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Yidoinoz

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Arry has always been labelled the Del boy of football management, he likes a big squad and isn't shy of shipping players out in order to get a player in.

After the last transfer window I looked a the size of our squad a thought "Harry really has taken the Yid ARMY too far". 32 first team players on the books, admittedly half a dozen on loan but how is he going to keep all of them happy.

One by one the squad has been shrinking, groin injuries seem to be the 'in thing'. But Harry's big squad policy has saved our season, 16, yes 16 first team players out on loan or injured. Villa would struggle, City may cope but Liverpool would be in a relegation battle, they lose Gerrard and they are clueless, imagine if they lost the likes of Kuyt, Carra etc etc.

I know some may say Harry messed up sending players on loan but I disagree, he had to do this to get answers, are they good enough playing week in week out in the Prem and can some of them find their form and come back a new player next season.

And on the list of 16, I would more than back this team to beat Pompey next week.........

Cudicini
Hutton (loan)
King
Woodgate
Naughton (loan)

Lennon (injured)
Bentley (injured)
Hudd (injured)
Jenas (injured)

Keane (loan)
Defoe (injured)

Subs
Pav (injured)
O'Hara (loan)
Rose (injured)
Walker (injured)
Dos Santos (loan)
 

davidmatzdorf

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It's interesting, but I think your article has a flaw, which is that Redknapp has never had a "big squad policy". Until now, he's always worked for clubs where he had to do canny deals to keep his quite small squads topped up with a good balance of players.

He said quite clearly when he decided to take the job with us that what attracted him was that he would finally be able to work at a club that could afford to keep a good-sized squad with good players throughout the side and equally good backup. That was the main attraction of managing a "big club": by implication, that he could get through the whole season without having to patch up a lean squad.

So it isn't Harry's policy it's Spurs' policy.
 

minesadouble

Drove my Chevy to the Levy
Jul 27, 2006
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Totally agree that it's Club policy not Harry's.

As an aside, I wrote something yesterday but my home computer froze before I could post it. There are too many people on this site who moan about "Harry sending players out on loan". If it were only up to Harry I'm sure he'd have kept a few more players in January even allowing for the fact you can't keep everybody happy if they don't get games. The fact is that he has to operate within budgets generally and salary budgets in particular. If he'd purchased or borrowed 4 extra strikers and loaned out our entire defence to pay for them you could criticise him for misallocation of resources. But you can't criticise him for having to make decisions within overall financial constraints set by the Club.
 

SelbYido

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Jan 31, 2007
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I was discussing the injury situation with a work colleague & actually worked out that we can make a very decent XI out of our injured players, with the one exception of left-back...

Cudicini
(LB)
King
Woodgate
Walker
Lennon
Jenas
Huddlestone
Bentley
Defoe
Pav

...& that's ignoring the loan players, as well. I only hope that the list doesn't get any longer.
 
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