Redknapp feels his side, who were promoted through the play-offs last season, are short of quality compared to some of their relegation rivals. "I keep saying that seven or eight of my team were playing last season in the Championship and finished miles behind Burnley and Leicester. "We are down there and scrapping away with them, but they were miles in front of us last year." Redknapp recalled Adel Taarabt at Turf Moor after three months out of favour, and has brought in forward Mauro Zarate on loan from West Ham this month. But he says he is short of options in attack and is finding it "difficult" to add to his squad. "We need to get Mauro up to speed and get his fitness up, that is the key for him," added Redknapp. "Adel had trained okay and I have not got a lot of options - I have only got two strikers at the club, Bobby Zamora and Charlie Austin. "Bobby could not train on Friday because his back was sore so I took a gamble, threw Adel in and I thought he did okay. "I am looking to strengthen but we are only looking at loans, if we can find one. It is very difficult to get people in on loan at this time of year." WHAT A LOT OF SXXT
Vargas is a striker. He has had ample opportunity to get a striker in a few transfer windows. It's all starting to get a tad boring now. He has brought Caulker, Ferdinand , Mutch, Fer, Sandro, Isla, Vargas to the club. Green an international along with dunne granted retired but still played at the top level. Austin one of the hottest strikers in the league. That's not our championship team. What a load of rubbish he is talking
What a senile old fool. Sack him now before its too late. What was the excuse when he played Sheffield united or Burton?! Redknapp had 10 million pounds worth of summer signings unused on the bench today. Another 16 million on Fer and Caulker plus 3 Chilean internationals. Dyche must find these comments hillarious. Redknapp is embarrassing himself and the club
It's that time of year again....it's all the players' fault. Talking them down, not good enough for the Prem, can't get the players he wants etc etc. By my calculation only 6 of the starting line up were regulars last year - Green, Dunne, Hill, Barton, Henry and Austin. Adel was on loan all last year. Hill is only playing because of injury to Yun, Dunne is only playing because Redknapp's signing Ferdinand is a one man fiasco. Dunne, Henry and Austin have been just about our best players this season. He's talking bollocks, undermining his own team, anything to avoid taking any responsibility himself. Nobody believes him, he's an embarrassment. Has this ****er said sorry once in the three years of dire football we have had to endure?
Redknapp's right, this isn't a team even worthy of the Championship. There is not one CC side with a defence worse than ours. A midfield containing Barton and Henry with Mutch on the bench just says it all. Then you have a geriatric in Zamora, useless SwP and Toilet, and to be fair a soon to be found out average striker. What did we honestly expect? We've been generally lucky the league is sh....e and we've somehow scraped wins at home - what now? Redknapp has not spunked as much as Hughes and Warnock, but my, has he wasted all our time. I now officially feel sorry for Tony and the other investors - And now, let the praying ( or drinking) begin.
Hard to argue with any of that. The two options as I see it are: 1. Sack him now and hope that with better organisation the squad can keep us up. With the other teams seemingly having more fight and some new managers though, that's a long shot. Or 2. Keep as we are and hope for a miracle, and HR then leaves end of season. Again it's a risk as I can't see him keeping us up the way things are. Before today I was on number 2. but now I think we need number 1. Either option is a big risk, but I'm not sure I an stand much more of Redknapp's excuses, moaning how hard it is, etc, etc. the above assumes that the. Board would surely not want him to continue after the season, whatever division we are in. Surely not. Over the years we've had to put up with some **** managers, Paul Hart comes to my mind, but I don't think. I can remember someone who within 2 years who has fallen from his podium so dramatically. I think we the fans have been extremely patient, but looking at today's game and reading the message boards I think the tide has turned for him. Week after week we are hearing the same old stories with the same old reasons for failure, intermixed with some lucky and sometimes plucky results at home. The other small problem is who replaces him? And who would want to join us.? I'm glad I'm not the chairman having to solve that.
Harry should have been sacked while Pulis was still available. I'm really beginning to struggle to understand what he brings us. I'm afraid I know where is he bringing us.
We had Ned on the bench. And then he substituted Henry for OBZ, rightly, as he played ****e, got turned around, played out of position, couldn't keep up. But then he brought on Traore for Clint, as he believes he has no options at LB. But I think Ned would have done just fine. And Traore is also ****e. Then by throwing on Zarate and taking off Vargas, what was he trying to achieve up front, a 4-3-3?
The one thing, the first thing, Pulis does is get the defensive unit working well. That was how he saved Palarse last season. That is what we are in dire need of (since the start of the season). One thing I really don't get with Harry (or Warnock before) was constantly telling everyone (the players) they lack quality and aren't EPL standard. I'd be well pissed off hearing that every week and want to go somewhere I was appreciated.
Agree some players are obviously lacking in confidence and to hear Harry always saying the players arnt prem quality really isn't going to help them.
