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Harry Redknapp: The Aftermath

Would you keep Arry after the Season?

  • Yes - He's done well and should be given at least one more season to consolidate our team

    Votes: 25 53.2%

  • No - he's peaked and would hold us back.

    Votes: 22 46.8%
  • Total voters
    47
I think totman did a pretty good job of battling his corner for 40 odd pages before exploding

I can't believe the abuse Redknapp has received for these comments

I'm annoyed we didn't sign the right players in January
And I'm annoyed at Redknapp's tactics in recent games

But overall he's been fantastic for us, so he deserves some slack when things go wrong - we ask our players to man up and see it out, so I suggest some of you do likewise, with respect
 
Overall, I think totman was looking for an argument, there are ways of puting your views across, and there are ways of forcing them down people's throats to become a wum
 
The Moonlit Knight said:
So just so I can get this right. Redknapp has failed us? We're lying 4th in the table and have a massive semi final today and that's failure?

As for the players, buy them at 21, 25 or 30 and most of the time they will only be around for three years. Football Manager has bred a generation of footballing following macarons that believe the bedrock to long term success is to buy kids, kids, kids. Just to have a reality check.......BUYING YOUTH DOESN'T MEAN fudge ALL AND DOESN'T LEAD TO A LONG TERM SUCCESS.

The ideal transfer strategy is one that fills the short term needs of the first XI, thus ensuring a great chance of success in the short term, thus ensuring your club being more attractive to potential players in the next transfer window. There is no realistic long term view in building a squad anymore. The amount the players get paid ended that.

Regarding age. Our team is young. Regarding tactics, we've taken teams apart this year and yet the final ball or finishing has at times been woeful. Is that poor tactics or because they players fall just a little short of being good enough to challenge for the title? I say the latter. The amount of times we get in great crossing positions and Walker and Ekotto fudge them up with crosses that are Sunday league standard is ridiculous. The amount of chances Ade has missed this season is ridiculous.

But if a team is playing well, creating chances but not converting the chances then that demonstrates there is fudge all wrong with the tactic. Same applies to if the defence makes individual mistakes. The failing of the Manager then isn't tactics, it's not replacing players who aren't good enough. E.g. I'd rather us buy a 34 year left back that is good enough than put up with Beniot "I'm ball watching again, am slow to react and have played him onside/lost him for the second ball/lost the man I was marking" Ekotto make the same mistakes game after game.
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To your first high lit point...agreed BUT there MUST be balance. I think Harry got it bang on with Parker, certainly proved me wrong and I am not afraid to admit it, and I also think Nelsen is a decent pick-up (if we'd kept Charlie he'd be even better)...but there must be balance! It's easy to manage experience, harder to manage youth/the blend, especially today's foppish young mawks!

To your second point...who? Make a suggestion? Gilberto?

I genuinely believe the truth lies between us; only a fool would deny Harry's success, but only a bigger fool would be blind to his glaring weaknesses, which have been exposed for the second season in a row.

I stand by my belief that there is stuff going on in his life we do not know about, and that he is sometimes emotional rather than clinical when making selection/sub decisions...and that is has cost us. Fine lines between coming 4th/5th and winning the Prem. I WILL say we have also had some appalling luck earlier in the season with refs...

COYS!
 
The only fudging reason Harry is still in charge is because we are going to get compensation from the FA for his services. Going to fudge us right up
 
Our collapse aside, what on earth are we gonna do next season? Our two goalkeepers are somewhere around 100 years old in total. We got King, Gallas and Nelsen at the back, all crooks. Our only striker of some quality is on loan. We don't have cover for our two full-backs or wingers, and Modric is gone this summer. The re-sale value of our fringe players have gone down dramatically, and there's no way we can afford to buy at least one new goalkeeper, a new CB pair and two new strikers who can keep us up there among the best teams, not to mention cover for the aforementioned positions.
 
according to Redknapp we shouldnt expect trophies, only 2 league cups in 20 years is proof of that

so that excuses Redknapp's four years in charge and no trophies

its all about Saint Harold
 
ess said:
Our collapse aside, what on earth are we gonna do next season? Our two goalkeepers are somewhere around 100 years old in total. We got King, Gallas and Nelsen at the back, all crooks. Our only striker of some quality is on loan. We don't have cover for our two full-backs or wingers, and Modric is gone this summer. The re-sale value of our fringe players have gone down dramatically, and there's no way we can afford to buy at least one new goalkeeper, a new CB pair and two new strikers who can keep us up there among the best teams.
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Under the assumption we will only let go players we want to let go, then my choice would be.........

Friedel
Corluka - Dawson - New Player - New Player
Lennon - Modric - Parker - Bale
VDV
New Player

For the squad I think we also need another forward, preferbly a deeper lying one to cover for VDV, another left back to cover the new left back, and another back up centre half. Hopefully Caulker will live up to the hype....
 
The Moonlit Knight said:
I'd think not. That would instantly render that person's opinion as worthless. You can't take games, either excellent or dreadful, in isolation to make rational judgements.
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Mate,genuine question,do you think Harry would still be in charge,given the past 2 months "form",if we weren't going to receive millions in compensation for his services? It would cost the club a lot of money. Not only in lost compensation,but also a subsequent pay off.
 
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