Well, dust has settled a bit now from the Redknapp sacking. I was thinking about exactly where we find ourselves. Have we started to mess it all up again?
As much as I loathed Redknapp's bullshit, the one thing that's kept on at me over the past few days is, hate him or not, the two fourth spot finishes. Whatever else you may think of him, that still remains. Sure you can say it's just down to good players, but is that really the case? He has to have had some hand in it.
I am now startng to worry about where we find ourselves. Levy says he wants a proper process for appointing a new manager. This, to me, is code for "nobody lined up". I fear that we, being the last of the big clubs to sack and hire, are left to see what bargain basement candidates there are. Is that really the "new direction" Levy (or, if rumours are to be believed, Joe Lewis) had in mind when they gave Harry the boot?
So, no manager - so what of new signings? No signings yet, while the likes of Chelsea, Woolwich and Man U al have several wrapped up. Where is the ambition? Why is Vertonghen dragging on? Where is the supposed big statement that Levy wants to make? Furthermore, if we have no manager ready to come in do we even know why our targets are, or who is leaving? For all the praise that is thrown Levy's way, the season has been over a month now and the clock is ticking.
So no new signings. We are 7 weeks away from the start of the season. That means new signings are unlikely to feature in pre-season. Now, someone might need to remind dear Daniel that we only have one bloody striker at the moment, namely Defoe. Plus Defoe, being a Euro player, will return to training late. So are we even going to have any strikers for pre-season?
Maybe I am worrying too much, but the more I think about it the more the Redknapp sacking comes across more as a knee-jerk one driven more by strong egos and personalities than footballing reasons (which, to me, is the reason Redknapp went now and not at the end of the season) - and in that regard have we just manufactured ourselves one hell of a clusterfuck?
One thing is for sure, come the start of the season Levy will be demanding CL football from our new manager, who will be told to do better than Harry. But are we really doing what is required to even make this a possibility?
As much as I loathed Redknapp's bullshit, the one thing that's kept on at me over the past few days is, hate him or not, the two fourth spot finishes. Whatever else you may think of him, that still remains. Sure you can say it's just down to good players, but is that really the case? He has to have had some hand in it.
I am now startng to worry about where we find ourselves. Levy says he wants a proper process for appointing a new manager. This, to me, is code for "nobody lined up". I fear that we, being the last of the big clubs to sack and hire, are left to see what bargain basement candidates there are. Is that really the "new direction" Levy (or, if rumours are to be believed, Joe Lewis) had in mind when they gave Harry the boot?
So, no manager - so what of new signings? No signings yet, while the likes of Chelsea, Woolwich and Man U al have several wrapped up. Where is the ambition? Why is Vertonghen dragging on? Where is the supposed big statement that Levy wants to make? Furthermore, if we have no manager ready to come in do we even know why our targets are, or who is leaving? For all the praise that is thrown Levy's way, the season has been over a month now and the clock is ticking.
So no new signings. We are 7 weeks away from the start of the season. That means new signings are unlikely to feature in pre-season. Now, someone might need to remind dear Daniel that we only have one bloody striker at the moment, namely Defoe. Plus Defoe, being a Euro player, will return to training late. So are we even going to have any strikers for pre-season?
Maybe I am worrying too much, but the more I think about it the more the Redknapp sacking comes across more as a knee-jerk one driven more by strong egos and personalities than footballing reasons (which, to me, is the reason Redknapp went now and not at the end of the season) - and in that regard have we just manufactured ourselves one hell of a clusterfuck?
One thing is for sure, come the start of the season Levy will be demanding CL football from our new manager, who will be told to do better than Harry. But are we really doing what is required to even make this a possibility?
