Good morning.
What’s been amusing in all this that the minority that still support Arry are as outraged as he is that that anyone would have the audacity to wish him gone.
And so the great pretender has come out swinging. What a stark contrast to the carefree international playboy of the western world schtick we had to suffer when he was waltzing on our screens; telling people he’d bring in Scholesy, give Walcott a chance.
“This is an outrage; an absolute liberty for people to be putting around this kind of rumour on the internet.
It is not true, there is not a chance I will resign. Why should I? I have a year left on my contract.”
Interesting wording. Devil’s in the detail.
‘On the Internet’ he says, clearly gutted that despite all his extensive whoring and schmoozing he did with the press Arry the dinosaur overlooked the medium most preferred by the vast majority of the human race.
Interesting that The Sun online has chosen to completely bury the story – you have to click on the club crest to unearth it.
‘There is not a chance I will resign,’ he says. Well I never said you had. I had everything crossed you’d gone. I actually used the word ‘vomited’. How you left didn’t interest me. That said, a regular reader does have what I am given to understand is a perfectly serviceable gents bicycle for sale.
At around the £15 mark, it seems good value.
Arry has supposedly armed himself up with Paul Stretford the football agent that caused havoc in the corridors at Old Trafford negotiating for Wayne Rooney for the meeting. Remember the tactic there? Wazza off to City?
22 November 2011 “If we keep up this form we’ll win the league”
8th February 2012 Capello steps down as England manager.
23rd March 2012 “Absolute nonsense. That’s the biggest load of nonsense I’ve ever heard in my life. They don’t care whether I’m manager next year.
They wouldn’t lose any sleep over that.’ ‘Footballers play the game, they come in every day and train. Someone else walks in here tomorrow-the king is dead, long live the king.
They don’t worry. They don’t think ‘Harry is going to England’ or ‘he is going to go somewhere else”.
5th June 2012 “It’s not a case of me looking for security.
What it’s about is players knowing you’ve got a year left on your contract, and knowing that it doesn’t work, basically. I think it’s a situation of ‘well he might not be here next year.’
5th June 2012 “I think it’s overrated what people say about Champions League.”
When all the clucking is done the bottom line is that Arry’s delusional episode when he believed he was going to be the next England manager cost THFC ballpark £30M. Anyone who wants to debate that in a coherent manner, here I am.
So the attempts thus far to bully the Board with threats of offers elsewhere and possible player unrest by our tight lipped supremo won’t be given houseroom. Only a man as plain stupid as Arry would try and hold someone up with an empty gun.
You have been promoting his departure away from WHL for more than a year now. In fact this blog has been after HR’s head for almost two seasons and precisely since you have started referring to him as Redschnapps. So any talk here about HR’s shortfalls and lack of prudence end of last season is irrelevant to the debate in this blog though it is of immense importance to the argument at THFC Board.
just how many of the 24 points on offer against the bottom four teams did he pick in the 2010-2011 season? while telling us we had nevr had it so good. dodge relegation, get a team relegated, bankrupt a club to win the fa cup and get run out of the club that was his first love for reasons i suspect we will never know. damn, i dont get why barca and juventus and real madrid are no knocking at his door
Sure, pick on one stat that goes against harry.
Under harry our away record has improved dramatically, our defensive record has improved and our scoring record is much improved. We beat Chelsea and Arsenal on a regular basis, won at the Emirates and LFc for the first time in years & years.
We won our Champions league “Group of death”. We hold the record for the most goals scored in the group stages. We beat AC Milan in Milan
70 points was our record high and 69 this season the next best.
We play attacking attractive football.
There are so many positives about harry’s time at Spurs you should try and focus on some of them and some of the improvements made, to help you get some perspective!
Devon
I want to agree with you (and kind of do with what you say above) but then isnt this just accepting that we are better than we were before and not caring that we arent actually as good as we CAN be??
Redknapp always quotes something along the lines of “what do spurs fans expect, they have had nothing before the last 2 years”,
Hes right per se ,except that we genuinely had a chance to finish 3rd this year and we blew it. Harry isnt dealing with an average team with average players. We havent had it this good for decades. He should have been able to manage this team into 3rd……. Do you not think???
hes happy with the 8 games 2 points stat, but we were 10 points clear. This is where I feel extremely aggrieved.
The QPR away game still makes me feel sick.
I agree Deano.
Harry has his flaws and has made mistakes. We can do better than we did this season. I simply do not believe it is all down to HR taking his eye off the ball.
I think we simply do not have a strong enough squad to maintain standards throughout a whole season, especially with the likes of Dawson and Huddlestone out for the season. We cannot effectively rotate Modric, Bale, Adebayor when the back up is Kranjcar Pienaar and GDS/Pav. We did not have a squad that allowed us to rotate or vary tactics. Like the season before this came home to roost in Feb/March and all that was compounded by the England Capello stuff.
harry is culpable but he has not been backed and I don’t think we can kick on without a better squad.
If we signed Ventonghen, we’d have a quality CB, alongside Kaboul with King/Dawson/Gallas/Caulker as cover. Also cover at LB..an improvement on last season and consistency where it is most important.
If we signed Hoilett, we’d have someone who could cover the loss/resting of Lennon/Bale. Add someone else like Krasic as further options & cover (both cheapish).
If Ade returned and we added Remy we’d have options up front and someone who can play wide in a 433/4231 and we’d have tactical options and cover.
With Huddlestone back we have creative options in CM so Modric can also be rested, and a creative defensive option…in many games Parker has been superfluous because the opposition have parked the bus and we have not needed a hard tackling DM & more creativity.
With these options Harry would be able to rotate, would have more options than just taking off VDV and adding Defoe.
I think he can still achieve great things with Spurs if he is backed. he’s done great so far with a great core team & deserves the chance to prove it. A season without distractions (including no CL distractions) and a deeper squad and we really could push on.
Still waiting for your proposal as a replacement, HH.
Is a man allowed to make a coffee?
I want someone with a CV, not a child with a ‘feel good factor’ like Martinez.
Capello would be good. I’d even take Benitez. Anyone who’s achieved more than an FA Cup win. Once.
Arry’s never left a club on an upswing. HE’s always just managed to climb out of the wreckage.
Thats odd I thought he was manager at those clubs not the finance man or the owner or the bloke running the place. I must be wrong as he is clearly at fault for everything.
He gets about a bit does Harry not bad for a man who cant read and write.
I think your analysis of Arry differs from mine. Strange you throw in the old read & write business. Who cares? I only ever wanted him to be focused on Spurs. He couldn’t do that.
How about Ramos, he has won stuff!
Can anyone actually offer an alternative Manager to Harry? A better candidate. All the Harry out brigade, were you Harry’s fan when we were in the Quarter Finals of the CL Or did you want him out then as well. Name me someone out there who can get our Tottenham, the same one thats continuely failed for the best part of 25 years and I’ll support the harry out club. I’ve been a fan since 1980 and in the last few years theres actually been real hope we are capable of acheiving something genuine and real.
Name some candidates that i can support an d believe in.
See above :daumen:
Keep saying it, Moyes.
Benitez, wtf? One thing I definitely don’t want is another fcuking bellend in charge. I would like someone who seems to reps the club with dignity and intelligence. Benitez scores very high on the bellend meter, and left Liverpool in a state of decline after several million pounds were wasted on mediocre players.
Capello is too old, if we appoint someone it should be with an eye on a long term project – even if that may seem fanciful in the era of hire em fire em we should at least get someone who at least stands a good chance of being upright in 10 years.
But do you actually believe he still believes in us or that we’re just the only show in town after the England bus left? Are you optimistic or desperate?
I want us to build for the future… Not act like frightened kids that hug him round the knees every time he tips his hat at another job, scared that ‘Daddy might actually mean it this time when he says he’s going to leave’.
It’s time the Spurs manager acted with dignity, composure, and professionalism. If HR is capable of doing that I say back him to the hilt… If, being the operative word.
bilic
but we could look elsewhere
burkinshaw was an assistant coach at a weak newcastle team when we took him and but for the jerk scholar might well have built the team of the 80’s, how we were being touted in 79-80
I’m sick of people saying “if you want Harry out you’re not a Tottenham fan”. Well I love Tottenham and I want Harry out, its got nothing to do with performances/results on the pitch. It is his constant lack of respect for the club, whether that be owners, fans or even players at times. We’ve all heard and seen the drivel that he spouts day in day out. I simply want a manager who is proud to be our manager. I’m sure in any industry if you we’re caught slagging of your boss, clients etc on a regular basis you too would be out of a job.
spot on
Yes, that’s the crux of it. I could actually tolerate worse results if the man in charge showed some humility and accepted culpability for any failings. Redknapp will never do either.
I concur, it’s beyond matters on the pitch; yes I’m dissapointes with how we finished the season, but I can stomach it. What I can’t stomach is a manager who clearly sees himself separate from the club, and says thing along the lines of (forgive paraphrasing) ‘remember this is Tottenham, this club shouldn’t even be in fourth’ and other defeatist remarks. Compare that to motes at the end of this season, where he stated that anything less than winning the league should be deemed as not good enough, and that there is no point taking part if your aim is to finish fourth not first.
I thank Harry for his service and I think he has done a lot to push us inthe right direction, but he is not Tottenham, he doesn’t represent us, he represents Harry and Harry alone.
Spurs haven’t produced a manager since Bill Nich. In the modern game managers affiliations and loyalties are rarely more than the size of their salary.
Get this man his bowler hat and cane. You my son are spot on and represent my sentiments to a tee. Thanks for putting into words even Harry would understand.
:daumen:
Anyone got a spare to straw to clutch?,anyway I thought the meeting was today, not last week or yesterday. If there’s any credence in the story, which is doubtful-then we’ll know soon enough, but I would surmise that Daniel Levy has had a bit more on his mind than Harry of late!
For me it’s not the getting rid of thats the problem , it’s the who comes in. Rafa B is not an option, did anyone see what he done to Liverpool or has that completely passed them by. The mans a terrible manager which is why he only lasted weeks at his old job. Keeping what we’ve got is the option for me. Saying that he has to stop gobbing off at every opportunity he gets, and start appreciating what he’s got.
If anyone thinks Moyes, Benitez and Capello are answers they’re foolish. It’s just hit and hope.