Jamie Redknapp's hit-piece on Levy and THFC

[spurs9]

So just for interest purposes who has rightly or wrongly ben sacked by Levy


1998 George Graham - ex arse manager. Got us a cup but woefully uninspiring football, the fans didnt take to him- rightly sacked
2001 David Pleat (C) - N\A
2001 Glenn Hoddle - Return of Hod the God - should have worked. But didnt - rightly sacked
2003 David Pleat (C) - N\A
2004 Jacques Santini - Surrendered nothing to do with Levy
2004 Martin Jol - bought the good times back to the lane - Should never have been sacked - Wrong
2007 Clive Allen (C) N\A
2007 Juande Ramos - got us a cup - good choice for replacement however levy and co went about it -failed miseraly - rightly sacked
2008 Harry Redknapp - best managr of a generation - champs league - exceptional football - shot himself in the foot - wrongly sacked
2012 André Villas-Boas - did he fall or was he pushed? - wrongly sacked
2013 Tim Sherwood - loved by few loathed by the rest - same points total as AVB - we know he's going to be sacked. - right or wrong? I just dont know. against overwhemling opinion I think he should get the job. we have sacked and sacked and sacked. we have a whole new training ground to promote youth development. but we never use it. Who better to decide who out of our younger squad is ready to progess than the very person charged with pogressing them? I think his tactics will come good and also think he will calm down if he knows this isnt just a stay of excecution. problem is h is very near the top of most peoples most hated spurs managers of all time.

I agree with most of what you put but just to add:

George Graham - the reason for his sacking was apparently breach of code of conduct to which he was given 2 written warnings previous on on the third breach had to be sacked. The timing was unfortunate, but Levy had no choice.

Martin Jol - the way he found out/way it happened was appalling but the decision was correct. We were going backwards for the second season in a row. I'm sure if there were signs of improvement he would have stayed, but the opposite was happening.

Harry Redknapp - Correct decision. You can't say Levy didn't back him, he supported him through his court case and then, when it was over he not only publicly flirted with the England job, he dropped the ball on his current job then asked for a new contract. Total disrespect.

André Villas-Boas - At the time I thought it was the wrong decision and he should have been given to the end of the season, but now I am not too sure. Some of the comments made by players, journalists and ITK's lead me to believe that he had lost the dressing room and caused frictions off the pitch. If that is true, then he had to go.

 

[yankspurs]

Ramos had all those players except VDV

And we won a trophy under him.

 

[spurs9]

Ramos had all those players except VDV

Come on mate, Modric was in his first season in England and Bale was 18.

 

[yankspurs]

I agree with most of what you put but just to add:
André Villas-Boas - At the time I thought it was the wrong decision and he should have been given to the end of the season, but now I am not too sure. Some of the comments made by players, journalists and ITK's lead me to believe that he had lost the dressing room and caused frictions off the pitch. If that is true, then he had to go.

What did the players say? And the club was doing all it could to disparage Andre so I am taking everything the ITKs and journos said with a massive grain of salt. He should have been given until the end of the season.

 

[spurs9]

AVB was such a poor decision that you have to question Levy's ability to pick our Managers. I guess LVG is a kind of safe bet.

If he is left to do his thing, it could work.

Such a poor decision got us our highest ever points total (in the EPL) in his first season and our first win at Old Trafford in 22 years. No-one could have predicted how this season went.

 

[spurs9]

What did the players say? And the club was doing all it could to disparage Andre so I am taking everything the ITKs and journos said with a massive grain of salt. He should have been given until the end of the season.

I can't remember which exactly which players commented but I am pretty sure one was Kaboul and he stated how it was a huge relief to have someone in as a manager who knew what it was like to be a player.

 

[NEVILLEB]

Such a poor decision got us our highest ever points total (in the EPL) in his first season and our first win at Old Trafford in 22 years. No-one could have predicted how this season went.

I did predict it. As did lots of others.

Bale was the only good attacking force last season and without him we were toothless.

 

[NEVILLEB]

Come on mate, Modric was in his first season in England and Bale was 18.

Redknapp's impact was immense.

It's disgusting how many fans are quick to stick the knife in when he picked the team up from the relegation zone and brought us Champions League Football.

Absolutely no gratitude. Embarrassing.

 

[HoddlesBoot]

Good article IMO. Pretty much agree with everything he says.

 

[jambreck]

Can't stand the smarmy git.........HOWEVER....I think that this

Jamie Redknapp has hit out at Daniel Levy's treatment of Tim Sherwood and claimed the Tottenham chairman's trigger-happy approach could scare off reputable replacements.

is why Rodgers decided not to come to Spurs, I read an interview with him recently alluding to this anyway - but yeah Redknapp is just a wally, it's got to the point were I change the channel when he comes on.

Rodgers is talking shit, IMO.

He might well have been one of the names on our shortlist but I've seen no evidence to suggest that he was ever actually offered the job.

Furthermore, if frequently sacking managers was indeed a decisive factor in his choice, then why the fuck did he choose to join Liverpool, whose new owners had sacked two managers in the space of the solitary year that they had been at the club? Spurs, meanwhile, had kept their previous manager for four years.

I suspect that he said what he said in much the same way that players signing for a club are always keen to tell the fans of that club about all the other clubs that they turned down. It's the easiest possible way to curry favour.

 

[spurs9]

Redknapp's impact was immense.

It's disgusting how many fans are quick to stick the knife in when he picked the team up from the relegation zone and brought us Champions League Football.

Absolutely no gratitude. Embarrassing.

You are right. Harry Redknapp was the perfect man for us when he came in and exceeded expectations.

 

[spurs9]

I did predict it. As did lots of others.

Bale was the only good attacking force last season and without him we were toothless.

Really? You didn't sound like you it in this post.

This window has seen him return to the strategy he tried to pull off with Juande Ramos. But this time he's got a class Director of Football and he's absolutely smashed this window.

I've always hammered Levy for his last minute deals but he's learn't from his mistakes and we are reaping the benefits.

Well done Levy, Baldini and AVB.

 

[StartingPrice]

The more I see of Jamie Redknapp the more I think of him as a foolish and petty little man who used to be fairly good at football but doesn't seem to understand much about it, is incorrect in believing that the fact of being his father somehow makes 'Arry free from imperfection and mistakes having kicked a ball about a bit with actually having an in depth knowledge of how to run a football club.

And he hasn't got that much right - apart from anything else, his main thesis is a non-sequitur: just because Levy has dismissed a few managers/head coaches (and no, three and a half years isn't being trigger happy) that does not mean Levy actually enjoys the act of firing them. Maybe he yearns for the day when he truly can have someone who knows what he is doing, can be trusted, understands his place in the set-up and can just be left to get the hell on with it. Unfortunately, Jaimo, me old bean, your pops just wasn't that fella. Get over it!

 

[NEVILLEB]

Really? You didn't sound like you it in this post.

I was very happy with the speed at which Levy got the deals done in last summer's window. I have always criticised him for his last minute deals but last summer he brought in the new players early and before selling Bale.

I was a big fan of Eriksen so his capture really pleased me.

Having criticised him a lot I had to give him credit for doing the very thing I had been asking him to do.

 

[StartingPrice]

Modric was signed before the end of the season (unless the theory is he was a dog-end from the summer before).
VDV was as late a late signing as could be - so what!

Rodgers is talking shit, IMO.

He might well have been one of the names on our shortlist but I've seen no evidence to suggest that he was ever actually offered the job.

Furthermore, if frequently sacking managers was indeed a decisive factor in his choice, then why the fuck did he choose to join Liverpool, whose new owners had sacked two managers in the space of the solitary year that they had been at the club? Spurs, meanwhile, had kept their previous manager for four years.

I suspect that he said what he said in much the same way that players signing for a club are always keen to tell the fans of that club about all the other clubs that they turned down. It's the easiest possible way to curry favour.

I agree.

What disturbs me is just how quickly folk, especially Spurs fans, have dispensed with logical analysis of the facts in order to fawn all over Rodgers' currying favour BS.
There is no evidence he was offered the job and I, for one, am fairly certain that he would have taken the Spurs job in a heart-beat if offered it.
Liverpool, as you say, had just sacked two managers in a year (yeah, I'm sure Roy Hodgson is thinking about just how phenomenally loyal they were with him!), at precisely the time he would have been replacing a manager who was given three and a half years and wasn't dismissed for strictly footballing reasons, unlike the he hasn't won us the league SACK HIM Liverpudlian toss-pots.
And, according to Frank de Boer, Ronald was approached about the Liverpool job. He has never been clear about when that was, but most likely it was either at the time Rodgers was employed (making a mockery of his claim that he be the only candidate or he'd walk) or last Summer (making a mockery of the present claim that the Liverpool board were phenomenally loyal with him even though he was pretty poor last season).

Now, with one good season, everyone is acting like they are the Liverpool team of the 70's/80's reborn - and he is whipping it up for this title run-in with everyone lapping it up. It's BS.

 

[remember91]

Personal message to Jamie Redknapp:

Our club gave your dad the best professional opportunity that he had in his whole career. Ledley, Rafa, Luca and Bale in one team! And he failed! The best opportunity our club had and he lost it because he thought he was better than us, he thought he could be England manager.

Well done, another season in the championship with QPR, well done.

You have the balls to slag off our club! Blanchflower, Mackay, Hoddle and Bill fucking Nicholson!

And you a man who's claim to fame is being Steve McManamans bitch.

Fuck Off!

 

[danielneeds]

The worst thing is, if Lamela or Capoue makes a blinding start to next season, Jamie will be fawning over them in his shitty little column, "what a player, Spurs will be lucky to keep hold of him...etc etc"

 

[thinktank]

The worst thing is, if Lamela or Capoue makes a blinding start to next season, Jamie will be fawning over them in his shitty little column, "what a player, Spurs will be lucky to keep hold of him...etc etc"

Exactly.

 

[NEVILLEB]

Jamie is obviously pissed at Levy. I guess he's being loyal to his Dad which is fairly normal whilst using Levy's faults as ammunition for an attack.

 

[Mr Pink]

Rodgers is talking shit, IMO.

He might well have been one of the names on our shortlist but I've seen no evidence to suggest that he was ever actually offered the job.

Furthermore, if frequently sacking managers was indeed a decisive factor in his choice, then why the fuck did he choose to join Liverpool, whose new owners had sacked two managers in the space of the solitary year that they had been at the club? Spurs, meanwhile, had kept their previous manager for four years.

I suspect that he said what he said in much the same way that players signing for a club are always keen to tell the fans of that club about all the other clubs that they turned down. It's the easiest possible way to curry favour.

Also he's probably pretty pissed that a few players signed for us over them.