- Aug 5, 2009
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Look, Spak, if it makes you feel any better, for fear of beating my own drum , I said last Summer that AVB had taken on such a big job way too soon, he had made a horrible choice of jobs, and that I thought he was on the definitive hiding to nothing, due to his previous work as a relative menial at the club, the nature of his remit (again, see above), the fact that he had no experience in the EPL, the fact that Chelsea were no longer the undisputed richest kids on the block who could outspend anyone, and the simple plain fact that at 32 YO he was being asked to manage players older than him who he was supposed to phase out and had created something of a poisonous dressing-room. It seemed obvious to me that once he had a few bad results (always going to happen with a remit like his), those older players were going to start acting the Billy and demanding to know who this kid was.
In hindsight, he made the best choice and not just for us. He is now at the a club that shares his philosophy, new training facilities and more importantly, the ability to build a club that encompasses his style football, not for now but for the future. Very very few managers have the chance to undertake or even get the backing to fully implement their ideals from the youth squad to the senior and create something truly amazing.
The only problem now is, not the results, but those Spurs fan who refuse to see or even appreciate what is going on, far to many by the likes of the Mirror and Sun newspapers and take it as gospel. Very few spurs fans actually come to this forum (even if there are a few thousand) and debate and have the discussion we do, as the majority are arguing it out what the papers say.
This is the problem for Spurs, it is not the manager or the results, but those Spurs fans who just can not realise or see the bigger picture fo what we are trying to see and how Harry Redknapp and for all his good work, would simply never be able to achieve. Walkers comments in the papers today confirm this, training has got serious (with fun of course), learning tactics, developing styles of play etc etc, it is something that Harry just would nto be able to do in the modern game.