3 Reasons Why QPR Must Sack Harry Redknapp . There are three things you could always rely on with Harry Redknapp â a headstrong commitment to his preferred formation, a mercurial gift for man management and some incredibly savvy activity in the transfer market. In recent months he has displayed none of the above for the relegation-bound QPR. For us, that is more than enough to suggest he should get his marching orders or at least take his retirement now. 1) Formation Crisis Of Confidence Famously Harry Redknappâs tactical guidance doesnât go much further than âget out there and enjoy yourself.â Back in 2010 Rafael van der Vaart said: "There is a clipboard in our dressing room, but Harry doesn't write anything on it. It's not that we do nothing â but it's close to that." Giving that weakness, itâs quite incredible that âArry has endured for so long, racking up notable promotions and European achievements along the way. Oddly enough, Harry did invest some time in a tactical restructuring of formation during preseason. Wishing to bolster his clubâs chance of survival, he started the season warm-up with a 3-5-2 formation, bringing in bespoke players and even Glenn Hoddle to enforce the new approach. Despite all that effort in recruitment and drilling the players in their new responsibilities the formation was dropped after just two Premier League games â back came the 4-4-2. The ability to u-turn can be a noble quality in a manager but the decision smacked of a childish lack of patience, a complete waste of resources and a very blurry sense of how the club can stay a float in the top tier. 2) Minimal Man Management Redknappâs tactical naivety was more often than not remedied by some top class man management - no one could put an arm around a player like Harry could. His teams are famously fueled by hunger, desire, pride. Crucially for QPR, they are not showing any of the characteristics on that list. The Hoops have been labored and languid nearly every game this season, and most concerning of all they looked completely lifeless against London rivals West Ham and Tottenham. Harryâs passive and half hearted response both in the dugout and in post match press conferences after these defeats all point to one thing: his heart is not in it anymore. That tallies with his life plans â last season he said they he would retire if QPR failed to grab promotion. If Harry canât rally himself to get up for a game and the Premier League challenge in general, there is zero chance that his team will either. 3) Pitiful Striker Search The Guardian recently picked out a very revealing quote from QPR assistant Kevin Bond: âWe havenât got goalscorers in the side. Weâve got creative players, people who make opportunities, and theyâll all chip in with a couple of goals a season but you need to know whether your strikers can give you 20 goals a season. Or you need a Frank Lampard-type of midfielder who will get into double figures, and we havenât got enough of them.â The statement perfectly fits the situation at QPR â they are painfully blunt up top - only Burnley have scored less goals this campaign. Charlie Austin, for all his endeavor, is not a Premier League class striker and the 33-year-old Bobby Zamora lacks the fitness or sharpness to rediscover his Premier League heyday. Crucially that quote does not come from October 2014, it comes from December 2013. The conclusion is obvious â Harry Redknapp has had a fatal flaw in his side for a whole year, but has completely failed to resolve it. As well as being able to motivate players to muster the best of their potential, Harry is of course notorious for boosting his clubs by snaffling some excellent deals on deadline day â but even that talent has deserted him. Back in September, Harry made 11th hour moves for Jermaine Defoe and Peter Crouch but neither got close to completion. Itâs all happy days when these last minute purchases go through but when they donât it exposes Harry as an irresponsible chancer. It was painfully obvious that Loic Remi was going to leave Loftus Road, yet Harry reacted as if it was a shock â the carpet pulled from under his feet. Plus bringing back his former players is hardly an imaginative approach, it might even border on lazy. The signings of Niko Kranjcar and Sandro have not done the business â the latter seemed an especially foolish buy when QPR are desperately crying out for some playmaking class in midfield, not another combative warhorse.
Pretty much sums up what we've been saying on here for the last two years. If we can all see it for free, why can't the bloke who's being paid upwards of two million a year not?
Disagree massively with Austin not being a PL class striker. The lads managed to score two goals so far with absolutely no service whatsoever, and has been isolated in virtually every single game we've played. And he's simply not played enough PL football for anyone to judge. You certainly can't judge him when he's playing in this team at the moment.
The article is spot-on, add to that the sale of Simpson and the attempted sale of Traore and it would suggest Harry has lost the plot. It's the blind leading the blind at the moment. Compare Harry to Steve Bruce and note the difference...
I disagree with the Niko comment. I think he has been one of our better players. Sandro might be a mistake. He has to get fit first. Rio was the worst signing if we had stuck with 3 at the back it might of work. Sticking him as one of two centre backs was a bad move. What makes it worse is we have Ned sat on the bench.
Precisely ................... Niko has been one of our few shining lights. Number four should read ....... No: 4 - Part 1 - Our team is coming last but Harry still can find the time to do another book release to the media. Part 2 - Watch our great new signing Rio do another book release to the media. Part 3 - Watch and read one of our latest acquisitions to the coaching ranks, Glen 'Media tart' Hoddle do a weekly newspaper wrap. Part 4 - The addition of Les Ferdinand must mean he's about to release a 'tell all' book. Part 5 - Coming to our club very soon ................... TF looking to bring in Roy Keane and Kevin Pieterson while they're hot in book release mode. Sign em up quick! Newsflash - Part 6 - Joey has a book coming !!! Seems like Harrys' got the whole team writing books instead of playing football ...... I knew there was a logical explanation! .......... and we fans wonder why our beloved team is stone motherless last.
it may be time for HR to go but that article is not spot on at all. We need good defensive midfielders to protect a fragile back 4 - so the bit about Sandro is cobblers for starters. When fit he should be a good signing. The pitiful striker search is pure speculation, we don't know that. In fact what we do know is that we'd agreed terms with Defoe before Toronto pulled the plug at the 11th hour. After Remy had had no offers, except the Liverpool saga, up until 2 days before the window ended actually it was perfectly likely that he would have ended up at Rangers (albeit while wanting to be elsewhere). WHo would have predicted that Chelsea move - nobody. The primary reason for HR's replacement, at the moment, is the team looks unmotivated and not up for the hurly burly of Premiership survival. For someone of his alleged man management talents that aint good enough. It's not even as much about that tactics as it is about getting them up for it every game and not strolling about like prima donnas. Relegated teams usually stay up because there's hunger and desire - if hr can't instil that in our lot then that's why he should go. The Niko comment is cobblers too. He's been pretty good. Also…whats Hoddle up to? No visible improvement since he joined.
3 reasons!!! A hundred and three.................... We have no hope under Arry and the quicker hes gone the better. Austin has a lot to learn, he needs to gain experience and he will but Zamora was a lot more involved than him when he came on.
Spurs,Spurs Spurs, Spurs etc................ This is QPR FFS. http://metro.co.uk/2014/10/09/arsen...ttenham-transfer-says-harry-redknapp-4898921/ http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/tran...-suarez-and-patrick-vieira-for-tottenham.html
I'm sure everyone is professional when they are at the club but there will potentially be a knock-on with the extra-curricular activities. The night before a game is where a lot of work can be done to mentally prepare for a game. Of course, they might also forfeit their media efforts the day before a game and we're assuming the worst but to fans, frustrated by results, performances and, above all else, the apparent lack of effort, it sounds like training is more akin to a coffee morning. For the sake of us fans, it's important at times of crisis to outwardly show that you care - it would go a long way to appease us if we knew that it was a very bad glitch in form rather than complete indifference because, as I'm sure the sagely Mr Black would say, "wanting to improve is the first step to improving."* *If he hasn't said that then I'm applying copyright on it and selling it back to the club.
Just SHUT THE f** UP why don't you? To save time, other players that Redknapp might have signed, if it had crossed his mind and they had shown any interest, include: Pele Beckenbauer Messi Maradona Mark Dennis Cruyff Instead he chose to re-sign Crouch, Defoe, Krancjar a few dozen times. He's spotted Wayne Rooney as a 4 year old, but was mislead by scouts who said he couldn't sign him because he wasn't human, and the FA were strict about that kind of thing.
