http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...t-night-football-life--Ruud-Gullit-doing.html Claims watching us win the Champions League was the worst moment of his football life. Never mind taking Pompey down and having them go into administration, eh? Sums him and his boy up to a tee, rather than be happy for their nephew/cousin they just think about themselves. Genuinely don't get why the media lap Redknapp up, he's an odious character and doesn't really have an impressive managerial record. What got me though was Ruud Gullit and his passion for Chelsea. It's synonymous with almost all of that mid/late 90s side that still talk about Chelsea glowingly. I remember seeing JFH walking around before a home game with West Ham a few years back. Even people that have been sacked by the club I.e Gullit, RDM, Vialli, Grant, Ranieri and others that have been cast aside seem to have a great affinity for the club and I'm not sure there are (m)any other clubs out there that have the same rapport with ex-players/managers. Even now we have Tore Andre Flo, Jon Harley and Jody Morris (the latter being boyhood fans of the club as well as ex-players) working as coaches within the club There's always a lot of negativity surrounding this club in the media and bitter claims of being soulless but we are anything but.
Yep we were so soulless when we had the biggest away following in the country bar United and Liverpool when we were in Div 2
Redknapp never took Portsmouth down. He did win them the FA Cup, however. Redknapp never took them into administration. Leaving aside the fact that his second stint at Portsmouth never had him in control of finances, he made big profits in player sales, if anything he helped them stay afloat as long as they did. The rest of the biased drivel isn't technically inaccurate though so well done
Utter delusion if you think Redknapp helped Portsmouth in any way. Not surprised Levy didn't trust him with finances.
05/06 Spent 14M Sold 8M 06/07 Spent 8m Sold 1M 07/08 Spent 51M Sold 20M 08/09 Spent 25M Sold 48M Spent 98M Sold 77M Yep, he made them a bundle
We haven't even got started with the extortionate wage bill he took on which crippled the club. The people that helped Portsmouth were the likes of Dave Kitson and Tal Ban Haim who took wage cuts to help the club out.
Me neither, Levy's a trained accountant with a highly qualified and experienced finance team, he'd have to be sectioned if he decided to hand financial control of the club to any manager, let alone Redknapp. Do you honestly think managers take a look over the books to see if they can afford players before they sign them? If not, how could it be his fault?
Or the brown paper bags. It's funny how Spuds defend him and yet Pompey fans despise him for what he did to them. I think they know best about their club, don't you YY?
They did make big profits in player sales. Diarra, Crouch, Defoe, Johnson and Distin for starters. If I was talking about net spends then I'd have said so, although I'll think you'll find that a £5mill a year net spend is pretty impressive considering he took a relegation threatened side to a mid table position and won them the FA Cup. Ben Haim took a wage cut?! If he did it was very late on, it seems like barely a year ago he was claiming that he couldn't take a cut because he has an expensive lifestyle.
There's a phrase about those in glasshouses not throwing stones. How many Chelsea managers have a net spend of less than £5m pa And you do realise that net spend and profit are entirely unrelated
He. Made. Big. Profits. In. Player. Sales. If you sign Distin on a free and sell him for £5mill, you've made a profit on a player sale. If you sign Diarra for £5mill each and sell him for £18mill, you've made a profit on a player sale. If you sign Johnson for £4mill and sell him £18mill, you've made profit on a player sale. He. Made. Big. Profits. In. Player. Sales. When a player was sold, he'd get a percentage of the profit if it was a player he signed. He. Made. Big. Profits. In. Player. Sales.
What. Difference. Does. That. Make. He made profits on certain players, but overall made a loss. You think the administrators gave a crap about the difference in Distins purchase price and how much he was sold for? They owed money and couldnt pay it because of the amount of money they spent on players signing fees and wages...end of. And glasshouses? Net spend? Last time I checked, the guy who owned our club has almost limitless money, so it doesnt really matter how much of a loss a Chelsea manager makes does it? When, like Portsmouth, you dont have a benefector with a bottomless cash pit, then spending like an idiot is...well....idiotic.
He gave these 'cheap' signings outrageous wages which then helped cripple the club. Ask the Pompey fans, they know all about 'Arry. They guys a complete gobshite.
In any job, if the chairman gives you a budget, do you turn around and say "what if you can't afford it?" Or do you try and be as successful as possible within that budget?
Of course, the chairman should shoulder most of the blame, he let Harry spend that cash. It was his job to reel him in, and he obviously didnt do a good enough job
