We need to know for certain, at the latest by July 1st, exactly who our manager is going to be, and give them the ammunition to get players in before August 31st for a change.
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We need to know for certain, at the latest by July 1st, exactly who our manager is going to be, and give them the ammunition to get players in before August 31st for a change.
This just highlights the importance of getting business done early though to be honest.Smoked Salmon said:It isn't confusing at all when you consider that when those deals were first touter we were almost dead certs for a 3rd place finish with a ten point gap.Abbey Yid said:Pretty sure there's been rumours that the Hazard deal "is almost done" and Vertonghen was meant to have had a "deal agreed" - both seem dead in the water now which is a bit confusing.
Now CL qualification is in the balance. I am not surprised at all to see targets such as these now waiting to see what happens.
Dru said:When I say I would love to know what Levy is thinking I meant with regard to the need to bring in a lot of new players over the next two seasons and does he either back Redknapp knowing he might not want to manage past the end of next season or the one after, or does he get a hungry new manager in and back him to build something?
Cudicini
Gomes
Gallas
Hellboy
Ledley
Nelsen
Saha
Corluka
Bentley
Jenas
Ade
Gio
Bassong
Niko?
Defoe?
All COULD leave, some certainly will.
Then there is Modric and Bale.
Big decisions ahead...
jimmyriggle said:taking my spurs hat off for the moment, what on earth are the FA thinking?! There's an English guy (Redknapp) managing a team with limited resources and playing good football near the top of the league. He also defeated Inter and AC Milan in the champions league last year.
To not have at least interviewed him is bordering on gorss neglegence in my opinion. Sure Woy has a few more strings to his bow in terms of technical experience and could be better for developing the yoot system, but both Capello and Sven were supposed to be these tactical geniuses and look how far that got us.
Woy has already shown that he struggles to motivate the big time charlie players in this country whilst at Liverpool. Unless he literally sacks off Terry, Lampard, Gerrard, Cole, Ferdinand etc. and starts anew, nothing will be any different.
At least with Harry in charge we might have been a bit entertaining.
I'm bored enough with England as it is and have never looked forward to an international tournament less. This just makes it worse.
Thank god I'm in Florida for most of it!
Dru said:Redknapp failed his interview with our recent run of pathetic results.
Plus they know he'd only pick Rio, Lumpard, Terry and co again so it would be back to square one!
Yup.Blanchflower said:jimmyriggle said:taking my spurs hat off for the moment, what on earth are the FA thinking?! There's an English guy (Redknapp) managing a team with limited resources and playing good football near the top of the league. He also defeated Inter and AC Milan in the champions league last year.
To not have at least interviewed him is bordering on gorss neglegence in my opinion. Sure Woy has a few more strings to his bow in terms of technical experience and could be better for developing the yoot system, but both Capello and Sven were supposed to be these tactical geniuses and look how far that got us.
Woy has already shown that he struggles to motivate the big time charlie players in this country whilst at Liverpool. Unless he literally sacks off Terry, Lampard, Gerrard, Cole, Ferdinand etc. and starts anew, nothing will be any different.
At least with Harry in charge we might have been a bit entertaining.
I'm bored enough with England as it is and have never looked forward to an international tournament less. This just makes it worse.
Thank god I'm in Florida for most of it!
England have zero chance of winning the Euro's no matter who is in charge, they will get to the quarters and no further like they do every time.
So why pay £10m comp and £5m a year when you can pay £0 comp and £3m a year??
CJM said:Im not blaming this on our downfall, but it has no doubt had an effect, and it would have helped if they came out and just said he wasn't in the running,
Thelonious said:would've helped if Arry wasn't a media whore as well
Agreed, Redknapp's handled this quite poorly as well, but for the FA to just stand by and watch knowing that Redknapp wasn't going to get the job really frustrates me.
I enjoyed it in a masochistic wayphilyjc said:Agreed, Redknapp's handled this quite poorly as well, but for the FA to just stand by and watch knowing that Redknapp wasn't going to get the job really frustrates me.
The FA probably enjoyed it though the sadistic bastards.
Thelonious said:I enjoyed it in a masochistic wayphilyjc said:Agreed, Redknapp's handled this quite poorly as well, but for the FA to just stand by and watch knowing that Redknapp wasn't going to get the job really frustrates me.
The FA probably enjoyed it though the sadistic bastards.
Roy is also less likely to embarrass the FA in the media, tbf.Smoked Salmon said:Having said that, I do think that Woy getting looked at as inferior to Harry is somewhat unfair. His career win percentage is better than Redknappp's and everyone talks about his "failure" at Liverpool, but his win percentage at Liverpoool was better than his win percentage at West Brom, and was only 7% less than Harry's at Spurs. Plus he has considerable experience managing international sides, has also managed top clubs such as Inter and has won several European Leagues (albeit not the top ones).
When you put Harry's "success" at Tottenham aside, Roy does have the better CV for the job.