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Oh my. Harry Redknapp (football’s white noise) has been telling the Evening Standard that Premier League clubs should stop giving jobs to foreigns. It’s almost like he lost the Tottenham job to a foreign. Frankly, we could just copy and paste the entire column and sit back with arms crossed, but we know you’re busy people, so we will bring you the highlights:
‘With all due respect, if you swapped an English lad at the bottom of the table with Manuel Pellegrini at City and gave him Yaya Toure, Sergio Aguero and David Silva, they aren’t going to finish halfway up the League.’
With all due respect, Harry, we suspect that City’s ambitions lie a little higher than ‘not finishing halfway up the league’.
‘Take the top four clubs. People talk about Chelsea maybe replacing Jose Mourinho, Arsene Wenger won’t go on too much longer at Woolwich, Pellegrini is always under pressure at City and Louis van Gaal says it will be his last job at Manchester United. It is almost impossible to see a British coach getting one of those jobs when they come up though.’
Has Harry heard of Ryan Giggs, the man introduced by Van Gaal recently as the “next manager of Manchester United”?
‘Why shouldn’t Woolwich give Steve Bould a go? Or Tony Adams? Why shouldn’t John Terry be the next Chelsea manager whenever Mourinho goes? Okay, he has never managed but John knows the game inside out.’
Shall we start with the idea of Tony Adams – coincidentally Redknapp’s assistant manager at Portsmouth – as Woolwich boss? He relegated Wycombe Wanderers and won only 12 of 53 games as the Chairboys boss and picked up only ten points from a possible 48 with Pompey before being sacked, but why shouldn’t he be considered management material for a club who are a Champions League stalwart? BECAUSE IT’S MENTAL, THAT’S WHY.
As for Terry ‘knowing the game inside out’? We’re pretty sure Bryan Robson, Alan Shearer, Paul Merson, Paul Gascoigne, John Barnes and – well, Tony Adams – also ‘knew the game inside out’.
‘There are more and more foreign owners in the League who are too afraid to take a chance on an English manager. They want sexy foreign names. They love the mystique of it.’
We’re pretty sure the foreign Randy Lerner wishes he had chosen somebody whose name sounds sexier than ‘Tim Sherwood’.
‘British coaches are barely getting a look-in even lower down the League now. Eddie Howe had to bring Bournemouth up into the top flight. Alex Neil had to do the same at Norwich. Tony Pulis has done well but he would have never managed in the Premier League if he hadn’t got promoted with a club. That was his only way in.’
Of the Premier League’s bottom seven clubs, three (Swansea, Newcastle and Villa) are managed by men who have never been promoted into the top flight. Carry on…
‘One of the top clubs have to be brave and give a lad a chance otherwise it will never change.’
At this point, the Standard’s ghost writer should probably have interjected with the words ‘David’ and ‘Moyes’.
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Oh my. Harry Redknapp (football’s white noise) has been telling the Evening Standard that Premier League clubs should stop giving jobs to foreigns. It’s almost like he lost the Tottenham job to a foreign. Frankly, we could just copy and paste the entire column and sit back with arms crossed, but we know you’re busy people, so we will bring you the highlights:
‘With all due respect, if you swapped an English lad at the bottom of the table with Manuel Pellegrini at City and gave him Yaya Toure, Sergio Aguero and David Silva, they aren’t going to finish halfway up the League.’
With all due respect, Harry, we suspect that City’s ambitions lie a little higher than ‘not finishing halfway up the league’.
‘Take the top four clubs. People talk about Chelsea maybe replacing Jose Mourinho, Arsene Wenger won’t go on too much longer at Woolwich, Pellegrini is always under pressure at City and Louis van Gaal says it will be his last job at Manchester United. It is almost impossible to see a British coach getting one of those jobs when they come up though.’
Has Harry heard of Ryan Giggs, the man introduced by Van Gaal recently as the “next manager of Manchester United”?
‘Why shouldn’t Woolwich give Steve Bould a go? Or Tony Adams? Why shouldn’t John Terry be the next Chelsea manager whenever Mourinho goes? Okay, he has never managed but John knows the game inside out.’
Shall we start with the idea of Tony Adams – coincidentally Redknapp’s assistant manager at Portsmouth – as Woolwich boss? He relegated Wycombe Wanderers and won only 12 of 53 games as the Chairboys boss and picked up only ten points from a possible 48 with Pompey before being sacked, but why shouldn’t he be considered management material for a club who are a Champions League stalwart? BECAUSE IT’S MENTAL, THAT’S WHY.
As for Terry ‘knowing the game inside out’? We’re pretty sure Bryan Robson, Alan Shearer, Paul Merson, Paul Gascoigne, John Barnes and – well, Tony Adams – also ‘knew the game inside out’.
‘There are more and more foreign owners in the League who are too afraid to take a chance on an English manager. They want sexy foreign names. They love the mystique of it.’
We’re pretty sure the foreign Randy Lerner wishes he had chosen somebody whose name sounds sexier than ‘Tim Sherwood’.
‘British coaches are barely getting a look-in even lower down the League now. Eddie Howe had to bring Bournemouth up into the top flight. Alex Neil had to do the same at Norwich. Tony Pulis has done well but he would have never managed in the Premier League if he hadn’t got promoted with a club. That was his only way in.’
Of the Premier League’s bottom seven clubs, three (Swansea, Newcastle and Villa) are managed by men who have never been promoted into the top flight. Carry on…
‘One of the top clubs have to be brave and give a lad a chance otherwise it will never change.’
At this point, the Standard’s ghost writer should probably have interjected with the words ‘David’ and ‘Moyes’.
Mediawatch: Rooney > Henry, Shearer, Messi - Football365
That is some drive. Sandbanks to Birmingham.
Good luck Arry
they sacked Rowett so they could put a sexy name that would appeal to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The HKSE not being aware that the someone who scored alot of goals for Chavski was clearly one of the worst managers available.
Part of me would like to see them going down the divisions like Coventry, but on the other hand they did beat the Goons very publicly in a final, and the fans have suffered enough by not being in the promotion race. Which is where they were when the Directors decided to take them to "the next level".
Birmingham are only 3 points above the relegation zone with 3 games still to play. They could go down, but he probably would not take the blame.
They're better than every team around them. Rowett showed that. Forest will go down.
I don't really know enough to comment. I wonder what Dave Whelan and Jack Walker would think of Wigan and Blackburn possibly heading down to League 1 after all the money they spent years ago.
I think there's more to it than that. I think he's capable of firing them up for a shot at promotion next season.
If Harry didn't win 2 of the 3, Birmingham would have been truly sunk.
Think he won more games in those 3 than Zola did in over 20, or something like that.