| Harry Redknapp quote 10:27 - Apr 21 with 3584 views | King_of_Portman_Rd |
"I think if we can stay up this year, the potential is here to build a team that next year would be looking at the play-offs,"
"It's not that difficult to put together a good team in the Championship, if you know what you're doing. You can go out and pick up players, you haven't got to spend fortunes."
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| Harry Redknapp quote on 10:29 - Apr 21 with 2785 views | Pendejo |
Touting for business, maybe his dog needs additional pension funds. |  |
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| Harry Redknapp quote on 10:30 - Apr 21 with 2785 views | Herbivore |
He's massively out of touch. |  |
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| Harry Redknapp quote on 10:30 - Apr 21 with 2783 views | Reuser_is_God |
Yeah I'd agree with that.
The problem now is that the quality of player available on a free transfer is not as high as it was 3/4 years ago, clubs are tying them down to get fees for them. |  |
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| He's a clueless old chancer...... on 10:31 - Apr 21 with 2777 views | Bloots |
....he's spent a fortune at every club he's been at.
Nearly putting a number of them out of business in the process. |  |
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| Harry Redknapp quote on 10:32 - Apr 21 with 2769 views | manchego |
| Harry Redknapp quote on 10:30 - Apr 21 by Herbivore |
He's massively out of touch. |
If you could get promotion on the cheap, he wouldn't know how to do it. I'd love to see him go down with Brum (although I don't have a problem with them in fact) |  | | |
| Harry Redknapp quote on 10:34 - Apr 21 with 2755 views | No9 |
"It's not that difficult to put together a good team in the Championship, if you know what you're doing."
As Norwich Managers have shown over the last decade |  | | |
| Harry Redknapp quote on 10:35 - Apr 21 with 2756 views | Reuser_is_God |
| Harry Redknapp quote on 10:30 - Apr 21 by Herbivore |
He's massively out of touch. |
Really?
He's just described exactly what MM was, rightly, lauded for.
People hate Redknapp & just react in the same way, regardless of what he says. | |
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| Harry Redknapp quote on 10:35 - Apr 21 with 2749 views | MJallday |
i heard he's getting 2 million for keeping them up.
thats 2.8 million after tax. |  |
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| Harry Redknapp quote on 10:36 - Apr 21 with 2741 views | Dolly2.0 |
It's reminiscent of Roy Keane. |  |
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| Harry Redknapp quote on 10:38 - Apr 21 with 2732 views | Reuser_is_God |
| Harry Redknapp quote on 10:36 - Apr 21 by Dolly2.0 |
It's reminiscent of Roy Keane. |
The key difference being that Redknapp would actually build a half decent side. | |
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| Harry Redknapp quote on 10:40 - Apr 21 with 2713 views | Herbivore |
| Harry Redknapp quote on 10:35 - Apr 21 by Reuser_is_God |
Really?
He's just described exactly what MM was, rightly, lauded for.
People hate Redknapp & just react in the same way, regardless of what he says. |
Mick got us into the play offs once and that's more or less the only time a side has made the play offs without spending money on fees in the past 5 years. It's very difficult to pick players up for nothing and build a competitive side at this level, that's why the league table and spending league table tend to have a correlation most years. | |
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| Harry Redknapp quote on 10:43 - Apr 21 with 2693 views | Reuser_is_God |
| Harry Redknapp quote on 10:40 - Apr 21 by Herbivore |
Mick got us into the play offs once and that's more or less the only time a side has made the play offs without spending money on fees in the past 5 years. It's very difficult to pick players up for nothing and build a competitive side at this level, that's why the league table and spending league table tend to have a correlation most years. |
Yes & maybe he's citing what MM done as his reason for saying it can be done? | |
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| Harry Redknapp quote on 10:47 - Apr 21 with 2673 views | Herbivore |
| Harry Redknapp quote on 10:43 - Apr 21 by Reuser_is_God |
Yes & maybe he's citing what MM done as his reason for saying it can be done? |
One side out of twenty making the play offs without spending would suggest that it's very difficult, which is the exact opposite of what he's said. I won't hold it against him though, he's just not very bright. | |
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| Harry Redknapp quote on 10:49 - Apr 21 with 2668 views | King_of_Portman_Rd |
| Harry Redknapp quote on 10:35 - Apr 21 by Reuser_is_God |
Really?
He's just described exactly what MM was, rightly, lauded for.
People hate Redknapp & just react in the same way, regardless of what he says. |
Difference is MM has some history of pulling sides together on small budgets and building sides greater than the sum of their parts.
'Arry has a history of signing 'bits of quality' which are more often loose canons and form an expensively assembled dysfunctional teams which are weaker than the sum of their parts.
Also, 'Arry isn't as well versed in Championship football as he thinks he is, he certainly doesn't have the experience of a Warnock or McCarthy. I think he's setting himself up for a fall here (and as other have said) repeating the same mistake as Roy Keane | | | |
| Not without flipping great.... on 10:57 - Apr 21 with 2640 views | Bloots |
| Harry Redknapp quote on 10:38 - Apr 21 by Reuser_is_God |
The key difference being that Redknapp would actually build a half decent side. |
...wads of cash he won't.
Even when he did sign players for free he was paying them over the odds and bunging their agents millions under the table. | |
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| Harry Redknapp quote on 11:10 - Apr 21 with 2598 views | GeoffSentence |
I think Harry has a different idea of what 'fortunes' are to the rest of us. |  |
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| Harry Redknapp quote on 12:50 - Apr 21 with 2421 views | Superfrans |
| Harry Redknapp quote on 11:10 - Apr 21 by GeoffSentence |
I think Harry has a different idea of what 'fortunes' are to the rest of us. |
This.
Clearly, if you think £20m a season isn't a fortune, it's possible to be competitive at that level of spending.
Harry also has the advantage over many other managers of knowing lots of people in the game and the kind of contacts who will loan him good young players. |  |
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| Harry Redknapp quote on 14:09 - Apr 21 with 2324 views | Johnny_Boy |
| Harry Redknapp quote on 10:49 - Apr 21 by King_of_Portman_Rd |
Difference is MM has some history of pulling sides together on small budgets and building sides greater than the sum of their parts.
'Arry has a history of signing 'bits of quality' which are more often loose canons and form an expensively assembled dysfunctional teams which are weaker than the sum of their parts.
Also, 'Arry isn't as well versed in Championship football as he thinks he is, he certainly doesn't have the experience of a Warnock or McCarthy. I think he's setting himself up for a fall here (and as other have said) repeating the same mistake as Roy Keane |
#Difference is MM has some history of pulling sides together on small budgets and building sides greater than the sum of their parts.#
The same was said about Jewell. |  | | |
| Harry Redknapp quote on 14:11 - Apr 21 with 2325 views | Steve_M |
| Harry Redknapp quote on 14:09 - Apr 21 by Johnny_Boy |
#Difference is MM has some history of pulling sides together on small budgets and building sides greater than the sum of their parts.#
The same was said about Jewell. |
No it wasn't. He got two relatively well funded sides, where fans had limited expectations, promoted and struggled badly at three clubs which had higher expectations and weren't in the best shape when he was appointed. |  |
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| Harry Redknapp quote on 03:26 - Apr 22 with 2151 views | Johnny_Boy |
| Harry Redknapp quote on 14:11 - Apr 21 by Steve_M |
No it wasn't. He got two relatively well funded sides, where fans had limited expectations, promoted and struggled badly at three clubs which had higher expectations and weren't in the best shape when he was appointed. |
Bradford weren't swimming in cash when he got them promoted. Polar opposite infact.
Revisionism in its highest form.
Wigan, if I remember correctly, opted for lower league players to get them up. | | | |
| Harry Redknapp quote on 07:49 - Apr 22 with 1995 views | Keaneish |
Given what Harry's spent at other clubs, his idea of "not spending fortunes" is very different to other clubs like us. However, in the main i agree with him. Success can be achieved without paying huge hefty transfer fees but a healthy wage bill helps. |  |
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| Harry Redknapp quote on 08:15 - Apr 22 with 1932 views | itfcbam |
First and foremost Redknapp is a fantastic salesman. Over time he has pursuaded his chairman to part with money the club in reality can't afford. He can though attract players, but at what cost to the club? He is also clever enough to know when to jump ship. Look at how Portsmouth ended up financially ruined. Yes he won the FA cup with them but left them with tremendous debt. Southampton weren't exactly left in great shape either.
He is though loved by the media and with him around things certainly won't be dull but it's a fair sized risk. | | | |
| Harry Redknapp quote on 08:21 - Apr 22 with 1925 views | Mullet |
| Harry Redknapp quote on 03:26 - Apr 22 by Johnny_Boy |
Bradford weren't swimming in cash when he got them promoted. Polar opposite infact.
Revisionism in its highest form.
Wigan, if I remember correctly, opted for lower league players to get them up. |
That's utter nonsense. He was backed massively by their chairman as he was at Wigan and pretty much every club he goes to, or doesn't take the job.
Read this.
http://www.wsc.co.uk/the-archive/32-Managers/4843-jewell-is-no-gem |  |
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| Harry Redknapp quote on 09:03 - Apr 22 with 1851 views | Dolly2.0 |
A massively one-sided, agenda-led article that brushes off any achievements, or excuses them, and only focuses on the negatives. | |
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| Harry Redknapp quote on 09:10 - Apr 22 with 1828 views | Mullet |
| Harry Redknapp quote on 09:03 - Apr 22 by Dolly2.0 |
A massively one-sided, agenda-led article that brushes off any achievements, or excuses them, and only focuses on the negatives. |
But answers the point in question and proves he was a chancer long before he came here. | |
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