Harry Redknapp gone

[Spursidol]

Yup. 'Arry could well be an ITK...he has that much sauce

Nah, when you are tallking about ITK think you mean he will be a source, not sauce

 

[StartingPrice]

Nah, when you are tallking about ITK think you mean he will be a source, not sauce

I was wagging those goode folke who routinely misspell the former when they do, in fact, mean the latter
Mr Redknapp will be a source for verbal diarhaea, much as he has been while THFC manager

 

[beats1]

I think harry is bait obsessed on spending money to build a team instead of finding the right piece for the jigsaw imo

 

[ryantegan]

Harry is well pissed. I expect more anti spurs stories in the press when he gets back

 

[Berglad]

Harry is well pissed. I expect more anti spurs stories in the press when he gets back

Any idea why he pressed so hard with the 3 year extension or nothing approach (hiring Stretford to get it done), instead of just negotiating around 1 year extension Levy was supposedly offering? Did he not think he would be fired, or did he just not want the job on an interim basis (given the job for this season but with it under review again next summer, basically).

 

[ryantegan]

Any idea why he pressed so hard with the 3 year extension or nothing approach (hiring Stretford to get it done), instead of just negotiating around 1 year extension Levy was supposedly offering? Did he not think he would be fired, or did he just not want the job on an interim basis (given the job for this season but with it under review again next summer, basically).

I don't think levy was offering anything

There lie the problem

 

[whitelightwhiteheat]

It's funny that Harry hired that Stretford bloke cos he's known as a tough negotiator, and got Rooney his massive new contract at United.

And when it came to negotiating for Redknapp - well, there was no negotiation. He was just sacked!

 

[Spursidol]

Any idea why he pressed so hard with the 3 year extension or nothing approach (hiring Stretford to get it done), instead of just negotiating around 1 year extension Levy was supposedly offering? Did he not think he would be fired, or did he just not want the job on an interim basis (given the job for this season but with it under review again next summer, basically).

I thought it might be Stretford/HR deciding Spurs replacement manager (Rogers) had gone to Liverpool so chances were that Spurs might not want to risk sacking HR and given he would be paid out on his last year the downside risk was low.

HR walks away with £3m and will no doubt do media work for a while before picking up another job somewhere. If Spurs had caved in he might have got a more lucrative 3-4 year contract. As I say maybe seen as low risk - he wins something whichever way it went.

 

[Spursidol]

I don't think levy was offering anything

There lie the problem

No real problem to HR - last year of contract paid out plus media work. Onwards and upwards after that as far as HR concerned. If he had got a 3 - 4 year contract, no problem either.

 

[StartingPrice]

Any idea why he pressed so hard with the 3 year extension or nothing approach (hiring Stretford to get it done), instead of just negotiating around 1 year extension Levy was supposedly offering? Did he not think he would be fired, or did he just not want the job on an interim basis (given the job for this season but with it under review again next summer, basically).

Thought his hand was much stronger than it was.
Refused to accept that there was any connection between England-Gate and our capitulation. Because he believes that there is no connection to make, no one could possibily make that connection. Because he doesn't recognise that he went missing (alleged) at that time, no-one could have noticed it as it didn't happen.

 

[3Dnata]

Thought his hand was much stronger than it was.
Refused to accept that there was any connection between England-Gate and our capitulation. Because he believes that there is no connection to make, no one could possibily make that connection. Because he doesn't recognise that he went missing (alleged) at that time, no-one could have noticed it as it didn't happen.

Plus we'd never had it so good. He's currently never had it so good either.

 

[StartingPrice]

Plus we'd never had it so good. He's currently never had it so good either.

Well, no...because we have always been legends, by bottling last season we were not doing any worse than usual...I suppose

 

[Montasura]

Thought his hand was much stronger than it was.
Refused to accept that there was any connection between England-Gate and our capitulation. Because he believes that there is no connection to make, no one could possibily make that connection. Because he doesn't recognise that he went missing (alleged) at that time, no-one could have noticed it as it didn't happen.

Dunno SP, there's always the possibility that he hired Stretford and deliberately pushed for a 3 year extension knowing that there was no way in hell Levy would accept it, thus forcing Levy's hand into sacking him and having to pay out the compensation.

Conspiracy theorist? Me??

 

[thfcsteff]

Dunno SP, there's always the possibility that he hired Stretford and deliberately pushed for a 3 year extension knowing that there was no way in hell Levy would accept it, thus forcing Levy's hand into sacking him and having to pay out the compensation.

Conspiracy theorist? Me??

I'm a buyer! As for ryantegan's comments about Harry being 'pissed' and to 'expect more stories when he's back' I have to say, what an enormous surprise, and I wonder when anyone will have the balls in the mainstream press to actually call out the things he did wrong which led to this and which are NOT all about "the last three months", honestly, the guy does not know when to STFU...I guarantee you won't see Levy & co responding with dirt. Too much dignity. Their silence will sepal louder about things than Harry's bleating to the "salt of the earth" people of the world...

 

[Montasura]

I'm a buyer! As for ryantegan's comments about Harry being 'pissed' and to 'expect more stories when he's back' I have to say, what an enormous surprise, and I wonder when anyone will have the balls in the mainstream press to actually call out the things he did wrong which led to this and which are NOT all about "the last three months", honestly, the guy does not know when to STFU...I guarantee you won't see Levy & co responding with dirt. Too much dignity. Their silence will sepal louder about things than Harry's bleating to the "salt of the earth" people of the world...

Even if it was all about the last three months, people seem to forget that the poor run we had during those three months was actually worse than the poor run that got Ramos sacked !!!

 

[StartingPrice]

Dunno SP, there's always the possibility that he hired Stretford and deliberately pushed for a 3 year extension knowing that there was no way in hell Levy would accept it, thus forcing Levy's hand into sacking him and having to pay out the compensation.

Conspiracy theorist? Me??

It's a possibility.
I just think he thought he could expect the same as was reputedly on offer at the start of England-Gate.

 

[sloth]

I don't think levy was offering anything

There lie the problem

I know you're not trying to defend him, just putting forward his view, but for what it is worth my view is that the real point is he was offered a contract of a certain length and remuneration, which came with a list of responsibilities which Harry was happy to sign a couple of years back. The question is, why Harry was happy with the terms then, signed up to them, but suddenly thought they weren't enough now? He had a year left on his contract, a year to convince his employers he was worthy of an extension, but he suddenly felt he was better than that. It was his prerogative of course, and nothing wrong with valuing oneself highly, but the deal was the deal, and suddenly it wasn't good enough. I can't really see what Levy could have done differently in the circumstances.

 

[sloth]

I'm a buyer! As for ryantegan's comments about Harry being 'pissed' and to 'expect more stories when he's back' I have to say, what an enormous surprise, and I wonder when anyone will have the balls in the mainstream press to actually call out the things he did wrong which led to this and which are NOT all about "the last three months", honestly, the guy does not know when to STFU...I guarantee you won't see Levy & co responding with dirt. Too much dignity. Their silence will sepal louder about things than Harry's bleating to the "salt of the earth" people of the world...

Only thing that might happen is that if there is a confidentiality agreement and Harry breaches it he may find that he doesn't get his contract paid up.

 

[SpurSince57]

Even if it was all about the last three months, people seem to forget that the poor run we had during those three months was actually worse than the poor run that got Ramos sacked !!!

We took 16 points from the last 12 games. This was pretty crap in comparison to the previous 26, but altogether better than Ramos' last 12, from which we took just 6, with one win.

Yes, people do seem to forget, don't they? Any more history to rewrite?

 

[StartingPrice]

We took 16 points from the last 12 games. This was pretty crap in comparison to the previous 26, but altogether better than Ramos' last 12, from which we took just 6, with one win.

Yes, people do seem to forget, don't they? Any more history to rewrite?

You can't recommend getting shot in the leg just because getting shot in the bollocks is worse