This is where I am. I wouldn't rush to change Harry, but the spotlight's on him and this pre-season is going to be fascinating.
I am in the keep Harry camp...Personally I would not be impressed to see us start ditching managers after short stints again. We have at times looked a good side under Redknapp, whilst at others we have looked like a League One (Two!?) side...lack of confidence and inconsistent...this hardly seems surprising to me given our position when he took over. I think the damage was already done before he arrived and the issues sit largely with this group of players (maybe not all of them). Strange to read the suggestions that he has not kept up with the times and the game is played differently now...was only a year ago he was doing rather well at Spuds with a 4th place finish and some attractive attacking football...not sure how he has now lost touch with the tactics of the game. I would like to see us give him the opportunity to turn it around with a transfer window and pre-season under his belt.
Working in North London, all be it Arsenal territory, a number of colleagues support Tottenham and their opinion is that at Spurs he was tactically inept. However, they think he can get us promoted. That said they also thought he would keep us up.
I liked harry as our manager but he did have his faults. Spurs were a poor team when he took over but we had some great players to work with who were not at the end of their careers, crocked or mercenaries. This season we lost modric and van der vaart...we sold some squad players and bought in dempsey, holtby, vertongen and lloris...and we have had an horrendous injury record...kaboul all season, parker until jan, sandro since jan, dembele has missed 10 matches...all key players but we have got the same number of points this season as we did last season so I think as good as he was for ud he has been over hyped...people slate avb but he could get more points with a weaker team. I hope you make a quick return.
Changing Harry now would do more damage than good. We need some form of stability. Any! Just give him a realistic budget and keep to it. I turned to my mate after about 40 minutes and said that I can see next season being a complete disaster. The last few matches we've played like a team bottom of the Championship let alone Premiership. Harry has a massive job to do in getting everyone back to winning ways, the rot looks like it has firmly set in. Now I'm off to commit suicide by Big Mac
Carlos get down the pub next season and I will buy you a snowball. I know we are stuck with Harold and agree we should win a few matches but you have to ask yourself how did the rot set in? Harold has he got tanalised legs ?
I'm not playing Harold. Just looks like we are stuck in a rut and over the summer everyone's gona have to have to have a complete mood swing, to positivity. All the teams in the Champ will be targeting us as a "lets beat them game". Harold's gona have to do some out of the box thinking to get everyone back to positivity. Maybe he could turn the twitch into a sort of body-popping dance routine? All I'm saying is, I think the task is more monumental than it seems on paper. If only I could take the squad on a cocaine and prostitute binge in Amsterdam, that would cheer them all up!
