Harry Redknapp to be named manager within 3 weeks

[Big Bad Bob]

Not saying I want Redknapp here, but the point you're trying to make here is a load of crap. A lot of the cost was offset by player sales which you fail to mention. Redknapp was working under a chairman every bit as ruthless and savvy as Cortese in Daniel Levy. The fact is, Redknapp took a failing team, who were in a poor position at the time and going nowhere, and turned them around.

 

What the **** has the cost being offset by player sales got to do with him spending big on getting players in?

 

If he didn't have the money he wouldn't have got the quality of player in that he did and he would have failed...so who did he sell and for what? Was Berbatov one of them?

[tobes8]

would rather have someone like phil brown or even martin allen than that saggy faced **** redknapp....probably shows how much I detest him!! Cortese can do one aswell if he ever appointment him. Actually Cortese could do one now too!

[Thedelldays]

What the **** has the cost being offset by player sales got to do with him spending big on getting players in?

 

If he didn't have the money he wouldn't have got the quality of player in that he did and he would have failed...so who did he sell and for what? Was Berbatov one of them?

we have spent more ever in more ever in our history..i look forward to a nice safe finish then

[tobes8]

Yep. Took Spurs into the champions league for the first time ever. Won Pompey their first major honour since the war. Took West Ham to their second highest league position ever. Took Bournemouth into the 2nd flight for the first time ever.

 

A truely sh*t manager with a horrendous record of turning decents sides into mediocre ones.

 

yes great, how much did he have to spend to do that and his reckless spending (chairman to blame also) bankrupted the skates!

[Mr X]

that is my point..you have no idea if all this 433 malarky is not driven by nigel himself..?

 

That is true! And will we ever? Adkins interviews are just corporate rehashings like he's primed and on autopilot he reveals nothing and that's the way Cortese likes it.

[Big Bad Bob]

we have spent more ever in more ever in our history..i look forward to a nice safe finish then

 

He spent £105m on 10 players, we have spent £20m on 2!!

 

He rebuilt his team, we haven't, slight difference.

 

If we had spent £105m on rebuilding the team and were languishing were we are currently then I would be more concerned. But as it is we haven't spent the money on the players that count (defenders).

[Thedelldays]

He spent £105m on 10 players, we have spent £20m on 2!!

 

He rebuilt his team, we haven't, slight difference.

 

If we had spent £105m on rebuilding the team and were languishing were we are currently then I would be more concerned. But as it is we haven't spent the money on the players that count (defenders).

with completely different expectations...i expect to stay up nicely after being 7th biggest spenders in europe

[Saint_Ash]

with completely different expectations...i expect to stay up nicely after being 7th biggest spenders in europe

 

The season doesn't finish after eight games though, we may yet string some wins together when our better players are back and Adkins understands what he's doing in this league a bit better.

[Big Bad Bob]

with completely different expectations...i expect to stay up nicely after being 7th biggest spenders in europe

 

That's the trouble, you're only seeing it as "7th biggest spenders" not what we've spent (or not) on...

 

Add to that that the person who we spent 70%+ of the that money on has been injured.....

[OldNick]

That's the trouble, you're only seeing it as "7th biggest spenders" not what we've spent (or not) on...

 

Add to that that the person who we spent 70%+ of the that money on has been injured.....

i wonder what dork gave him the terrible dead leg in the first place.

[Window Cleaner]

That's the trouble, you're only seeing it as "7th biggest spenders" not what we've spent (or not) on...

 

Add to that that the person who we spent 70%+ of the that money on has been injured.....

 

0/10 for the maths then, unless JRod has been injured as well, 70% = injured+ not good enough to impose himself.

[Big Bad Bob]

0/10 for the maths then, unless JRod has been injured as well, 70% = injured+ not good enough to impose himself.

 

70% of the 20M I was saying we had spent on 2 players, depending on who you listen to and when.

 

J-Rod £4m-£8m

Gaston £12m-£15m+

[John B]

with completely different expectations...i expect to stay up nicely after being 7th biggest spenders in europe

 

that figure is meaningless really we had a squad of League 1 and championship players so we had to spend big to compete with teams which already had PL squads and were making them better.

 

That said the £30 could have been spent better

[paris]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2222904/Harry-Redknapp-wants-Blackburn-job--EXCLUSIVE.html

[Saint86]

F*ck off. Why is this b*llocks even on our forum?

 

Quality reply! This is 100% response this should be getting! People shouldn't even consider this rumour is true!

[Window Cleaner]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2222904/Harry-Redknapp-wants-Blackburn-job--EXCLUSIVE.html

 

 

well he would have to say he's interested wouldn't he, otherwise they'll cut off his jobseeker's allowance :rolleyes:

 

I can see another bookies benefit coming up.

[Saint86]

It was bad enough the last time he took us down.... Portsmouth welcoming him back after sending the scummers down etc etc. Can you frigging imagine if it happened again. Even if he wasn't a cheating, tax dodging saggy pair of beef curtains, which he is, he would not be worth that risk. Utter Bull****

[Big Bad Bob]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2222904/Harry-Redknapp-wants-Blackburn-job--EXCLUSIVE.html

 

Edited 25 October, 2012 by Big Bad Bob
Feck : ignore the words impeachment and divorce, but you know what I mean

[Wade Garrett]

What the **** has the cost being offset by player sales got to do with him spending big on getting players in?

 

If he didn't have the money he wouldn't have got the quality of player in that he did and he would have failed...so who did he sell and for what? Was Berbatov one of them?

 

It has everything to do with it! He got £20m for Keane for a start, Crouch didn't go for exactly f*ck all either.

 

Personally, I don't want Redknapp here, but objectivity is going out of the window with this thread.

[egg]

 

Personally, I don't want Redknapp here, but objectivity is going out of the window with this thread.

 

Absolutely. I can't head my head around people:

 

(a) saying that it won't happen simply because they don't want it; and

 

(b) not being able/prepared to consider that the bloke might actually be able to improve the team; and

 

© saying that they'd rather see us go down than have him as boss.

 

I don't want the fella here but I'm prepared to accept that he has a decent track record and could bring something to the table.

[Big Bad Bob]

It has everything to do with it! He got £20m for Keane for a start, Crouch didn't go for exactly f*ck all either.

 

Personally, I don't want Redknapp here, but objectivity is going out of the window with this thread.

 

Did you actually read the second part of my reply?

 

I ask again, what has selling players got to do with the quality of player he got in (apart from it got him a bit more money) and the amount he spent??

[The9]

Although I'm going to get torn to pieces in my eyes this is the way to go. This defensive atrocity can't continue.

 

I agree, Redknapp certainly fixed it last time. Lets hope he can sign Davenport and Bernard again.

[The9]

Absolutely. I can't head my head around people:

 

(a) saying that it won't happen simply because they don't want it; and

(b) not being able/prepared to consider that the bloke might actually be able to improve the team; and

© saying that they'd rather see us go down than have him as boss.

 

I don't want the fella here but I'm prepared to accept that he has a decent track record and could bring something to the table.

 

I'd absolutely rather see us maintain our style of play with Adkins as the manager in the Championship than see us playing tedious Prem football for the sake of it.

 

Have we all forgotten that we enjoy winning matches at whatever level already or something ? I would MUCH rather we had stability, a side that wins more than it loses, that's involved in an exciting campaign, in a league where every match can be won or lost and there are no multibillionaire-led foregone conclusions and a decent turnover of opponents every season, and a genuinely likeable manager with progressive attitude and a feelgood feeling around the club than drudging around in the Prem feeling like we'd sold our souls, especially to that dodgy car-salesman anachronism in particular.

 

I fail to see how anything other than a more defensive outlook would improve current results, and it's not like we're overflowing with creatively brilliant lone strikers to take on the burden up front is it ?

[The Kraken]

What the **** has the cost being offset by player sales got to do with him spending big on getting players in?

 

If he didn't have the money he wouldn't have got the quality of player in that he did and he would have failed...so who did he sell and for what? Was Berbatov one of them?

 

Quite a lot, actually. He "spent" £105M on players, which as has been suggested is an enormous outlay. However for that same period Tottenham also received £68M from player sales; so a net outlay of £37M, comparitively not much more than we've just spent over one summer.

 

The following season Tottenham spent £3M more on transfers than fees received in (£31M spent, £28M received). The following year it was higher at £17M (or almost half our net spend this summer).

 

The idea that 'Arry was given about £100M and spent it all on transfers is plain daft. He spends big, and wages are probably very high which is a factor, but in the transfer market just looking at fees in and out he's got a decent record (and even did so at Pompey, funnily enough; it was the ongoing wages that crippled them, the transfer surplus was quite impressive).

[The9]

Besides, is this rumour wrong or is the one about us having a "new European manager in 3 weeks" wrong?

 

Spare me the semantics, Redknapp is not primarily "European".

[Wade Garrett]

Did you actually read the second part of my reply?

 

I ask again, what has selling players got to do with the quality of player he got in (apart from it got him a bit more money) and the amount he spent??

 

He took a failing squad and turned them around. He shipped players out for decent money and bought players in that were good enough to finish 4th in the league on more than one occasion. I wouldn't mind a few players of that 'quality' if it had a similar effect on us.

 

Face facts, he did an excellent job at Spurs.

[The9]

He took a failing squad and turned them around. He shipped players out for decent money and bought players in that were good enough to finish 4th in the league on more than one occasion. I wouldn't mind a few players of that 'quality' if it had a similar effect on us.

 

Face facts, he did an excellent job at Spurs.

 

He took a massively under-fit squad from Ramos which was clearly nothing like as bad as it's actual league position even at the time and initially made them vaguely average - Jol had them doing the same thing except far better only a few years before.

 

He then spent shedloads of cash (£100m+) bringing in players that would improve any team, and he also had the benefit of Gareth Bale, bought by the previous manager, turning into one of the world's top 10 players.

 

The point about Spurs receiving £68m from selling players doesn't indicate ANY value added by Redknapp, in fact he may have lost value on players through his oft-repeated policy of falling out with people and ignoring them for years, or just "not liking them".

 

Point being, the sales were of assets Spurs ALREADY HAD and which could have been worth more, yet he still needed to bring in over £100m worth of talent. It doesn't contribute to any discussion about Redknapp's ability as a manager that he realised he'd have to sell some of the people he wasn't going to ever pick - only players he originally signed and then sold on for a profit can enlighten that discussion.

 

My dog could spend £100m on top Prem players and make the team top 5 material, and my dog's been dead for 10 years.

 

"Value" comes from buying players, developing and selling at a profit, or from improving what you have. When has he EVER just improved what he has without throwing cash at it - and how exactly would that solve our problem until the Transfer Window re-opens when Adkins could sign better players for massive money just as well ?

Edited 25 October, 2012 by The9

[Big Bad Bob]

He took a massively under-fit squad from Ramos which was clearly nothing like as bad as it's actual league position even at the time and initially made them vaguely average - Jol had them doing the same thing except far better only a few years before.

 

He then spent shedloads of cash (£100m+) bringing in players that would improve any team, and he also had the benefit of Gareth Bale, bought by the previous manager, turning into one of the world's top 10 players.

 

The point about Spurs receiving £68m from selling players doesn't indicate ANY value added by Redknapp, in fact he may have lost value on players through his oft-repeated policy of falling out with people and ignoring them for years, or just "not liking them".

 

Point being, the sales were of assets Spurs ALREADY HAD and which could have been worth more, yet he still needed to bring in over £100m worth of talent. It doesn't contribute to any discussion about Redknapp's ability as a manager that he realised he'd have to sell some of the people he wasn't going to ever pick - only players he originally signed and then sold on for a profit can enlighten that discussion.

 

My dog could spend £100m on top Prem players and make the team top 5 material, and my dog's been dead for 10 years.

 

"Value" comes from buying players, developing and selling at a profit, or from improving what you have. When has he EVER just improved what he has without throwing cash at it - and how exactly would that solve our problem until the Transfer Window re-opens when Adkins could sign better players for massive money just as well ?

 

Thank you, you've put so eloquently what I was trying to say....

[Wade Garrett]

He took a massively under-fit squad from Ramos which was clearly nothing like as bad as it's actual league position even at the time and initially made them vaguely average - Jol had them doing the same thing except far better only a few years before.

 

He then spent shedloads of cash (£100m+) bringing in players that would improve any team, and he also had the benefit of Gareth Bale, bought by the previous manager, turning into one of the world's top 10 players.

 

The point about Spurs receiving £68m from selling players doesn't indicate ANY value added by Redknapp, in fact he may have lost value on players through his oft-repeated policy of falling out with people and ignoring them for years, or just "not liking them".

 

Point being, the sales were of assets Spurs ALREADY HAD and which could have been worth more, yet he still needed to bring in over £100m worth of talent. It doesn't contribute to any discussion about Redknapp's ability as a manager that he realised he'd have to sell some of the people he wasn't going to ever pick - only players he originally signed and then sold on for a profit can enlighten that discussion.

 

My dog could spend £100m on top Prem players and make the team top 5 material, and my dog's been dead for 10 years.

 

"Value" comes from buying players, developing and selling at a profit, or from improving what you have. When has he EVER just improved what he has without throwing cash at it - and how exactly would that solve our problem until the Transfer Window re-opens when Adkins could sign better players for massive money just as well ?

 

Your opinion, fair enough. My opinion is that he did a fantastic job at Spurs.

[Clifford Nelson]

It might not have occurred to many, but NC will not be associated with anything from the clubs past except ancient history. Players, managers, coaches, with the exception of Dodd and Williams they don't play a part, because he doesn't want the "old" Saints back (you remember the one losing away at Shrewsbury?). but want to create a new and exciting Saints. Redknapp coming back in any capacity doesn't stand a chance.

 

I don't even think that NA will get the sack. More likely that somebody may come in with extensive and successful experience of defense and 4-3-3, but at the end of their italian career and assist NA as Sporting Director or the likes for a year or two. Our club is looking long term. We will not start changing managers repeatedly, nor will we be fishing in the common old pond. I doubt very much that I'm wrong.

 

NC might be many things, but just another same-same owner he isn't.

[saint1977]

Never going to happen - seriously. Can you imagine Harry and Nicola getting on?

 

Probably the best thing that could happen IMO is that we stay in touch at the bottom and don't get anymore than 5 points adrift before January 1. Then Nigel is told to buy 2xCBs and 1xLB ready to start the first PL game after that and is told that's his number 1 priority. Moreover, if I were NC, I wouldn't allow him to sign ANY midfielders or strikers unless we have an injury crisis. To be honest, I'd have recalled Martin before now and offered Palace Jos instead.

[Ally Biggs]

Everyone on the get Adkins out train need to shut up and sit the f**K down, Give the man a chance It's been 8 games, half of these were against decent teams did you really think the likes of us would beat Man United or City or Everton hell even Wigan and Fulham have been in this league and know the ins and out and know how to put pressure on and turn it on when required.

 

Yes some of our players are not up to it, Fox is useless, And our two central defenders are iffy. But rather then put Adkins down we as fans need to get behind him and give him a chance he has a vision for this club. Rodriguez obviously is a buy for a future, get sharp back off lone and put him up front with Lambert.

 

Keeper situation you need stability and rotating the keeps week in week out isn't going to do that. Harry Redknapp? really? pfffffffft I would rather have Adkins anyday of the week give the man a chance he will come through in the end worst case scenario we go down, is that really a big deal? parachute payments, Sell Ramirez keep Adkins we will be back stronger, people need to stop being a bunch of *****es and the real saints fans need to support and get behind the team and Adkins nuff sed

[Saint Fan CaM]

It's going to be Benitez...put your money on it now.

[The Kraken]

He took a massively under-fit squad from Ramos which was clearly nothing like as bad as it's actual league position even at the time and initially made them vaguely average - Jol had them doing the same thing except far better only a few years before.

 

He then spent shedloads of cash (£100m+) bringing in players that would improve any team, and he also had the benefit of Gareth Bale, bought by the previous manager, turning into one of the world's top 10 players.

 

The point about Spurs receiving £68m from selling players doesn't indicate ANY value added by Redknapp, in fact he may have lost value on players through his oft-repeated policy of falling out with people and ignoring them for years, or just "not liking them".

 

Point being, the sales were of assets Spurs ALREADY HAD and which could have been worth more, yet he still needed to bring in over £100m worth of talent. It doesn't contribute to any discussion about Redknapp's ability as a manager that he realised he'd have to sell some of the people he wasn't going to ever pick - only players he originally signed and then sold on for a profit can enlighten that discussion.

 

My dog could spend £100m on top Prem players and make the team top 5 material, and my dog's been dead for 10 years.

 

"Value" comes from buying players, developing and selling at a profit, or from improving what you have. When has he EVER just improved what he has without throwing cash at it - and how exactly would that solve our problem until the Transfer Window re-opens when Adkins could sign better players for massive money just as well ?

 

What a very, very strange post. Manager gets criticised for selling players and bringing in better ones; all within a budget given to him by the CEO. The dog analogy about sums it up.

[Mr X]

It's going to be Benitez...put your money on it now.

 

HP sauce?

[egg]

I'd absolutely rather see us maintain our style of play with Adkins as the manager in the Championship than see us playing tedious Prem football for the sake of it.

 

Have we all forgotten that we enjoy winning matches at whatever level already or something ? I would MUCH rather we had stability, a side that wins more than it loses, that's involved in an exciting campaign, in a league where every match can be won or lost and there are no multibillionaire-led foregone conclusions and a decent turnover of opponents every season, and a genuinely likeable manager with progressive attitude and a feelgood feeling around the club than drudging around in the Prem feeling like we'd sold our souls, especially to that dodgy car-salesman anachronism in particular.

 

I fail to see how anything other than a more defensive outlook would improve current results, and it's not like we're overflowing with creatively brilliant lone strikers to take on the burden up front is it ?

 

That makes little sense. To see us winning more games than not in a lower league season after season would mean getting relegated and then having to settle for being a team who never quite get promotion. Why would you want that?

 

If we drop down and win loads we get promoted. We either then flounder like we are so far or consolidate playing "tedious" football as you put it.

[jjsaint]

I would rather have any of the following before 'Arry:

 

- Burley

- Poortvliet

- Wigley

- Dennis Wise

- Cotterill

 

Prefer to keep Nigel though, failing that a decent manager whose name doesn't start with an 'A.

[Cabrone]

Everyone on the get Adkins out train need to shut up and sit the f**K down, Give the man a chance It's been 8 games, half of these were against decent teams did you really think the likes of us would beat Man United or City or Everton hell even Wigan and Fulham have been in this league and know the ins and out and know how to put pressure on and turn it on when required.

 

Agreed, whilst I think Harry's a great manager who did a brilliant job at Spurs Nige is our manager and right now him and the team need the support of all the fans.

 

Nige will come good but he needs time. Remember Fergie took 4+ years to get things going at Man Unt.

 

Patience + realistic expectations are needed, survival will be an achievement.

 

If we survive then we can concentrate on moving up the table.

 

Best of luck Harry but not at SFC.

[NickG]

HR is no mug as a manager, but I honestly believe he is overrated due to his popularity with the media and within the game.

 

I remember Lowe commenting that he was approached by HR after he left WHU, Lowe made some comment that WHU had one of the 4 highest wage bills in the premiership and HR only just escaped relegation.

 

The saving spurs story is a bit of a myth.

 

The three seasons before HR

05/06 5th 65 points

06/07 5th 60 points

7/08 11th 46 points

 

Then arrived Arry.

 

The squad that had finshed 11th had just had these players added to it;

 

Modric £17m

Santos £9m

Gomes £8m

Bentley £15m

Pavluchenko £14m

Corluka £9m

 

 

Arry also added in the January window

 

Defoe £15m

Palacios £12m

Chimbonda £2.5m

Cudicini free

Keane £12m

 

Arry, with his management skills, and an addition of a mere £105m worth of talent, took a team from 11th (46 points) to 8th (51 points).

 

The next season he only spent £30m on Crouch(£10m) Bassong (£8m) Kaboul (£8m) plus few others, season after £20m on Sandro (£6m) Van Der Vaat(£8m) Piernaar (£3m) Gallas free. Before slowing down with Parker £6m.

 

This management, and spending, took spurs from

04/05 9th (52)

05/05 5th (65)

06/07 5th (60)

07/08 11th (46)

 

to

 

08/09 8th (51)

09/10 4th (70)

10/11 5th (62)

11/12 4th (69)

 

Yes improvement, yes decent experienced manager, but not manager who dragged Spurs from nowhere like some suggest..and was at huge cost.

 

Its quite sweet how some have fallen for Arry's charm and believe he built spurs from nothing, on his own and cheaply!

 

The side he inherited for his first game;

 

Tottenham: Gomes, Hutton, Corluka, King, Assou-Ekotto, Bentley, Jenas, Huddlestone, Modric, O'Hara (Lennon 70), Pavlyuchenko (Bent 67).

Subs Not Used: Cesar, Zokora, Gunter, Giovani, Campbell.

 

His first transfer window did see some in and some out...

 

in..

With the January transfer window opening on 1 January, Tottenham made movement in the market straight away. On 6 January 2009, Jermain Defoe returned to the club from Portsmouth in a deal worth an initial £9million with extras and the writing off of past transfer fees in Pedro Mendes and Defoe himself meant the media announced the fee £15 million,[61] Just over 2 weeks later, Tottenham came to an agreement for the transfer of Wilson Palacios for a fee of £12 million from Wigan, the deal for Palacios was concluded on 30 January with the approval of a work permit.[62] Tottenham also signed experienced goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini from Chelsea on a free transfer[63] and also concluded a deal to re-sign Pascal Chimbonda from Sunderland for a fee thought to be around £3 million,[64] On the final day of the transfer window, Tottenham resigned their third former player in a month, signing striker Robbie Keane for a fee of an initial £12 million, which, depending on circumstances, can rise to £15 million.[65]

 

out...

The departures in January saw Andy Barcham made his loan move to Gillingham permanent for an undisclosed fee,[66] four days later, Charlie Daniels left Tottenham to join Leyton Orient on a free transfer.[67] On 21 January, Veteran goalkeeper Cesar Sanchez contract was cancelled so he could return to Spain to play for Spanish club Valencia.[68] and two days later, Tottenham outcast Hossam Ghaly joined Saudi-Arabian club Al-Nasr for an undisclosed price.[69]

 

 

Somehow, despite losing Andy Barcham and Charlie Daniels and only spending 50 odd million in January, he managed to take a team that had struggled in 11th, that had only had 50 odd million added in the summer..to climb 3 places....if you think that is excellent turn around, either you fall for his charm, or you have a very different view on excellent management to me.

 

That excellent and exceeding what his spending should achieve that he was sacked!

[Turkish]

Quite a lot, actually. He "spent" £105M on players, which as has been suggested is an enormous outlay. However for that same period Tottenham also received £68M from player sales; so a net outlay of £37M, comparitively not much more than we've just spent over one summer.

 

The following season Tottenham spent £3M more on transfers than fees received in (£31M spent, £28M received). The following year it was higher at £17M (or almost half our net spend this summer).

 

The idea that 'Arry was given about £100M and spent it all on transfers is plain daft. He spends big, and wages are probably very high which is a factor, but in the transfer market just looking at fees in and out he's got a decent record (and even did so at Pompey, funnily enough; it was the ongoing wages that crippled them, the transfer surplus was quite impressive).

 

Redknapps net spend is actually much less than that because players like Bentley an Pavlucheko were signed by the previous manager a month before he arrived. Still it won't prevent the clueless divs on here ignoring the facts and continuing to peddle the myth the he spent hundreds of millions to 'only' finish 4th 5th and 4th.

[Bearsy]

Somehow, despite losing Andy Barcham and Charlie Daniels and only spending 50 odd million in January, he managed to take a team that had struggled in 11th, that had only had 50 odd million added in the summer..to climb 3 places....if you think that is excellent turn around, either you fall for his charm, or you have a very different view on excellent management to me.!

 

He took over after 8 games and they were on 2 points. They were worse than us!

[Turkish]

yes great, how much did he have to spend to do that and his reckless spending (chairman to blame also) bankrupted the skates!

 

Name me one club that has consistently finished in the top 5 that hasn't spent massively.

[The Kraken]

Redknapps net spend is actually much less than that because players like Bentley an Pavlucheko were signed by the previous manager a month before he arrived. Still it won't prevent the clueless divs on here ignoring the facts and continuing to peddle the myth the he spent hundreds of millions to 'only' finish 4th 5th and 4th.

 

It's quite something. I don't think you, I, or anyone else is saying he's an amazing manager. He's probably done about as well as I'd expect a decent manager would do given the resources he's enjoyed. Do I want him here? Absolutely not. But the clueless comments of how cr*p he is, The9's barking analogy with his dead dog (pun completely intended) and how one particular moron would prefer Poortvliet et all in charge, well I can't do much with stupidity like that. And poor old NickG has taken to quoting his own school essay to try and convince himself he's right.

[Turkish]

It's quite something. I don't think you, I, or anyone else is saying he's an amazing manager. He's probably done about as well as I'd expect a decent manager would do given the resources he's enjoyed. Do I want him here? Absolutely not. But the clueless comments of how cr*p he is, The9's barking analogy with his dead dog (pun completely intended) and how one particular moron would prefer Poortvliet et all in charge, well I can't do much with stupidity like that. And poor old NickG has taken to quoting his own school essay to try and convince himself he's right.

 

When you consider Martin O'neill who many would shoot their load over being linked with had a net spend at Aston Villa of around £70m and never finished higher than 6th it puts into perspective just how badly Redkrap (lol) has done to have a net spend of less than a third of that and 'only' finish 4th twice and 5th.

[The Kraken]

When you consider Martin O'neill who many would shoot their load over being linked with had a net spend at Aston Villa of around £70m and never finished higher than 6th it puts into perspective just how badly Redkrap (lol) has done to have a net spend of less than a third of that and 'only' finish 4th twice and 5th.

 

Also take a look at Liverpool to see what sort of guarantee spending "hundreds of millions" provides for a high league finish. Maybe they should have gone for The9's dead mutt after all.

[dronskisaint]

Fingers crossed this is just an early leak to see how the fanbase would react.

 

Nicola: His reappointment in place of an honourable man like Nigel would make me sick to my very core. I would rather be relegated with our dignity preserved then have that vile scumbag back involved with us.

 

100% agree

 

The multi-faced pondlife took us down ffs and then fuktoff back to them!!!!!!!!!

[Turkish]

Also take a look at Liverpool to see what sort of guarantee spending "hundreds of millions" provides for a high league finish. Maybe they should have gone for The9's dead mutt after all.

 

Quite; prehaps we should look at his record of signing players and selling them on for a profit at Pompey if this is the only way to gauge it. Now who was there? Johnson, Diarra, Muntari off the top of my head all sold at a huge profit. But that can't be true because he backrupted Pompey singlehandedly.

[Colbury]

Declared an interest in Blackburn job.

 

Smokescreen to try and hurry Don Cortese up perhaps?

[DrunkenSaint]

I'd welcome him back but only if he does not spend spend spend and place all of his signings on ridiculous wages and he keeps the youngsters in mind. Also he is not allowed to walk out if England go asking if he starts to do well for us. Probably would sort out the defence with some good signings and keep our style of play.

[Fitzhugh Fella]

The latest name on the wind that blows down my road is.....Strachan