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Rumours of training ground bust up with Harry

seanwhite1961

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"Manager has lost the dressing room" rumours always start when a team has an extended bad run.

It has to be said that Twitter rumours do have a very low credibility rating. Fairly recently one saying David Ginola had died was running on there. IIRC, he'd had a skiing accident and been treated in hospital. A few years ago it was Jeff Goldblum dead after falling from a cliff in New Zealand(he was live and well at his American home).
 

marvel

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Blogs, Arsenal fans etc have all got hold of this rumour then. Guessing it will be be in papers too. Exactly what we didn't need.
 

Dan Ashcroft

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I would love it. Just love it. If Redknapp's career ended here, tonight, in failure.

He thought he could string us along whilst cavorting with England - hopefully now he'll have lost himself both
 

FinnYid

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Kaboul wasn't involved no, I'm HEARING now listen to me this is what I've heard it's not 100 percent solid. But they wanted a meeting regarding tactics, future managers, and where they fit in with the future of the club. I've been told that Harry said that the meeting was "nonsense and to focus on your football"

Taking up tactics with manager via captain(s) I can live with, but future managers, future of Harry, their future in the club??? Concentrate on present you two-penny primadonnas.
 

FinnYid

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Blogs, Arsenal fans etc have all got hold of this rumour then. Guessing it will be be in papers too. Exactly what we didn't need.

Shouldn't harm if it's not true or if it's overblown, ought to make them stand united next game.
 

kaz Hirai

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lol at believing Harry has gone around telling various players they will never play again :LOL:
 

ItsBoris

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This dressing room revolt will hopefully spark Levy to get rid of him. Our season is over unless we get in a Di Matteo now.


Think about it from a business viewpoint though. The FA will pay us about £10 - 15 million for Redknapp and his staff. If we fire Redknapp, we have to pay out his contract, say £5 million.

So by firing Redknapp we lose 15-20 million right off the bat. Regardless of what happens, us, Arsenal, Newcastle, Chelsea, and Liverpool are guaranteed European football of some kind. We will be in Europa league at worst, which will gain us an additional £20 million approximately as opposed to not being in it. CL football would mean about £40 million.

1. Keeping Redknapp and getting Europa league = ~30-35 million.
2. Sacking Redknapp and getting CL = ~35 million
3. Sacking Redknapp and getting Europa league = ~ 15 million
4. Keeping Redknapp and getting CL = ~50 - 55 million.

Admittedly I'm not an expert and idk the exact numbers but I imagine I'm pretty close, but maybe someone can correct me if I got any facts wrong. If I'm correct it's obvious why he isn't going to be fired. Levy can't take the risk of option 3 materializing, and is hopeful that option 4 could still happen.

Edit: I should add that I want nothing more than for him to be gone and I would love him to be fired, but from a financial point of view it seems to not make sense.
 

Dan Ashcroft

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Think about it from a business viewpoint though. The FA will pay us about £10 - 15 million for Redknapp and his staff. If we fire Redknapp, we have to pay out his contract, say £5 million.

So by firing Redknapp we lose 15-20 million right off the bat. Regardless of what happens, us, Arsenal, Newcastle, Chelsea, and Liverpool are guaranteed European football of some kind. We will be in Europa league at worst, which will gain us an additional £20 million approximately as opposed to not being in it. CL football would mean about £40 million.

1. Keeping Redknapp and getting Europa league = ~30-35 million.
2. Sacking Redknapp and getting CL = ~35 million
3. Sacking Redknapp and getting Europa league = ~ 15 million
4. Keeping Redknapp and getting CL = ~50 - 55 million.

Admittedly I'm not an expert and idk the exact numbers but I imagine I'm pretty close, but maybe someone can correct me if I got any facts wrong. If I'm correct it's obvious why he isn't going to be fired. Levy can't take the risk of option 3 materializing, and is hopeful that option 4 could still happen.

Edit: I should add that I want nothing more than for him to be gone and I would love him to be fired, but from a financial point of view it seems to not make sense.

Redknapp (and Bond and Jordan you assume) will only have 1 year left on his contract, so the figures will surely be nowhere near that high?
 

chrissivad

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Archibald on SO:

they are all aware of the lack of plan B and the same old training sessions and no new modern systems/ideas but they have been pretty unified..

Its the fact that the management team have now been shown up.. Maybe that is where the players are becoming wobbly as they now realise that however there isnt anarchy in the squad
 

ItsBoris

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Redknapp (and Bond and Jordan you assume) will only have 1 year left on his contract, so the figures will surely be nowhere near that high?
I've heard figures between 10 and 15 million as comp for Redknapp and his staff so idk, even if you wanted to put it between 5 and 10 million you can adjust those numbers and see that it still isn't worth the risk for Levy.
 

Misfit

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I'm going to file this under bullshit. No offence to anyone passing on info etc.

What we saw yesterday was pretty much the same old same old for the last month. I have no doubts that many in the squad are a little underwhelmed by it all on the training ground, conveniently ignoring their own short-comings of course.

Why would there be a revolt FFS. It's as clear as day that Harry and his band of merry coaches aren't going to be here next season. The whole world knows it. Just a couple of weeks left now. One or two of the players have already started making plans for life after THFC too.
 

gibbospurs

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surely it would only be paying out his and whoevers contracts.? If those figures are right then i can see why levy is stalling, but i thought you only got around 3million for winning the europa, let alone going out in the group stages like we normally do.
 

bomberH

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I would love it. Just love it. If Redknapp's career ended here, tonight, in failure.

He thought he could string us along whilst cavorting with England - hopefully now he'll have lost himself both

Not a surprising statement from you is it. Nevertheless, I hope you get chronic arthritis of the hands and never appear on any forum ever again. Even though you're going to get your wish in the next couple of weeks, you've been nothing short of a disgrace since he took over from your boyfriend. The thing is, I am 100% certain that you would rather we failed under Redknapp than be successful under him, just because you never liked him. I will never believe any counter argument because your posts throughout his successful period proves my point. Thus, you're not a true Spurs supporter, you're a supporter of individuals.

I'd love it, just love it, if some kind of conviction meant you weren't allowed access to the Internet again.
 

Krafty

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This story obviously isnt true.

Harry, on the training ground??? You're having me on.
 

chrissivad

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from Windy

Greg S is suggesting that there may have been a falling out, but nothing too major... which is hopefully good news on the Adebayor not playing again front
 
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