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We'll never know, but personally I feel Levy had finally had enough of Arry.
I don't have time for people who use this as an argument.
That's a big call, and in my opinion, fairly naive. I won't repeat all the pro AVB posts made, pointless. But the team Harry inherited was never going to be relegated, teams go through 8-10 game periods of bad form, outs happened to the start of that campaign.
Redknapp was not a failure as a manager, but he's tenure was clearly at an end, but I do respect you coming and making a new thread.
Just so you know, the forum will be largely full of pro sexual comments towards AVB, this is normal here, I am 1882 and this is the fighting cock
I think its clear you have got your Harry hat on.
I and many others here certainly appreciate what Harry done as manager of our club, I take on board what he achieved and how we grew under his management, however, he has moved on and so have we. You dont know exactly why he was sacked, neither do we.
In my opinion, you cant do any better than beating your record points haul, AVB cant control what other teams results are throughout the season. If you want to have a debate on the subject, it would be good if you could show you understand where someone else is coming from rather than just constantly bang Harry's drum for him.
I and many others here certainly appreciate what Harry done as manager of our club, I take on board what he achieved and how we grew under his management, however, he has moved on and so have we. You dont know exactly why he was sacked, neither do we.
In my opinion, you cant do any better than beating your record points haul, AVB cant control what other teams results are throughout the season. If you want to have a debate on the subject, it would be good if you could show you understand where someone else is coming from rather than just constantly bang Harry's drum for him.
Why? It's a perfectly good argument... Chelsea were having a hell of a time under AVB. He got the sack and their results and performances improved instantly and they won the FA Cup and Champions League.
Not really. He was 5th by 3 odd points when he got the sack iirc . Where did they finish in the league?
And in the CL he had an away goal with 2 goals to make up at home, he was actually doing alright. I'll probably stop replying now, but I can't resist trolls, it's a weakness of mine
Remind me what happened to the manager that won the champions league and fa cup? Chelsea is a mad house, I’m sure not how it can be used as an argument when they have sacked all of their most successful managers.
So you don't Chelsea suddenly did better when AVB left?
That must put you in an ever smaller minority on that point than I am in this thread!
Just because Chelsea unfairly sacked Di Matteo just reinforces my point that AVB was not a success at Stamford Bridge.
I won't comment on the decision to sack Redknapp because the fact is that we have no idea what happened behind the scenes. Levy could've had a very good reason to sack him, he could've had no reason. The fact is, we will never know. All I know is that I appreciate everything he has done for the club. That includes getting us top 5 for three seasons in a row.
However, I don't understand why you think Harry is better than AVB. AVB lost 3 of the best players in his squad with out proper replacements before he even managed a game. He had to go a whole season with two out of form strikers (and if you think its AVB's fault that he didn't have a third striker then you are clueless, that is Levy's doing). He had one of our best players in Sandro miss half the season with a torn ACL, and had one of our other best players playing most of the season injured in Dembele. Despite this, he managed to get a record point total in his first season with a squad he didn't build. Harry finished 8th in his first season (although part of that was due to Ramos, I still don't think he would've qualified for the champions league regardless). He obviously has the respect of the squad. Remember the West Ham game? You don't see players run over to their manager and celebrate like that with anybody.
I believe that after this next season, nobody will be questioning the decision to hire AVB like you are now. Now that he has more players that fit in his squad like Paulinho, Soldado, and Chadli, I think he will show what he can truly bring to the table. He showed at Porto what he has got, and I think he will show that again with us. We have so much more potential with him and I believe that Levy made the perfect decision to get rid of Redknapp for him.
They really didn't actually do that much better, if they hadn't won the CL it would have been seen as a poor season either way. He wasn't great, but RDM wasn't that much better, Chavs hail him as a reborn god.
Whether it was right to sack Arry is pretty well backed up by stats, and ignoring stats it's completely opinion based
RDM who brought the Champions League to London for the first and only time didn't do much better than AVB...
Hhhhhmmmmm...