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levy otm

Rafa in.

only Rafa can take on this job

tho Trapattoni may be out of work in a couple of weeks

lol wtf is levy at?

interesting to see whether he goes for jol or rafa though.

i can see dick advocaat getting the job for lols

deems seems to have taken the chelsea situation relatively well all told

rafa will be harder, sure, but he'll get there

i'd like to hear someone make a case for dick advocaat, even if they didn't actually feel he should get the job.

advocaat is a damn good manager and an upgrade on redknapp

not as difficult as van gaal, not as venal as hiddink

is everyone agreed this is a bad decision?

.....?

i don't see any reason to think 'arry would've taken them further, could be on the brink of losing 2 or 3 big players, may've got greedy over his contract demands

id imagine levy will get someone better than redknapp

he hired paul stretford as his agent i think
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seems incredibly risky when they already finished fourth with harry.

guardian saying moyes

they finished last season with five points more than jol's team did in 2006

they had keane, jenas, mido rather than bale, modric, adebayor

I think if you're going to use dressing room uncertainty over your future to try and bounce Levy into a new contract you don't:

a) blow a 10pt lead over Arsenal and a Champions League spot through your own idiotic tactics
b) do it after, erm, months of dressing room uncertainty over your future that you've said is absolutely not affecting the players
c) do it the week after Levy's mum has just died

No way was Harry going to take Spurs any further. A better manager would have had a proper shot at the title with that squad. Levy OTM.

tho Trapattoni may be out of work in a couple of weeks

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signed up til 2014 :(

a,b,c OTM there
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3 mil severance package, which after tax comes to 3 mil

hmmm, already saw that one somewhere else

signed up til 2014 :(

jeez, commiserations

A better manager would have had a proper shot at the title with that squad.

expectations through the roof

This could quite easily end up with us in 12th next season but I'm still happy to see Harry gone.

levy is a tough cunt and itn't exactly going to be frightened of the press corps' finest having him in their sights

martin samuel, oliver holt, brian woolnough, neil custis will be waddling over to enic demanding recompense

Would Spurs take a punt on AVB? Martinez? ... Van Gaal? Glad LFC got Rodgers sorted before this tbh.

has 'arry been interviewed driving slowly past ssn offices yet?

martinez in.

waiting for latest update on the spurs situation from dave whelan

lol

Just need Swansea to appoint Laudrup and that leaves him with no options in the Prem. So presumably the media awaits?

UAE

Charles Green might give him a warchest for Rangers

neutral on this, think he' have stayed would he have taken the contract dispute a little more seriously.

Good ol' BBC:

Redknapp left for Pompey's bitter South Coast rivals Southampton in 2004 but returned to Fratton Park in December 2005.

And in the interim, nothing happened.

please let it be moyes.

although dmac's reaction if rafa gets it would be just as amazing.

honest to christ Rafa In might be the best long-running fun generator in ILF history

neutral on this

same

expecting a p big nosedive this season whoever's in the seat but someone who implemented a halfway sensible squad rotation policy and kicked players' arses into playing in positions that actualy worked that would be something

8th, 4th, 5th, 4th was kind of unimaginable from the position he inherited (4pts adrift at the bottom of the table) - all about managing expectations, victim of his own success etc but seriously the guy has been mostly brilliant for Spurs. He might not be able to take them any further but I'm not sure anyone can take Spurs higher than 4/5/4 given their wage structure and the wealth of the opposition. Sure he should have finished 3rd this season but falling one league place is hardly a complete failure when you look at e.g. the Blackburn and Villa squads. Chelsea winning the CL made it a whole lot worse I suppose but that's not Harry's fault - that useless cunt Guardiola cost Harry his job.

Matt DC otm about Harry's ridic bargaining position though - using the one thing you've been denying all season as your key selling point isn't going to fly.

Redknapp didn't inherit THAT hopeless a cause, he inherited a talented if unbalanced squad that was underperforming badly. Most competent managers who spoke the same language as most the players could have taken that squad into midtable I reckon.

I don't think anyone expected us to push on and get fourth but Martin Jol had still managed to get 5th twice in a row not long before.

Yes last season was still fourth which would have been enough/more than enough in previous seasons, and yes if Messi had converted his penalty then Spurs would be in the CL. But saying "that's not Harry's fault" glosses over the mistakes he made:

- Not rotating enough in the first six months meaning key players were knackered in the spring
- Allowing key players to play out of position where they were less effective
- Letting a load of useful squad players go in January and then complaining about having a small squad
- Allowing himself to become over-reliant on defenders in their mid-30s with horrible injury records and no pace (see above)
- Leaving us in a position where we didn't have the personnel to play the system we did when certain players were injured (Lennon in particular) and not being flexible enough to change that
- Offloading back-up fullbacks so the ones we had played every game and got knackered
- Getting his tactics wrong a bunch of times, chiefly taking off defensive midfielders when teams were over-running us in central midfield

And that's without even mentioning England.

I will never forget that 18 months of amazing football around 2009-2011 though and for that thanks Harry.

agree with all of that from matt/ onimo, and it is v much worth stressing that the gap btwn third and fourth this year was cl qualification. in that he was unfortunate, in one way, but given the way the season played out there really wasnt anywhere else to look when levy asked the hard questions.

if he hadnt tried to bullshit the answers via the press he'd maybe still have the job.

hell of a fall from grace from jan

I also think Harry got drunk on the astonishing football that team were playing up until about December last year and frankly so did I and so did a lot of Spurs fans but his job is to contingency plan and he didn't do that, in fact he did the opposite and weakened the squad.

Fwiw I reckon the chances of Moyes turning down the job are pretty high given how supportive Kenwright has been to him and a lengthy search for a manager is the worst possible outcome given the unsettled nature of a lot of the squad. But OTOH is Moyes really does see himself at Old Trafford in the future he'll need a stepping stone at some point, so I dunno.

Man U aren't choosy really - got the last guy from Aberdeen.

moyes is going to arsenal after next season anyway

"We finished fourth and were unlucky at the end, but I think the same outcome would have happened," Redknapp said on BBC Radio Five Live.

"It's always disappointing but that's football," added Redknapp. "The people who run the football club have to make decisions that they think are right and that's their decision. You know I abide by it. I don't spend my life holding grudges, thinking about what could have been. That's life, we all move on.

"The only disappointment is that I think it's a team that could have gone on and won the Premier League in a year or two and I just wish I had been able to see that through and be a part of that."

He added: "What's happened is that I've met with my chairman and the club has decided that it wants to go in a different direction with the manager. That's their decision.

"I've had four fantastic years at Tottenham - I've absolutely loved every minute of it. It just couldn't have gone better for me: the football we played, and finishing fourth a couple of years running, fifth the other was year was great. So I was lucky.

"The fans have just been amazing for me, the support I got at the football club when things were difficult this year, I will never forget that, the way they treated me, they were special, so I've got some great memories."

lol bbc have interviewed him out his car window. 'fit as a fiddle' and 'nowhere near the end of his career'.

Would love to see him swap with Moyes to see how they compared with each other's resources but I can't see Harry going up norf.

Daniel Levy entered the meeting on Wednesday that ultimately ended Harry Redknapp's reign as Tottenham Hotspur manager with no intention of sacking the 65 year-old.

telegraph report starts with this big statement but doesnt get round to fleshing it out

Odds on Moyes out to 4/1, odds on AVB in to 5/4. Not that the bookies necessarily know much more but it's quite a shift in the last few hours.

it's almost as if the bookies odds were basing the odds on fleecing twitter rumour mongs rather than insights into the interior lives of daniel levy and joe lewis

-1 odds

it makes perfect sense that betting wld go with how people are saying 'x is totally going to y dude' tho, its abt chasing conviction and they'd prefer everyone to bet on avb and actually have it be david ginola who only 1 crazy stalker had bet 50p on unknowing

They generally get it right eventually e.g. Brendan Rodgers' odds coming way in the last 24 hours before the story broke. But until then it's just about the whim of a board, or in this case one guy - not the kind of information you can crowdsource, which is what the bookies are really useful for.

The idea of playing an AVB-style high defensive line with our current back four puts the shits up me.

i know, good innit. fingers x'd!

tbf to the bookies this one pretty much is a toss-up far as i can see. moyes, avb, maybe van gaal, maybe deschamps? none is a slam dunk for the mystical "taking it to the next level" oasis

would think levy is unlikely to go for a low/favre/de boer type no matter what their cv after getting fingers burnt with santini/ramos

favre does sound dope tho

was favre actually linked? that would be interesting i think

gazzetta dello sport saying it's AVB

wd take that.

Would help with player retention I think but we'd need to buy a new defence pretty quickly.

can imagine him trying for rolando from porto, think they would be happy to get rid for a reasonable fee and he's a fast, epl ready covering cb you could play behind kaboul or dawson

we need to buy a new defence p quickly anyway tbh. still missing the fit ledley figure, though kaboul and dawson each good enough as partners to that guy

Vertonghen seems to still be on-course as well despite the many factors that should have put him off by now. Plus we'll have Caulker next season as well.