I really struggle to understand what the big deal is about Reknapp, modest success at Bournemouth at West Ham he was blessed with some very good young players coming through from youth system and signed a number of overpriced foreign players that cost West Ham millions and they won nothing. When he was at Portsmouth again amusingly broke them twice by bringing in players on incredibly high wages and effectively bankrupted them. He also did the same at Saints paying astronomical wages to the loan players and the signings he brought in that we could not cope with in the Championship and this contributed to us going into a downward financial spiral that nearly saw us finished!
At Spurs he has been blessed with a very talented squad and some very good young players like Bale but they are probably are at the very pinnacle of what they can achieve and more than likely will win nothing this year.
I feel the man had made a reputation out of wheeling and dealing on the transfer market and playing the media and various chairman for fools, he clearly has very little coaching skills and relies heavily on Bond and Jordan and also fundamentally his CV is poor 1 FA cup win is god knows how many year of management.
Redknapp is just like a poor man’s Venables the media love him because he provide them good copy always happy to talk to them and give them something to write in their columns and sadly to the press this is what matters, but for me does that justify his being skilled and qualified to be the England manager, it is a myth and a press agenda the public have been sold for a long time.
Martin O’Neil would be a far better choice at least he has a CV of achievement and clearly he does not need to wheel and deal to make a difference, will be a sad day for me if he gets the job.
