Harry said he'd go if we fail to go up and I still think he'd go even if by some miracle we did go up. I suggested Hoddle earlier this season and still think he'd get us playing a decent style of football, but he'd need to be given time to get things right, at least two to three years to rebuild the club from top to bottom with the emphasis on youth development. Having run his Spanish coaching school I'd guess he'd be able to bring in some young talent that would be a vast improvement on the ageing has-beens we're currently mopping up...
H until the end of the season and keep him if we go up (no choice). If we don't go up I will be delighted if he walks but fully expect him to hang around for the payout. Then I believe any manager with ambition and energy would love the job - they get to choose a new squad almost from scratch, and I hope they would be given 2 seasons to get us back up. Hoddle, Zola, someone who loves good football would be handy.
You want Hoddle but Wolverhampton fans slated Hoddle for the same things you're slating Redknapp. Hoddle had his time as manager and failed at Spurs while Redknapp is our best premier league manager so I can't see any basis to believe Hoddle would be any better.
I don't know what Norway's hoping to achieve with that OP. What good would changing the Manager at this stage do? We should at least wait until the season's end. Nonsense thread
Norway isn't suggesting that we change manager, he is asking those who want to change maanger to state who they would like to see come in and what the new manager would offer. But then you knew that didn't you?
We've been on a downward spiral for months. We look disjointed and incapable of creating more than two half decent chances in a game. I'm usually very tolerant but I'm running out of patience. I can't see Harry turning this around. Can you? Hoddle No 1 McKay Mo 2
Hoddle got sacked from spurs cos he fell out with David pleat...we don't have a dof for him to clash with.I'm 28 and he got England playing the best football I've seen us play and this is the same bloke that built the chavs up and changed the whole mentality of that club.
He got sacked from Spurs because he failed as a manager and had an ego which caused issues with team morale. Yes he was good at international level but that's a completely different style of management to club football. If you look at Hoddles career his best work in club management came when he was young, a player manager and ambitious. He's past it now and you haven't a clue if you want Redknapp sacked and then suggest people like Hoddle to replace him.
So, despite making a post, you've named no-one. Its the usual from you. Never commit yourself because you might be proven wrong. Its so easy to slag off everything, any fool can do that. But it requires a bit of summink to put forward a positive argument or an alternative. Neither of which you're capable of doing.
Yes hoddle had an ego in his early days, but he's 50 odd now and probably much wiser With a lot less of an ego.Spurs had some mixed results with hoddle in charge, but ultimately got sacked cos he fell out with Pleat over transfers!
Hoddle will also have a point to prove so will Be hungry.Along with Eddie nHowe and Alan Pardew(if sacked) he is worth considering
I'm happy to admit that I don't know what we should do. We have to see out the season with Redknapp, and when we nick a win next weekend much of this will be forgotten, but should we fail to achieve promotion at the end of the season I don't know the way forwards. What would you do Swords?
I've since gone back and read through the thread (which I should have done in the first place) and I've misread the OP. Apologies Thor. (Although I noticed two or three other fellas misunderstood it too but didn't get accused of wumming....)
I know what happened at Spurs considering it's the team I follow but he wasn't sacked over falling out with Pleat. He had a fairly awful league record and while at the end he and Pleat never saw eye to eye, that was an excuse as he lost the dressing room. Hoddle Is A Spurs legend and would be great for working with kids but he doesn't have the man management skills to be a club manager. You would end up moaning and wishing you never employed him.
Do you think its appropriate for someone who was calling for the sacking of the Manager since before a ball was kicked this season, to not have one single replacement in mind out of all the hundreds of potential candidates out there? Isn't that just a case of mugging off the Club from top to bottom (including Fernandes), which any clown can do and then claiming he was right all along when, again, a three year old could do as good? The very least that should be asked of an incessant critic is that he be able to put forward a theory for a better way. Or have our standards dropped that much? In answer to the OP, I wouldn't sack Redknapp now. It would serve no purpose. At the end of the season it all depends whether we're in the Prem or the Champ. If we go up then he's earned a crack at it. If we don't and they come to a severance agreement then I'd go down the route of a Malky Macaky or perhaps even a Steve Clarke type Manager. I'd definitely keep it British. But I'll tell you one thing for sure. Whoever we get in, Flyer will say its a bad appointment and want rid as soon as he loses a match. That much, I'm absolutely certain about.
Having seen us over-run by Burnley, Derby, and now Reading, and our response, I cant disagree with a single word. I would like to see a young ambitious manager, building a young ambitious side - So Malky would be my choice
I've spent the evening with a semi-ITK lady who told me a few interesting things. Apparently TF personally brought in McClaren for a number of reasons. 1. There was a stand off between TF and Harry last summer where TF wanted rid but Harry wouldn't go and was too expensive to sack. 2. TF bought in McClaren as his own man and made Harry work with him. 3. Harry didn't want McClaren. 4. TF expected Harry to move on at some stage. Interesting stuff and makes sense. TF has gone very very quiet in recent months and Amit is a non entity. Our media happy chairman suddenly has nothing to say. Another f••k up perhaps?
I would have phrased it differently, but I'd agree that a positive suggestion would be appropriate, although I'm no better myself. Any chance of a name Flyer? You say foreign, how about Laudrup? Mackay I guess is a good call, but please not Clarke. I'd want someone who will actually build the club properly from the youth team up, I doubt that would suit the owners' immediate needs though. If Flyer thinks it is a bad appointment he wont wait for us to lose a match.
