Harry on Comolli...

[Arazi440]

Different type of player. Carrick was very influential for us and allowed us to play a sitting player and a player who could get up and down. Zokora couldn't really do that and so we then 2 players who had t get up and down which left is exposed.

Zokora was a good player imo but just not what we needed at the time. Certainly good enough to get into many prem teams even now!

mg: you having a laugh, he was next to useless, constantly giving away free kicks in dangerous areas, appalling passing, appalling shooting, couldn,t head the ball, no composure and tackled on a football pitch like Boris Johnson, a truly poor quality midfielder.

 

[SpurSince57]

Comolli made some preposterous claims. Harry was asked to comment on them and duly did. What's the big deal, especially as the little shit played no small part in one of the worst years in Spurs' history?

 

[Spurger King]

mg: you having a laugh, he was next to useless, constantly giving away free kicks in dangerous areas, appalling passing, appalling shooting, couldn,t head the ball, no composure and tackled on a football pitch like Boris Johnson, a truly poor quality midfielder.

Very true, but apart from that though...:lol:

 

[gibbs131]

Sloth, I bet you'd hate having Mourinho here.

He just called Wenger a loser.

 

[DogsOfWar]

Commolli did a fantastic job for us and Redknapp should really give him some sort of credit for it.

What's happened is that players like Bale, BAE, Gomes and Kaboul are suddenly rated so Commolli's role, quite rightly, has been re-evaluated.

Now had Redknapp said Commolli signed some fantastic players but we just needed balance in the squad then great but his refusal to admit this is wrong.

Harry should of simply said this and then outlined that the bringing in of Defoe, Crouch, VdV, Gallas and Palacios (as well as some top class man management) were the catalyst for our current success.

 

[gibbs131]

Commoli got the going rate for most players.

He didn't exactly unearth any players for peanuts.

 

[danielneeds]

Pluses: Comolli signed us some great players

Minuses: He never address some glaring problems in the squad makeup - ie centre midfield, and his whispering in Levy's ear resulted in one of the sorriest incidents in our history in Ramosgate.

I think this is a great example of journalists twisting quotes which has set two people against each other. In Comolli's original interview with the BBC, in no way does he try to undermine Redknapp's achievements, merely states his happiness that so many of his signings are prospering. Harry probably wouldn't have read that, only hearing a journalist tell him that Comolli is saying that their current success is based on his signings - so Harry has a little dig. Journalists, they are a bunch of scumbags.

 

[AnotherSpursFan]

Bit harsh comparing zokora to rocha there :lol:

that is true, rocha is so much better than zokora

 

[ackie]

Whether we like it or not he made some great signing and also some poor signings. Let give him credit for the likes of BAE, Gomes, BALE, Modric...even Kaboul...

 

[double0]

Zokora was a superb professional, covered every blade of grass when playing in the white shirt of Tottenham, always put in a shift in a 442 formation.

Think he deserve some respect (not in the same bracket as Rocha)

 

[JimmyG2]

Comolli's record with us was decent, 9 of the current squad are signings made on his watch:
Corluka Gomes,Bale ,Modric Pavlyuchenko,Kaboul,Ekotto, Hutton and Bentley.
He also signed Berbatov, Woodgate, Rose, Bostock and Taarabt who may yet come back to haunt us.
He was neither brilliant nor 'rubbish'.
The set-up was wrong and was clearly dismantled as a condition of Harry's appointment.
Harry has built on the this foundation brilliantly and developed a cohesive unit on the firm foundations which previous regimes established.

 

[SpurSince57]

Whether we like it or not he made some great signing and also some poor signings. Let give him credit for the likes of BAE, Gomes, BALE, Modric...even Kaboul...

About the only successful signing he made who can reasonably be described as an unknown. He hardly 'discovered' any of those you mention.

 

[Bus-Conductor]

Anyone else wish he'd just shut the fuck up? Probably not, I know many of you probably agree, but ghe really fucking annoys me with this shit, if he hasn't got something good to say then don't say anything. It's not difficult. But it's the shitty heavy sarcasm that really gets me...

Anyway, onto the meat of his argument. How many players who played against Arsenal or Werder were signed before Harry's arrival at the club?

Pav, Defoe, Lennon, Bale, Modric, Jenas, Lennon, BAE, Kaboul, Hutton and Gomes.

How many since?

Palacios, Gallas and Crouch.

How many rubbish Commolli players did he sign from us when he was at Portsmouth?

How many Commoli players who didn't make the grade were sold on at a profit?

Now I'm not saying the Frenchman was amazing or anything, but he doesn't deserve Harry's withering put-down.

Then we hear that we've lost our top European scout, the man we'd ear-marked to be in charge of European operations to... Commoli at Liverpool. Why didn't he want to stay with us?

Anyway sometimes, like I say, I wish he'd just keep his mouth closed.

I couldn't agree more.

Redknapp is good at identifying what's needed and buying proven, players, but one of the reasons he wouldn't want to relinquish that role to someone else is because that is his forte. If you took that role away all he'd be left with is coaching......

I made a reference to the fact that we don't seem to be signing the Bale's, Lennon's, Hudd's, Bostocks, Taraabt's, Kaboul's anymore in the Arnesen thread.

I like the players Redknapp signs mostly but you also need this development/procurement program as well.

 

[Bus-Conductor]

About the only successful signing he made who can reasonably be described as an unknown. He hardly 'discovered' any of those you mention.

It's not always about being completely unknown though is it. There's no such thing in football anymore anyway. It's also about being prepared to stake you job on paying 10m for a kid like Bale, or 6 million for a player like Kaboul. They were kids with potential but as we have seen a thousand times for every Bale there's a Marney, for every Kaboul there's a Dervitte.

It's about us being the one that ultimately takes the gamble on Berbatov (for every Berbatov there's Pavlyuchenko) and had a couple of great years and 20 million in the bank.

Bent and Bentley were awful signings in every way. They were over valued, over rated and were just plain wrong for this club at this time and have lost us money.

But overall, his gambles, signings and young players far out way those two disastrous ones both in the footballing legacy and the financial one.

I'm pretty sure when reckoned up, his football/financial account with us would be in credit.

 

[Stavrogin]

Don't forget that Commoli is a divisive figure within football. At arsenal, as well as with us, there's the feeling that he's tried to take credit for signings where other people did all the legwork.

Maybe Redknapp knows more than we do and it influences his reaction. It may have been this Hitchin guy who found/recommended BAE, and they're stiff miffed that Commoli has pinched him from us.

 

[piedpiper]

He did a lot of other stuff at the club behind the scenes which goes unmentioned but rather the focus of his time here centres on the transfers.

I think we are far superior and more professional club because of his time here.

:beer:, i can drink to that. what he did to BMJ still urkes me, but i can recognise he brought in some quality players.

 

[Coyboy]

If you took that role away all he'd be left with is coaching......

and management, you know his job. Cynicism and bias aside, Redknapp probably likes to choose who he signs because those are the players he will manage on a daily basis and because he trusts his own judgement. I mean, it's not as if his counterparts managing teams at the top of the league are charged with recruitment as well.

I am pretty sure he wouldn't have signed Bent, Bentley or Boateng.

 

[Bus-Conductor]

Glory, Glory Harryluya eh Coyboy.

Of course, any criticism must be biased. How can it not be.

 

[There's always next year]

About the only successful signing he made who can reasonably be described as an unknown. He hardly 'discovered' any of those you mention.

I disagree slightly here, as Modric was hardly a household name before he came to us.
I know he had a couple of good games v England in the Euro 2008 qualifiers, but he was never the name people were begging us to sign.

 

[Coyboy]

Glory, Glory Harryluya eh Coyboy.

Of course, any criticism must be biased. How can it not be.

I knew you would come up with a childish response.