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I think if it had just been relegation to the championship then that would have been okay. But two relegations, administration, fans turning on each other, such as at the Doncaster game a few years back and all the board room nonsense, rubbish football, seeing the likes of Bale & Walcott not only sold off but us being mugged off too stay out of admin, i even found celebrating a last day win to stay in the championship like we had won the league embarassing. Give me staying up Harrys way anyday. Cant but regularly think what if everytime i see Bale, Walcott, Crouch etc play.

the 2-2 draw at home to Middlesborough when 2-0 up injury time, last minute equlisers at home to Everton and away to Arsenal! What would you rather have had, him keeping us up his way, or relegated and all that followed Ruperts way?

The figures came from this article. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/3...rd-in-football You could argue that about any manager re signing on fees wages etc. unless i am mistaken dont the board sign off transfers and agree contracts with the manager simply identifying players they wish to sign and letting the chairman do the rest? Any manager will tell you they need new players and give them money they will spend it, they wouldn't be doing their job probably if they weren't constantly looking to improve their squad. But based on those figures in that article Redknapp has produced a net profit on his overall transfers in his management career, which disproves the myth that he bankrupts clubs. Just talking about Saints, adminstration was nothing to do with him, and as far as i am aware West Ham, Pompeys and Bournemouths financial problems were nothing to do with him either, as i say, he doesn't sign the cheques now does he. And as for your comment about him needing plenty of rescources, you could say that about any manager, give them money they will spend it. BUt look at some of his transfers, £5m for Diarra, a pitance by PL standards, sold for £18m, Sully Muntari, signed for £7m, sold for more than double, neither of which costing heaven and earth by PL standards. As well as already noted his ability to improve players he has, only a fool would say he cant spot a decent player and cant bring out the best in those that he has.

But he had the tactical nouse to beat Man U at Old Trafford on the way to winning the FA Cup, the reigning European Champions and too come back from 0-2 to win at Highbury yesterday.

Exactly Jamie, didn't Pompey win away at Man Utd en route to their FA cup win? Redknapp must be better than Fergie in that case too.

Two promotions, an FA Cup win, Two finals and currently manager of a champions league side who have just beaten the holders, not bad for a guy who cant coach with no tactical nouse.

But that is simpy not true, many players are better players under him, including Bale, who you used as an example against him. He has got the best out of olders players as as per my comments above look at his transfer record over his 26 years as a boss you find that he has spent £208.23 million and recouped £230.37 million A quick comparison with Rafael Benitez has the Liverpool manager spending £210 million since 2004 and only accruing £125 million in the same period. While in almost 24 years at Old Trafford, Alex Ferguson has spent £392.44 million on 89 players and made some £244 million by selling 216 players in that same time. You dont hear people blamning Man Utd debt of Alex Fergusson now do you.

Even so he has become that player under Redknapp, playing a position Redknapp moved him too. He has arguably got more out of him than Arsene Wenger has out of Walcott, and Wenger is supposedly a master at developing young players.

Surely this disproves your arguement, he has become that player under Redknapp, when he couldn't get a look in under Ramos. It was Redknapp who moved him to Left Midfield. Is it just a case of "give a Chimpanzee enough typewriters" that Gomes is now a competnent PL goalkeeper when he was a poor mans Massimo Taibi under RAmos. What about Defoe producing the best form of his career last season, again, just luck? Huddlestone & DAwson now England players, getting the best out of Pakleychenko who was s**** under Ramos. What about getting the best out of fading forces like Merson, Sheringham, Berger, Stone, when down the road? Some people need to take their red and white, i hate all thing Redknapp tinted galsses off FFS.

err, isn't that what a manager is meant to do? As for your comments about bleeding clubs dry, see the stats above, that is simply not true.

he'll have his hands full with Dickson and Lallana. We are on a great run at home and they seem to be in a little dip at the moment, i fancy us to win 2-1.

a chancer who has been succesful at every club he has been at bar One, The one being a club where he wasn't allowed to manage his way. Conicidence? Surely not.

You say it like being in the champions league is a bad thing. Leeds were incredibly badly run, gambling fortune they didn't have. Spurs by comparison have not spent that muchOr maybe because he really believes as do i, with a couple more players, ie a decent centre half and a top class striker they can win the league this or next season. the Premier league may be weaker than it has been since the mid ninties but you can only beat what is in front of you. It is a massive achievement to take a club from bottom of the Premier League to the Champions league in less than two season. Martin O'Neill couldn't do it in 4 years at Villa. I would also guess that Spurs will make more from the Champions league this season, should they get to the knock out stages, than they have spent in transfer fees under HR this season.

this thread sums uo the football knowledge of the majority of this board. Turning their nose up at Robert Pires FFS!

Into the champions league it would seem.......

taking Spurs from bottom to the champions league in less than two seasons??? I am no bigger fan of him than anyone, i dont like the bloke, but the myth that he spends fortunes and leaves clubs skint is nonsense and not backed up by facts. These stats make interesting reading and disprove the myth. People just need to get over it and accept that he is bloody good manager who failed here because of Lowe.... "Between 1994 and 2001 at West Ham, he signed 58 players for the Hammers, spending £52.09 million, bringing £77.01 million into the club." "In just two years at Fratton Park, 'Arry signed 41 players for £7.65 million and sold 41 players for £5.4 million." (first spell in charge) At Saints - "In just one season at the club he signed eight players for £2.57 million, but sold 18 players for £16 million as he began a clear out at the club." Second stint at Pompey -"It is worth noting that although Redknapp's time in charge of Portsmouth ended in a deficit of some £40 million, the club has since gone on to sell many of the players he signed while he was there, giving the club a staggering £103,940,000 million in sales in just three years. A massive profit of around £30 million for the struggling club." "look at his transfer record over his 26 years as a boss you find that he has spent £208.23 million and recouped £230.37 million A quick comparison with Rafael Benitez has the Liverpool manager spending £210 million since 2004 and only accruing £125 million in the same period. While in almost 24 years at Old Trafford, Alex Ferguson has spent £392.44 million on 89 players and made some £244 million by selling 216 players in that same time" Taken from this article http://bleacherreport.com/articles/368365-harry-redknapp-transfer-history-1984-to-2010-best-record-in-football

Lets bloody well hope not! Not saying MS is a bad player, he is a very good player, but as a pair in central midfield Chaplow and Hammond looked much better. Both holding and breaking forward and seemed to have a good understanding. Do you think MS would have gone down the right wing like Hammond did and put in that cross or would have been on the edge of the six yard box to stick it in the net? I cant ever remember him doing anything like that. I suppose its that case of the best players dont always make the best teams. And the other thing is MS is still only 21 i think, very rare for a CM player to be at his best at such a young age.

he did, played really well today. DIdn't really get any chances to score though.

nice ground though, they will fill it. Brighton could potentially be a big club. Similar sized city to Southampton with a huge catchment area. I think they'll get crowds bigger than Pompeys, now that would be funny, the third biggest South coast club.

so why is that at every game since Pompeys promotion and the first games against them in 2003 there was hardly any trouble at SMS, certainly nothing like the scenes outside SMS at the last one, and the Pompey fans have been kept in. Yet the one game they let them out at the same time there is? This cant just be coincidence. At none of these other games were there tales of lone Portsmouth fans being picked off as they went to their cars, large groups of saints fans lurking in alley ways looking for Pompey fans too attack or Saints fans rioting with the police.

I didn't got last week mate so cant comment on his performance. He's not been as bad as most make out on here, okay, not been as good as last season but then none of them have. Morgan is undoubtedly a better technical player than both Caplow and Hammond and probably a classic for one of those that would be better off playing at a higher level, but not cut out for league one. As a pair Chaplow and Hammond were much better, taking it in turns to hold or break and both full of running, breaking their play up well.

I thought he was MOM today although Caplow also deserved it. Those two in midfield together are so much better than MS. Football wise MS is probably a better player but with Hammond and Chaplow there is so much drive and energy. Breaking play up and giving it to players that can play, thought they were both superb today. ON another note, Holmes looked useful when he came on, maybe Pucheon is not the massive loss many predicted.

can someone transcribe or give us the jist of it. For those too poor or tight to join saints player.

I agree, Steve Williams was my favourite player as a kid, a brilliant midfielder and like you say, left us to play for his favourite club. How anyone can "hate" a player that broke into the team at 17 years old and gave us 7 or 8 good years and has his best period as a player with us is beyond me.