Move on people.DOF junked now.
Harrys in charge .No more foreign managers(till next time) Management team purged,baby and bathwater gone We won a game the futures bright.
Damian who?
I2 managers in 12 years.What price continuity?

It's simple. If he was that good Wenger wouldn't have let him go.

His record at Spurs was atrocious, all our players were over priced and lacking in real quality. Against Stoke we had one player (Lennon) who cost less that £7m. I'm glad he's gone and he should be ashamed of the job he did at Spurs.

The fact that we're in a worse position now than when he arrived says it all and will hopefully put an end to the argument that he 'had a good record' at Spurs. What a joke.

I think the Redknapp signing gives us some real perspective. He's a good manager but not a top manager and I think he's perfect for us right now, he wouldn't have been my first choice but I'm not disappointed in the slightest. We're not a top side anymore and we need some time to get our act together and hopefully Redknapp can get us back to where Jol go us too. And we shouldn't talk about CL for at least 3 years

I wish Both Ramos and Poyet well

Commoli (moreover the DOF role) single-handedly brought the club down to its knees. On a daily basis, head coaches and team managers have to train the squad, get them in shape for the games and progress. How can that process work effectively when some other person is interfering with it? I can understand why Levy chose to go with the DOF role but he's since held his hands up and abolished it. A sign that he is listening.

What we have needed for some time is for THE manager (regardless of who) to be allowed entire control of his squad. Conflicts of interest are not healthy in an evironment such as this (it's like a record company telling a band what to write and what not to write - the band needs creative control to maintain it's integrity). If Commoli had not been around when Jol took over, I bet he'd still be here now and we'd be seriously pushing for CL. As it is, we've had to wait until now to see the change we've all wanted for a few years. Its happened, I respect Levy for doing it (regardless of timing and all that crap etc etc etc) and Im glad its Redknapp we have.

This whole "Levy Goes Back to Basics" on the BBC Sport website is the clearest description of our situation that I have read. We've abandoned an unproven DOF setup. Abandoned foreign coaching staff. Employed a London-born bloke. Employed a cup winner. Employed an experienced Manager. Employed someone who gets results.

The most important thing in my opinion though, is that he's English. Not because Im "for English teams having English managers" etc, but because at the moment, we need someone who can communicate unequivocally and without ambiguity. Our foreign players will learn the English language quicker and therefore communication ON THE PITCH will improve.

For me Harry Redknapp IS the best man for the job. Forget whether he's a top manager or not (Ramos was / is a top manager - his time at Sevilla proved that), Redknapp has everything that the club needs AT THE MOMENT. Leadership, ambition, communication, drive and a grafter.

He will get the best out of what is, on paper, a fantastic set of players and I am sure we will succeed with him in charge.

interesting but doesnt really tell us more than we knew..........he was a jumped up scout who oversold himself and ended up in a role that was way too big for him.
Problem is he leaves with a big pay off and we are left with a club that has gone back 3 years

Spot on comments, although I do disagree with the comment about Harry, as we have never seen him WITH cash, so I feel its not fair to judge.

What I do feel is that with him the club will get its indentity back, which makes me happy.

Levy has made some bad decisions in the past, but the guy does have some balls to make amends... Which I do give him the respect for

While I am happy to return to the traditional management structure, there are some real flaws with the article.

Firstly, is the club considerably weaker than that which Comolli found? He found a club who had never finished above 7th in this league, and not won a trophy since 1999. Since then, we have finished 5th twice and won the league cup in three successive seasons.

Secondly, with regard to his signings: Taarabt has had limited opportunity but to deny his very obvious talent is ludicrous, he is nothing if not gifted. But, like many teenage footballers, he lacks direction and maturity. We may never see the player we anticipated, but having been signed very cheaply, I doubt his signing can be seen as damnation of whoever signed him.

Boateng, unlike Taarabt, has show nothing to suggest he could ever be a good player. And he was far more expensive. So, if he was a Comolli buy, then yes that was a poor decision.

Younes Kaboul was struggling to adapt, as a 21 year old in his first season in a new tougher league at an underperforming club. However, he did show glimpses of enourmous potential, and while he was an expensive signing, his transfer fee was fully recouped by his sale.

Ekotto was once again a very cheap signing, and has had some very poor games. He was once again, a very young foreign buy, and injury did not help his cause at all. Only now is he playing regularly, and he is getting better with every game, having played superbly on more than one occasion this season.

Zokora was bought as a result of the anticipated sale of Michael Carrick. We were losing our defensive midfielder, so we had to replace him. Zokora had just had a very impressive world cup, and was reputed through out Europe as a top class defensive midfielder. He's not my cup of tea, and I hope that he does not hold down a regular first team spot anymore, but we were one of many clubs willing to buy him, and those other clubs looking to buy him were in the most part of similar stature and ambition to us, if not of greater stature and ambition.

The signing of Dervite was a cheap signing of a teenage centre back with a lot of potential. He was by all accounts very good in all his early youth and reserve games, and the one time i saw him, in the league cup v Port Vale, he was fantastic. An injury not long after stopped his progress and apparantly since then he has not been the same. To judge Comolli on his signing is jsut plain retarded.

There are other youngsters who, if they come to fruition, I hope people remember that they came under the stewardship of Comolli. Bostock, Rose, Parrett. I bet that if any of them every makes it with us, not one person will mention of Comolli.

And also, may I just say, that were most of us not enthralled by the signings of Modric, Bentley, Giovani and Gomes. Well surely if the aforementioned players were brought by Comolli, so were these. And what about Woodgate, Hutton, Gunter, Bale, Malbranque and Berbatov? Surely to criticise Commoli for buying Zokora should fall hand in hand for praising him for signing this lot. And for those who want to add Bent and Pavlychenko to the anti-Comolli list, Bent has scored 4 league goals in 9 league games so far this season. The leaves him on course for 16 league goals, Berbatov and Keane's best season together reaped 15 goals each, last season. And Pavlyuchenko has scored no fewer goals so far than Berbatov had at this stage of his Spurs career, despite playing in a much more difficult situation, so give him a chance. He looked pretty good yesterday.

I am glad to see the back of Comolli. He undoubtedly made mistakes, and if he is responsible for the signing of Gilberto, that is reason enough for him to be out on his arse. But the best thing about his departure is that the agenda driven press have one less avanue with which to target our club, and the moron fans who believe everything they read have one less scapegoat for when things go wrong.

I agree with his sacking, but the fact that I feel compelled to defend him to the rafters is testament to the fact that the press, and those who believe it, are completely inept in their analysis of the guy and everything he has or has not done at our club.

As has been mentioned, if he was that good Wenger wouldn't have let him join St Etienne.
I got the distinct impression his knowledge of players (ready for the first team) wasn't deep enough - he seemed very reactive....
Pavlyuchenko - good Euros, sign him
Arshavin - good Uefa & Euros, go all out for him
Gomes - single handledly knocked us out the Uefa Cup, sign him
Bentley - 1 decent season at Blackburn, pay £13.5m more than he was bought for 1 year ago.
Ramos - cor Seville looked good when they knocked us out, get him.

I know there are always going to be good & bad signings but more importantly the shape of the squad we ended up with this season was not right. Still no priority positions - experienced centre half or CM, still no left mid. Not to mention our depleted forward line....!
I hope we recruit a specialist youth scout as this is still a vital area.

Just like every other frenchman on the planet - fucking useless!

except Ginola and Cantona oh and Veira and maybe Henry

What a nasty remark. It's your comment that is F**king useless!!

Agree with you entirely BBLG, you can find better writers on Ebay...

You forgot to add the major signing - Ramos, which at the time Levy said if it failed then Comolli would fall.

Idiot.

Well, they know how to play football and has won a few cups....alot later than 1966....

It will probably do you good do suck that in...

The good thing about Comolli's departure is the press will cease their ignorant and ridiculously critical characterisations of him. Starting now...

I guess that's a sad chapter the Spurs Opus closed. The previous saddest chapter was centred on another man from arsenal, Terry Neill. Coincidence? Touch the plague at your peril.

I give BBLG lots of credit for sticking to his guns - I was interested to see if I'd read people slagging Comolli off all the way down through the comments. There were a lot of vocal supporters of him on here.

But BBLG, regardless of your characterization of a crooked media and fans who believe everything they read, Comolli's wafer-thin CV was there for all to see all along. He's the Sarah Palin of football directors - totally unsuited to such an important role and way over his head. I don't like to get into individual signings or transfer windows because it's all just opinion on who's good and who isn't. But the undeniable fact is that, based on his CV, he shouldn't have been hired to be in the TOP JOB of the footballing side of our club in the first place.

I do not dispute what you are saying. I'm just saying that, regardless of how qualified or not, it is lunacy to think him responsible for the fact that we were 20th with 2 points from 8 games. As I said in another thread, even if we do think he did poorly in the transfer market, shuold this collection of players have ever been this low? Ask yourself this, how many players, even now, would you take from 2nd placed Hull?

Jeeeeeeesus!



Who took the jam outta your donut?