Good afternoon.
Carlo Ancelotti left the hot seat at Second Hand Fridge on the 22nd of May to join The Special One and Scolari who waited nine months and a year respectively before re immersing themselves in football.
I have been told that Carlo has been sounded out quite recently by a senior shadowy figure in our ‘Sounding Out Department.’
This ought to happen. But then their isn’t a successful business model in the world based on the word ‘ought’. Just see ‘journalists ought to get paid for writing copy’ and The Times’ paw wall for details.
For all the good that has Arry has done, it is not the work of a media conspiracy that the bulk of fans want him to shut up and focus on managing
For those of you joining us late, I have repeatedly said that I believe Redschnapps is a great crisis manager on that basis he’ll excel for the FA as the England team has been in a permanent state of crisis since they won the World Cup.
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there are many great managers available and i expect us to go foreign. I expect harry to go before xmas as you are correct in stating that he is asking to be sacked by causing trouble where there isnot any, VDV affair is rediculous as we could need a win from our last game to go through but one of our best players will be at home.
Graham got sacked for less, this season will be written off soon if we lose in greece and stoke thus leaving us with only fa cup to play for.
Joe Lewis is in town so i expect things to start happening on a lot of fronts, he get rids of people like rednapp quick. I would be very surprised if redknapp was not on a warning. the biggest thing was harry did not know about sandro deal.
Graham got sacked for being an utterly shit manager that every single fan hated and no player wanted to play for.
WHo are these great foreign managers you speak of? Are they as great as we were told Ramos was? Or Scolari? Or Fabio? Or Gross, Or Santini? Or Houllier? Are they great like Grant was maybe?Perhaps Dr Jo Venglos is available (apologies to anyone under 35 for that one)?
i yield to no man in my dislike of all things arsenal, but graham won a cup and a good number of others had failed
No player wanted to play for? they did at arse and loved him.He never stood a chance at Spurs because of us,the fans. I do wonder if given a bit of support what he could have achieved
Who did? Who played for him at Arse? A bunch of (admitedly talented) kids and nobodies he signed from Scandinavia. He had an effective way of playing in the late 80s/early 90s, but today he’d be lucky to stay in the championship. The only true world class player we had then was Ginola. Do you think he liked playing for GG? He slung his hook at the first opportunity.
If we dont have a strong enough squad without VDV to be competing in the UEFA group stages then we dont deserve to be there
The FA deserve all they get. They re-hired Capello despite the total shambles of the World Cup and Euro 2012 will not be any better. Having said this I do not think Harry will get the job, so he will stay at Spurs or get fired. If the latter Ancelotti is not the man for the job. Give a British manager the chance. Hughes, Coyle or even Allaredyce would be better.
If we don’t improve (this season) upon our previous league positions under HR then, come the end of the season, yes, CA would be a suitable replacement. Talk of HR’s replacement is otherwise unwarranted and a tad previous.
…unless saggy chops bundles himself off to the England job in the meantime.
I don’t think “Sounding Out Departments” place anywhere near enough emphasis on the thickness of the hair atop the soundee’s head. As a rule, there seems to me to be a pretty direct inverse correlation to the thickness of the manager underneath it. Can someone sort the table on that basis…and don’t be fooled by Tony Pulis’ hat!
So Antonio Pulis is genuinely keeping it under his hat? Cunning rascal.
If they are completely honest with themselves, does anybody, anywhere really, truthfully think that Arry Redknapp is a good football manager. 30 years as a football manager and 1 major honour does not equate to a good football manager, he’s like that bloke at work who is absolutely feckin useless at their job but the boss thinks the sun shines out of his blow hole, except in Arry’s case it’s the press and the unambitious amongst us….. :ninja:
He was the right appointment at the time and unless results / league position ‘goes south’ he should remain, despite our personal misgivings.
Do you work for the press chirpy or are you just unambitious?
Are those my only options? :-(
I’m glad you weren’t my careers advisor
Could you see yourself working in a mirror factory? :shifty:
that’s an odd reason to say he’s no good – how many trophies are there to be won?
and he’s usually been at lower end teams. He’s a fantastic man manager, just maybe not the man to carry us onwards, with the lure of Engerland (zzzzzzzzzzz) on the horizon
You my friend are clearly crazy as a box of frogs….everybody is rated on their past performance, can you imagine speaking to the surgeon who is just about to perform your heart transplant…How many times have you successfully performed this operation Doc?
I have been performing this operation for 30 years.
Yes, but how many times have you been successful? ….once…
so harry’s shit cos he hasn’t won trophies at teams like bournemouth and wet spam?
and the fact that those teams aren’t/weren’t set up to defeat Liverppol/Utd/Everton/Tottenham etc etc etc doesn’t register?
you’re a crazy frog box yourself
Hartley its you who is crazy. If you think we will be better by firing a man who has – whether you like it or not – been our most successful manager since the inception of the PL, then you are deluded. I dont know who you would expect us to get in, but I can assure you that you would almost certanly be disappointed. We dont have unlimited resources and wont attract the greedy big names. Why is it that MO’N seems to be consistently praised to the hilt but Harry is written off? At least Harry has won an FAC – what has MO’N won? Couple of fking Carling Cups at the time when so few team took it seriously, even our dismal mob under GG won it. At Villa he spent lavishly (they are paying for that now), but never looked likely to break the top 4. Harry has outperformed MO’N on a like for like basis. He worked wonders at Bournmouth and took WHam – with basically no resources at all – to 5th in the PL. I can assure you, that is a bigger achievement than Ancelotti taking the team with the biggest wage bill in the country to the top of the league (as he did with Milan and Chelsea). Others suggest Hughes – what has he won? Remind me again?
I didn’t say he is shit, I said that 1 major trophy in 30 years does not maketh a good manager. You are just reading the 1 in 30 and coming up with the conclusion, shit manager… My work here is done.. ;-)
Hartley, you really are talking **** there.
A better comparison would be entering formula 1 with a beaten up Ford Escort and still winning one race, that would be a really good result. You have to compete with what your employers can afford and in Harry’s case, most clubs he’s managed could afford to compete at the level required to win trophies.
In the last 10 years only the sky 4 and Portsmouth have won the league or FA Cup, and only 4 other clubs out side the sky 4 have won the league cup, including us. And in the previous 10 years not much difference in the trophy winners.
Therefore using your criteria, as Harry has not managed Arsenal, Man U, Chelsea or Liverpool, he along with every other manager who has not managed one of these clubs should not be in the business of football management.
Beardo, you feel that Portsmouth beating 2nd Division Cardiff by I believe 1 goal to nil in the cup final is like a ford escort winning a formula one race….fact is, if Arry Redknapp was a good football manager then perhaps the, as you say, sky 4 would have took him on…..but they didn’t did they…..and why, because he has won sweet feck all in 30 years……..
Who gives a shit what the score was? The history books will show that Pompey won the FA Cup.
They will also show that as a football manager Arry Redknapp won 1 major trophy in 30 years..
That’s one more than most managers so I’m sure he’ll sleep easy at night.
I’m sure he will Mr McAvity with the club you support paying him £3 million a year…. :sideways:
I notice you didn’t say the club ‘we’ support…….
The childish response indicates that I should have… ;-)
Hartley, now lets see, Man U wouldn’t employ him as they’ve had Fergie for 20 odd years who had done rather well, Arsenal as they’ve had Arsene for 15ish years, who again had done quite well (as much as i hate the fact). Chelsea have always wanted a big name manager and Harry did not have the kudos they require, that leaves Liverpool.
Harry has always stated that he and her indoors like living on the south coast so probably wouldn’t have gone to Liverpool even if they had offered him a contract.
So a possible one club out of the sky 4 may have taken him on but he probably wouldn’t have gone there.
I won’t argue that he not the most tactically astute but he’s not rubish either. He done a good job at clubs with limited resources. He came to Spurs and got us into the CL in his first full season and then all the way to the quarter finals. He has done better than any other manager of Spurs in recent history.
Do you have someone who look after you?
Do you have someone who Looks after you? Quick, the ice cream van is outside…. :shifty:
I have a brain that looks after me.
By the way, there is no point telling me excitedly that an ice cream van is outside – I am not actually sitting in the same place as you. Still, enjoy the ice cream. Try to avoid getting the flake stuck up your nose again
:lol: :lol: FFS
can i have hundreds & thousands on mine please :-p
As I said on this blog yesterday, HR is one of only three managers to have managed 500 PL games. That’s the equivalent of 13 full seasons. I think it is unprecedented for a manager to have had that amount of time in the top flight and won so little.
HR will frequently make self serving statements about us being amnesiac regarding “2 from 8”, but I wait for the day when a journalist asks him about this other stat, “1 from 30”.
Regarding the fact that he has spent much of his career in the lower divisions, and that would explain his lack of success, it needs to be pointed out many managers start in the lower divs, but as soon as their talent is spotted, they are snapped up by the PL. The fact that he spent so long in the lower divs, reflects the fact that nobody regarded him as being particularly talented.
Hartley, you talk even more shit than I do — and that’s going some.
I am simply saying that I do not rate Arry as a good football manager due to his 1 in 30 record which you have to admit is poor. I actually do like the way Spurs play under him when we are not using 3MP but that’s about it…I believe that just about every other english speaking manager in the PL at the time he took over could have achieved the same results if not better with the players he inherited. He is punching above his weight and although he gets some great results he also fucks up big time and stuggles with the easier decisions any fan worth his salt could make….I could go on and on about tactics, verbal bollocks, transfer policy, the fact that he spends just as much if not more time on other projects week in, week out which have absolutely nothing to do with Tottenham Hotspur FC….but I won’t, because it really does wind me up! Time will tell I guess, he’s had nearly 3 years at Spurs so we will win something soon….when I say soon I mean in the next 27 years…I CAN’T WAIT :whistle: