell you that most facts about Redknapp would see you on the wrong end of a libel case.

Land opposite the pier *cough* or something else?

 

[milo]

We had no dms last season?? We had at least two. Besides, we will have to be a lot better this season in order to finish fifth.

Capoue hardly played, I'm not sure that I would class Stambouli as a DM but if you want to that's great. He did not contribute a great deal last season and I would be surprised if Dier had less of an impact this season.

As for having to do a lot better this season, it is a little early to say that. I think that you may be over estimating the quality of the squads of the teams that finished immediately behind us last season.

 

[DTA]

So are you saying that every time a manager makes a poor/bad decision his head should role. Blimey if that was the case all teams would go through dozens a season.

No but if they make a monumental bad decision which will have long term repercussions, which is also against perceived wisdom, then they have to be held accountable. And no excuse will do.

I really hope he is right and I'm wrong.

That's the last I'm going to say on this for a while.

 

[scaramanga]

Land opposite the pier *cough* or something else?

Harry Redknapp definitely didn't have any involvement in owning a building opposite the pier. Neither was he upset about a lack of planning permission or financially hamstrung by it.

The fire that then occurred in said building, razing it to the ground and removing any listed status applicable was entirely by chance and nothing whatsoever to do with his ownership.

He also only bought Chimbonda for Spurs because we desperately needed a 4th rb and gained nothing from the deal.

Any mentions in the press recently about managers getting involved in players' appearance bonuses are about other managers only and nothing to do with him.

 

[parklane1]

No but if they make a monumental bad decision which will have long term repercussions, which is also against perceived wisdom, then they have to be held accountable. And no excuse will do.

I really hope he is right and I'm wrong.

That's the last I'm going to say on this for a while.

Monumental bad decision in your eyes and a few others, seems to me that many disagree with that.

 

[milo]

No but if they make a monumental bad decision which will have long term repercussions, which is also against perceived wisdom, then they have to be held accountable. And no excuse will do.

I really hope he is right and I'm wrong.

That's the last I'm going to say on this for a while.

A monumentally bad decision which would have long term repercussions would be signing a player that they did not want or was not up to standard.

 

[LutonSpurs]

Come on guys, we got a joint statement from our owner and head coach. A classy one at that.

 

[scaramanga]

Like I said it was a dumbed down risk assessment. But you can't say number mean nothing, then put numbers in???? Wtf dude

How about we change that to 30 points and 100 million, numbers mean nothing remember???????

Numbers mean everything. The ones I used are to illustrate a point and don't mean anything because I'm a bottle of Bordeaux down and I don't know/can't be arsed to work out anything past there.