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Good morning.

The Mirror run with an interesting piece this morning. Maybe it’s hogwash, after all Goal.com decided to turn the ‘gone by the weekend’ ITK fever on message boards into ‘crunch talks on Friday’.

My guess is that it isn’t hogwash as such, rather the Arry camp having a pretty futile go at trying to boost the old cove’s stock. Their original plan to play the, ‘Chelsea are interested card’ became increasingly unbelievable the more obvious it became in the press that Abramovich only had eyes for Guardiola.

It comes as a Middle East consortium has put together a financial package to try and tempt Redknapp to a job in Qatar.

Redknapp was sounded out last year by a Middle East club, and the Mirror understands there is fresh interest because they feel they may now be able to lure him away.

The 65-year-old fears there is an element at White Hart Lane who may want a change of manager, despite last season’s impressive campaign.

The silence from Redschnapps since the close of the season has been chilling. talkSPORT have resorted to talking calls from members of the public. At the very least this shows Levy & Co. that this plonker’s mind is always on anything other than Tottenham. 

Io fei gibetto de le mei case.

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  • cookiebun says:

    Levy knows what he’s doing. He’s got a manager (of sorts) that is becomming less popular by every week that passes. Liverpool and Villa are going for young vibrant men, even Swansea are looking at an early 40’s man. Harry’s to fucking old to demand anything of anyone and his wheeler dealer ways were so obvious when the England job came up for grabs that he allowed his everyday job to collapse. How could anyone have any faith in a thickko like that. He whores himself to the media, he hasn’t got a clue on tactics, he signs players that are older than some Premiership Managers. FFS get the uneducated cretin out of Tottenham and get fucking serious about football matters Mr Levy.

    • robbie says:

      you want a young manager why don’t we go for Karl Robinson. plays great football but would be a he’ll of a risk!

    • cookie I take it you dont like Harry.

      I think most will agree but we are beyond that question now. Who do we get.There are many quick answers but when you take into consideration our situation,stadium,finances,stars we have and the need to bring more of a system that will work,who can be the man for the job?
      I think its not easy to find one.

      We talk about Harrys assistants but really do we know if they are capable?
      Bond,Sherwood and Ferdinand have never impressed me but its difficult to figure,like Harry, what they actually do.

  • Cheeky Bill says:

    During the normal closed season we are used to being in an ‘arms race’ against other teams looking to acquire the best players for the next season.

    In this closed season the arms race has escalated above ‘player level’ up to ‘manager level’. Teams around us are attempting to lay down a 3-5 year plan – there’s a vision. Something to move forward to.

    I don’t know what’s going on at Spurs. But if there is a plan then I can see it. We are still in mend and make do cloud and Harry appears to be part of that. Next season Liverpool will improve, Aston Villa will improve – just through good coaching. We will create the illusion that we have improved but without good coaching we won’t.

    • The Tottinghams says:

      That is a great point. I have never felt with Arry that we have a plan. Certainly not a long term one. Now is the time to act

  • cookiebun says:

    I can see this is going to be a fun blog board today. Scrotim Face Out.

    • SuperSpurs says:

      If you squint really hard, ‘Arry’s face DOES look like the ball sack of an eighty year old man … apparently :freu

      • Dick Scratcher says:

        I will have you know my good Sir that I am 83 years old, and every evening I have a lackey to rub the finest cinnamon oils into my scrotum. This is purely to avoid my scrotum looking like a football manager (not a wheeler dealer), this I can assure you is not done for perverted pleasures.

        • SuperSpurs says:

          Ahhhh the old cinnamon oils, I remember fondly when I was child, my grandfather would pass me the small sweet smelling apothacary bottle of …. :unsure:

  • Top Tottys says:

    try as I might and 2 weeks after Abramachoo finally wins his poisoned chalice, I still cant get the twitchy fuckbrain ginger cuzt out of my head…..fukkin scumbag needs to do the decent thing and resign!! 10 point lead over the Ar5ew1pes in Feb and by May we got assraped by the dirty Ar5ew1pes!!! Unforgivable!!! Unforgettable!!! Unfuckinbelievable!!! I so hate football right now!!!

  • Paddyspurs says:

    Harrys totally right why stay at a club were the chairman won’t back you in the transfer Market ! Thanks Harry for all the great memory’s (champs lge , beating arsenal and playing the football we love at THFC ! so all you fools who have called for him to go hope you can shut up next yr when the new guy puts us back to fighting to stay in prem ! And hit and hope footy !

    • bringontheclowns says:

      I can’t wait all these muppets who dont even buy tickets never go to a game and pretend tehyre spurs fans come on here and start wanting to stab another manager in the back. same as they did with MJ.the ballshit put on here is enough to feed by roses for 10 years.

      • Alspur says:

        I was a season ticket holder and went to every game during MJ’s time at Spurs…

        …and I’m telling you that me, and most of the people around me on the Shelf, thought he had lost the plot by the end…

        (and that’s not even mentioning his covert chats with Newcastle about flitting over to them…)

        Lovely bloke, very good manager, but we had hit a glass ceiling with him in charge, I’m afraid…

        • essexian76 says:

          Spot on, at last someone with a decent memory

        • I agree.I was never a fan of Jol. Nice guy but I thought that we had one tactic while he was manager.Paul Robinson to Berbatov (and thank God for Berbatov)

          Yes two 5th place finishes and that was good relatively but the football was very mediocre.
          No not back to that.

    • ZAC says:

      Yes, of course, a new manager is bound to play hit and hope football.

      Have you conveniently erased losing 5-2 to them, 5-1 to the chavs at Wembley and blowing a 10 point lead from your tiny little mind.

      • Devonshirespur says:

        Have you conveniently forgotten the superb football played along the way to building a 10 point lead. Have you stopped to consider the lead was 10 points because Arsenal were so awful while we grew in strength after a poor opening.

        What is stupid is that if our season was in reverse and we began badly but finished on a brilliant run, playing like we did from Sept to Jan, to get 4th, most would think we’re unlucky to miss CL…BUT because it was the other way around it’s a fucking disaster which Harry must pay for with his job.

        What I don’t like about HR, apart from the media BS, is his lack of a long term plan. In his mind he’s off once a better offer comes along, so why plan for the future, why invest in youth who might flourish when you may not be there to benefit from it. He lives season to season and sticks with the tried and tested because there is no point planning too far ahead or taking risks.

        However, he has got us 4th 5th and 4th. Unless someone seriously better comes along, we should “gamble” on him staying. You never know he might fail again and get us 4th place.

        • Chrispurs says:

          Your thesis: ‘if our season was in reverse and we began badly but finished on a brilliant run, playing like we did from Sept to Jan, to get 4th, most would think we’re unlucky to miss CL.’

          No, the collapse of our season, coincided with the England job, when Redknapp, went AWOL; that’s the point. His indifference to Spurs and contempt for the fans of our great club, were about as inconspicuous, as a toilet on the front lawn.

        • el says:

          .
          Actually Chrispurs, everyone seems to remember that our collapse tallied with the ‘engerland’ situation but so many seem to forget that our collapse also followed our post new year form, during which the team began to struggle to beat the opposition rather than its pre Christmas form of cutting an impressive swathe through them. I’m not convinced by the ‘engerland’ theory as we looked ripe for a bit of a collapse once we were up against Feb/March’s tough run. The completeness of our pratfall was embarrassing however and worse than anyone had a right to expect. I would still rather the risk of keeping the man who took us to 4th, 5th, 4th, for one last year than the risk that inevitably comes with a fresh face/restructure, whoever the manager.

        • Johns says:

          I never thought I would see the day when finishing 4th for us was a failure.There were a series of events not just the England thing that made our season a so called disaster.Harry did take his eye off the ball for a bit,but I guess heart attacks, tax trials & England debacles are gonna do that.Yet in spite of this he still managed to finish in a champions league position.Can’t think of too many that could do that! We were unlucky that the chav’s got lucky.Bring on next season!

        • One of the best games we played was against Newcastle. That wasnt at the beginning of the season,it was right after the court case and the capello leaving.
          It was after that we crashed.
          The players had made a stand that Harry stay.Its obvious.
          But Harry went aloof,MIA,AWOL and remember Modric must have been sweet talked by Harry to stay earlier on in the season and what would Harry have said to him? He would have told him he has a future. Thats coming from a man who would run in a minute.
          So if you were Modric or Bale what would you do?

        • Devonshirespur says:

          ronnie….what you say is all total conjecture and typical tabloid 1+1=3.

          How did harry go MIA, AWOL…you use easy lazy “journalism” tainted by your entrenched dislike of Harry.

    • mrdaintz says:

      Cant remember martin jol and juande ramos playing hit and hope footy as i see it harry is the one who did when he signed peter crouch, yes it’s improve this year but redknapp does not deserve all the credit because if levy and commoli didnt get the likes of bale luka and rafa then harry wouldn’t have lasted long and let’s not forget martin jol started the whole thing off and wasn’t a media whore and he respected our club which harry hasnt time to bin the dodgy ginger mug and get a coach who understands all aspects of the modern game not just go out there and play lads and enjoy it we need better tactic’s than that surely, there’s plenty of manager’s out there who are better than harry redknapp.

      • essexian76 says:

        If going behind the clubs back and getting interviewed for the Newcastle job is respect, then I’m a Gooner-it was that solitary act of treachery which caused us so much consternation,simply because if Jol hadn’t have been so two-faced, Kemsey wouldn’t have gone to Seville to tap up Ramos.
        The club (Levy), refused to be held to ransom by Jol the rest is history.

    • The Tottinghams says:

      Did you enjoy being beaten by Le Arse 5-2? Because I bloody didn’t!

      • essexian76 says:

        Nope, but then again, I hated having to wait 10 years before beating them in the league-your point?

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