Said it before, will say it again, get Harry Redknapp.

[WNRH]

dont forget he took a bottom 3 club to a top 4 club in one and a half seasons

Who was that? Wolves? Reading? Watford?

Oh no Spurs who finished 5th the season before.

Behave!

 

[ultimateharold]

dont forget he took a bottom 3 club to a top 4 club in one and a half seasons

Spurs? Just because they had a dodgy period, were never bottom 3 material long term.

FFS.

 

[bumbleblue]

FFS... calm down dear. getting rid of yet another manager? yes that has done wonders for us in the past...it will all come together soon that is why every fucker is shitting bricks cause once it does we will be top of the pile for ages . that is why every malign evil anti city force is out to destabilise and fuck us up now. If it doesn't work they will be fucked and they know this.

 

[oakiecokie]

Despite the fact that he's a great manager, and that we have a botomless pot of cash, he'd leave this club in financial ruin.

-- November 2nd, 2010, 11:54 pm --

Despite the fact that he's a great manager, and that we have a botomless pot of cash, he'd leave this club in financial ruin.

Knowing Harry and cash, he could be the white version of "Broosters Millions" !!

 

[Arry is Bent]

Crouch and Defoe both piss all over Ade in terms of premiership goals over the years, and both are far superior forwards. Obviously none of them are on Tevez' level though.

Adebayor has more Premier League goals than Crouch, from about 70 fewer games, and a better goals per games record than Defoe too.

Ade has 2 more goals than Crouch, having played as a striker in an Arsenal side that create chances for fun. Besides, it's not goals its your all round play. Are you seriously saying you would rather have Adebayor upfront than Crouch ?

 

[lee-mcfc]

The irony of your usename and this thread!!!!

lol exactly

 

[Arry is Bent]

PMSL at people claiming it was Harrys fault Pompey nearly went bust.

The mangers job isn't to control finances it is to manage the team.

He was clearly given money to spend which he spent, nothing wrong with that IMO.

He also must have been lauighing his tits off when they sold us Benjani and used the cash to buy Defoe.

Of course he probably took a few brown envolopes during his time but not to the extent it was his fault they almost went bust. That was mismangement by the chairman and people in control of finances.

 

[bluefandk]

The desperation of the Mancini outers is getting more and more pathetic by the minute.

 

[ultimateharold]

June 21 2001: Having left West Ham in April after a row with chairman Terry Brown, Redknapp becomes director of football at Fratton Park. According to a recent interview, he claims to have been offered 10 per cent of all net profits made from player sales.

July 7 2001: Portsmouth sign Peter Crouch from QPR for £1.5million. It is one of 16 deals Redknapp does as director of football.

March 25th 2002: Having denied his interest in replacing Portsmouth manager Graham Rix just weeks earlier, Redknapp is named full-time Pompey boss on a reported salary of £1.5million per year. His percentage of net profits made from player sales drops to five per cent.

March 27th 2002: Redknapp sells Crouch to Aston Villa for £5million. The manager is paid a 5% commission of net profit on the deal but insists he should get more, presumably because the bulk of the business was concluded while he was still director of football

Redknapp explained recently: "The club paid me five per cent (for Crouch) through the club. I went back to Milan because I had signed a new contract that said five per cent but I said 'No, when I signed Crouch it was 10 per cent, so I want 10 per cent' and Milan said 'Okay, Harry, I accept that.'" Mandaric later pays £100,000 into a Monaco-based bank account in Redknapp's name. It is this payout which is now under investigation by the police.

April 15th 2003: Portsmouth are promoted to the Premier League with four games remaining and go on to become Division One champions.

July 30th 2003: Redknapp fields a trialist called Andy Henry in a 5-0 pre-season romp at Kilmarnock. 'Henry' is later revealed to be Auxerre's Amdy Faye, playing under a pseudonym so rival pursuing clubs like Manchester City, Middlesbrough and Wolves are not alerted to his availability. Though this is contrary to FA rules, no action is taken.

August 5th 2003: Redknapp signs Faye for £1.5m in the 38th permanent deal he has completed since becoming manager some 16 months earlier. There have also been a raft of loan deals in and out of Fratton Park.

Harry reveals the extraordinary lengths he went to after discovering the Senegalese midfielder had done a runner from Pompey's hotel while on trial in an attempt to return to France. "I go and find him (at Heathrow). Capture him. I said 'Amdy, you've got to come with me'. He says 'where coach, why coach?' I said 'come with me'. I bundle him into the car. Back to my home in Bournemouth. Get him in the house and we've got two bulldogs. I said 'Amdy if you escape, these dogs, one of them will bite your legs, the other bites your b******s'.

November 24th 2004: After falling out with Milan Mandaric over the appointment of Velimir Zajec as director of football, Redknapp quits Portsmouth with a pay-off reportedly between £450,000 and £1million. Redknapp famously tells Pompey fans outside Fratton Park that he will not join Southampton, shouting "I will not go down the road - no chance."

November 27th 2004: Mandaric claims Portsmouth have paid £3million to agents under Redknapp's reign. In all, The chairman says: "In the past couple of years we have spent at least £3million there. We had players coming in, coming in on trial, coming and going. You don't accuse unless you have the facts. I did hear a lot of talk, but I ignored it because I took the guy as I know him.

"I wasn't fond of working with agents but I never had any thoughts to ask Harry if he had done anything wrong. I have a tendency to trust everyone but then if I find out they are not doing their jobs, I make the changes."

November 30th 2004: Redknapp and Mandaric hold a joint press conference in which the chairman insists: "Harry was never involved at any time in any transfer and contract negotiations throughout his period at the club. And at no time did I ever imply that there was any wrongdoing by Harry Redknapp in these transactions and I was simply saying that agents take so much out of the game."

Mandaric reveals that during Redknapp's time at the club the club have bought 25 players, added 16 free transfers and done three short-term loan deals, paying a total of £3.4million to 31 agents.

December 1 2004: Redknapp becomes Southampton manager but despite beating Pompey 2-1 in his first meeting with his old club - ironically thanks to a late Peter Crouch penalty - he is unable to arrest the club's slide towards relegation and returns to Portsmouth just over a year later, on December 7th 2005.

September 19th 2006: A BBC Panorama special shows film of Redknapp discussing Blackburn Rovers player Andy Todd with agent Peter Harrison. The programme implies that this constitutes 'tapping-up'. Redknapp refutes the allegations and the evidence appears to support his insistence that he was merely answering questions put to him by Harrison.

December 20th 2006: Lord Stevens publishes the results of his inquiry into so-called football corruption. There is no mention of the Todd allegations, although three Portsmouth transfers involving agent Willie McKay - two of them conducted while Redknapp was managing the club - are not 'cleared' by Stevens.

Harry's name is mentioned only in connection with a racehorse named Double Fantasy which it is claimed was given to him as a gift by agent McKay. Redknapp tells the inquiry that it was possible he did own the horse but insisted he had not made any money out of it because the horse never won a race.

November 28th 2007: Redknapp along with Milan Mandaric, Portsmouth chief executive Peter Storrie, McKay and Amdy Faye are all arrested over allegations of corruption about the transfer of Faye. He is released on bail and no charges are filed.

May 16th 2008: Portsmouth win the FA Cup, beating Cardiff City 1-0 at Wembley.

May 23rd 2008: Harry's arrest is declared unlawful by the Administrative Court of the High Courts of Justice. He and wife Sandra win £1000 in damages.

October 28th 2008: Redknapp leaves Pompey for Tottenham. Two days later he is heckled when he returns to Portsmouth to receive the Freedom of the City.

October 2nd 2009: Harry's odds on becoming the next Premier League manager to leave his job drop from 50-1 to 2-1 amid internet speculation that he is either returning to Portsmouth as part of a new consortium or about to be questioned again by police. He dismisses the allegations as "a load of rubbish". Mandaric is questioned by police as he answers bail.

October 4th 2009: Tax on payments resulting from the 2002 sale of Crouch is revealed to be the source of new inquiries into Redknapp by Her Majesty's Revenue And Customs. The manager insists he was paid the £100,000 into a Monaco account as "Milan never had a bank account in England so he said 'The only way I can do it is from my American account and I will have to open an account for you in Monaco.'" He further insists Mandaric "said the tax had been paid in America".

However, Mandaric appears to suggest the sum was not part of any bonus owed to Redknapp but was simply a payment for a business investment. And Storrie says: "Harry was paid through the company, through Portsmouth Football Club and taxed on it in the normal way. He got paid... and he had tax and National Insurance deducted by the company in the normal way."

October 5th 2009: Redknapp denies the allegations made against him, claiming he is a victim of a police witch hunt. "They won’t let it go even though I’ve got nothing to hide," he says. "And you know why? Because it’s me. It’s a matter of around £10,000 in tax they think I owe which is in dispute.”

 

[Arry is Bent]

The desperation of the Mancini outers is getting more and more pathetic by the minute.

I want Mancini to succeed more than the next man. Just think the fact the club haven't come out and publicly backed him is worrying and a bad run may be the end of him.