No way Harry will be the next England manager

[Jay The Yid]

Just seen Harry's interview after yesterday debacle and there is no way this man will be able to do the England job. To me he looked like a broken man with the world on his shoulders. Seems the season has really taken its toll. i don't think he would be able to deal with the increased scrutiny the England job brings. He also doesnt seem to take criticism very well at all at get very defensive when asked a negative question and this type of question will be asked all the time to the England manager. Just dont think he would be able to deal with it.

besides i don't even think he is the right man anyway. He is tactically clueless and he wont have the quality of player he has at Spurs to get him out of trouble. Ferguson or Mourinho wouldnt do anything for England as we simply dont have the quality of players needed.

Its very possible he will get the sack from spurs anyway if we dont get top 4 and from being hailed as the spurs savior and lined up for the England post to being out of a job in a few months time.

As a spurs legend once said....Its a funny old game...

 

[NEVILLEB]

Are you smoking crack?

1 month ago he was God

 

[Jay The Yid]

Never thought he was god.

We have been shit for months and he has got away with it. So much was wrong about yesterday and for the first time this season questions are being asked.

 

[Wirral Spurs]

Tactically dreadful yesterday. When 2000 people have to get you to change tactics, you have to question what's going on!

 

[tototoner]

good, hope we sign him up on a new 4 year deal this summer

 

[EastLondonYid]

However Harry has done it, he has transformed us and big respect to him for that,always.
Team formations are rather baffling at the moment, simple solution ...just fucking play the players in their right fucking positions and beat crap like Everton.

I can see us putting it right though and still getting 3rd, it wouldn't be Tottenham if we didn't make it harder than it should be, would it?

 

[Dr Know]

Let's not be disrespecting Harry here. Yes, I like many was unhappy with the last few games but Harry has done wonders for our club. I would even go as far as to say the great Martin Jol couldn't have done this good for us.
Harry is only human and he's had a court case to deal with and straight after that the England job became vacant and again he's in the spotlight. Harry is very patriotic and on many occasions has said it would be very difficult to turn down the England job. Now having done so well at Spurs and the England job calling, I can't begin to imagine how torn up this guy is inside.
To be honest the best result would be for him to take the England job as I feel if he stays it will play on his mind for months and again this might well bring bad results for us.

 

[specspurs]

However Harry has done it, he has transformed us and big respect to him for that,always.
Team formations are rather baffling at the moment, simple solution ...just fucking play the players in their right fucking positions and beat crap like Everton.

I can see us putting it right though and still getting 3rd, it wouldn't be Tottenham if we didn't make it harder than it should be, would it?

So,so true, completely agree.

Problem is Harry didn't prepare for injuries to our wingers by buying back-up of some kind in the January window.

I know its difficult to find the right players but effectively we really only have two worthwhile wingers in the squad,Bale and Lennon. When they're out Harry completely unbalances the whole team to compensate and our performances suffer. The same could be said for right backs as there's only really Kyle Walker.

Sadly,I can only assume this failure to act is entirely Harry's

 

[ItsBoris]

It would be a train wreck in slow motion imho, but I think you underestimate how clueless and foolish the FA are. He will be offered the job certainly.

If you look at the coaches for the top nations - Loew, Del Bosque, the dutch guy (can't spell his name), Laurent Blanc, and if England choose him Harry Redknapp, it's obvious who stands out there. HR is the only 'arm around your shoulder' type manager there, the rest are all clued in on the tactics and strategy of the game. You need someone like Hoddle or Venables for the England job imo. Harry's style just wont work imho.

 

[Caco]

We've lost to Arsenal(who have been rapidly improving and were always likely to finish in the top 4), Man Utd(who are the masters at winning when being outplayed) and Everton(who always finish the season strong, especially at home). TBF, you're unlikely to get three harder fixtures in a row this season.
Liverpool have had the same string of results and they're next game is against Everton.
Last season we were losing at home to Wolves and drawing against all the bottom teams at home. Every team has a bad run, we will finish in the champions league spots and Harry will be back to being our messiah in May!

 

[EastLondonYid]

We've lost to Arsenal(who have been rapidly improving and were always likely to finish in the top 4), Man Utd(who are the masters at winning when being outplayed) and Everton(who always finish the season strong, especially at home). TBF, you're unlikely to get three harder fixtures in a row this season.
Liverpool have had the same string of results and they're next game is against Everton.
Last season we were losing at home to Wolves and drawing against all the bottom teams at home. Every team has a bad run, we will finish in the champions league spots and Harry will be back to being our messiah in May!

The point your failing to see is that we are losing games through mistakes in our formation and players playing in their wrong positions.
Yes i believe we will still finish 3rd, and Harry is the 'messiah' if you like, but what people are moaning about is NOT that we are on a losing streak ,that happens,but its that its so obvious why we are losing and we should put it fucking right before we DO fuck it up.

 

[class of 62]

We've lost to Arsenal(who have been rapidly improving and were always likely to finish in the top 4), Man Utd(who are the masters at winning when being outplayed) and Everton(who always finish the season strong, especially at home). TBF, you're unlikely to get three harder fixtures in a row this season.
Liverpool have had the same string of results and they're next game is against Everton.
Last season we were losing at home to Wolves and drawing against all the bottom teams at home. Every team has a bad run, we will finish in the champions league spots and Harry will be back to being our messiah in May!

excuse's fella.. 4 points from 21 playing the top 5 teams so far this season..
we're collapsing the same as we did last season when 2 wins from 16 prem games cost us ecl football.
its ok being able to motivate players all the time but when push comes to shove & you havn't learnt a shred of tactical nouse in 30 years as a manager you are going to get battered when your opponents are tacticians & know what your going to do.
if he does get the national job he will be found out quicker than kevin keegan!!

 

[Kendall]

The point your failing to see is that we are losing games through mistakes in our formation and players playing in their wrong positions.
Yes i believe we will still finish 3rd, and Harry is the 'messiah' if you like, but what people are moaning about is NOT that we are on a losing streak ,that happens,but its that its so obvious why we are losing and we should put it fucking right before we DO fuck it up.

I disagree that 4-5-1 would've improved our chances of scoring at Everton though.

 

[EastLondonYid]

I disagree that 4-5-1 would've improved our chances of scoring at Everton though.

Your entitiled to disagree...but i think if we had played 4-2-3-1 we would have controlled the game from the start with Luka influencing the game from the middle of the park, instead we were left with 2 CM'S who can't create to save their lives and Luka stuck out on the left where he is not at his best , Bale on the right where he is not at his best, so i disagree with you mate, i think by probably controlling the game from the off we would have created more more goalscoring chances with VDV in the hole,rather than the desperate hit and hope we saw in the 2nd half when Everton had something to cling on to.

 

[mrlilywhite]

I have often wondered how life would be had redknapp not been appointed, Of course he got a talented but morale savaged team out of the bottom and really deserved the plaudits he got for that and amen for that, I could not see any other manager doing what he done that season and for that regardless of what issues we have with him now should never be forgotten.

The hypothetical question though is what a manager like Moyes could do with our squad, Never mind a jose? If we had a manager that could provide a tactical prowess and a arm around the shoulder approach, Would things be any better or worse than the current situation?

You can not deny that Redknapp has done us more good than harm but how much is that down to the players talent we have? Could another manager utilise Vdv or Modric better? What about formation? Could we have a better, more fluid approach? My main question though is would we be able to sustain consistency better than we have done?

I believe that the grass is not always greener on the other side, But my curiosity eats at me somewhat and feel that just maybe, there might be that manager apart from the special one that could combine the best of both worlds and do just a good a job if not a better one than Redknapp has, Part of me feels that he may have gone a bridge too far with us, Though I would never discount what he has done for this club and will ever be in his gratitude for the marvelous years he has given us as fans.

Please Harry take a bow and take a seat at the highest place for English managers, England needs you as much as we needed you back then.

 

[specspurs]

Your entitiled to disagree...but i think if we had played 4-2-3-1 we would have controlled the game from the start with Luka influencing the game from the middle of the park, instead we were left with 2 CM'S who can't create to save their lives and Luka stuck out on the left where he is not at his best , Bale on the right where he is not at his best, so i disagree with you mate, i think by probably controlling the game from the off we would have created more more goalscoring chances with VDV in the hole,rather than the desperate hit and hope we saw in the 2nd half when Everton had something to cling on to.

Nail on the head!
I want to give you positive rep again but I can't.

 

[OllieSpurs1882]

Redknapp's managerial ability is being tested again. 3 defeats on the bounce now, 2 pretty poor performances against Stevanage which people also forget.

It's starting to look quite similiar to last season, apart from the fact we could blame that poor run on Champions League football...

Im not one to panic.. but i've always believed Redknapp tactically is not the best manager in the world.

 

[stemark44]

Harry is the luckiest manager in the world to have a squad of talent like ours and with what he has at his disposal,we really should be title contenders.
Arsenal,Utd,Chelsea and Liverpool are all average teams and this is the weakest league I have seen in 10 years.
I said last year that his blueprint is simply getting his best 11 players on to the pitch every game and hoping that they outplay the opposition.He doesn't really do rotation.

The only way he will improve a team is to buy better/more consistent players because there is very little coaching or tactics involved in his management framework.

If something goes' wrong and we come up against well organised/well drilled teams who press us in the right area's and stop us playing our gung ho,kamikaze open football or if Harry picks the wrong players and wrong formation................we are fucked.

The problem is that Harry can't answer questions on what we are doing wrong and gets very defensive when asked them and the simple reason for that is ....................he really doesn't know what we did to get into third place,there is no clearly defined structure to our football and therefore can't fix anything when things go tits up.

I really like Harry as a person but I sincerely hope that he gets the England job and we get a top class manager and coaching staff this summer.

 

[OllieSpurs1882]

The problem with Redknapp is that whatever point you bring up about him people will always say ''you had 2 points from 8 games when he took over''

I get alot of slating from my mates because of my view on Redknapp. But whenever i say something bad about him, they always bring up those points and the Champions League.

Theres no doubt he's good at getting the best out of players i.e motivating individual players when there playing poorly etc.. but tactically i really do struggle to see it.

How many times do u see Redknapp change tactics, or make a sub during a match where it drastically changes something like the scoreline? Not very often. As the poster said above, he is a 'pick your best team and hope manager'.

He's not won anything as a manager, he won the FA Cup with Pompey with a half decent team, but on the way he only played Championship teams and got very lucky against Manchester United.

Other then that, his managerial career hasnt been very special, thats for sure.

 

[Paolo10]

The point your failing to see is that we are losing games through mistakes in our formation and players playing in their wrong positions.
Yes i believe we will still finish 3rd, and Harry is the 'messiah' if you like, but what people are moaning about is NOT that we are on a losing streak ,that happens,but its that its so obvious why we are losing and we should put it fucking right before we DO fuck it up.

No we are not.