Mr Redknapp

I, for one, will be welcoming Harry Redknapp back to his spiritual home today at Fratton Park. As a manager, he was our most successful for many a year, he is one of the best, he gave us the F.A. Cup and top ten finishes in the league. But he mostly achieved this with MONEY. I don't care how good a manager you are, you can only be as successful as the money will allow you to be. There is a limit to every team, as with Pompey we punched well above our weight, and it is going to take some time to recover from this - but we will.

Back to Mr Redknapp. When he was Director of Football and was asked to take over as manager, he refused until the club was safe in the league,and then the club sold Peter Crouch and gained the money to build a side to win the old First Division (at this time many clubs were left short when ITV Sport went bust). So Pompey were ahead of most of the other teams in the league with money to spend on players.
It seems to me that when Harry left the first time, he was told that he had to manage with a reduced budget, so he said I need a rest and NO I "am not going down the road". Well he did take them down!!

I believe he came back when he was promised money, and all of a sudden new money came in to buy players to keep us up - lots of money!
After the F.A. Cup win and good league finishes with players of world class quality, the money stopped and Mr Redknapp was off like a shot.
The thing that gets my goat with Mr Redknapp is the way he uses the press " I HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG" and "THIS CLUB WERE AT THE BOTTOM OF DIVISION ONE WHEN I TOOK OVER" "People said 'I hope you get cancer', 'I hope you turn your car over and kill your wife' - he is only making things worse by saying this he is responding to the ignorant and it does not help with his return to his spiritual home - sometimes he needs to keep his mouth shut for once.

It seems to me the man can't operate without large resources Don't get me wrong - he is a good manager - a very good one indeed, but what do Bournemouth, West Ham United and Portsmouth have in common? Answer: they all ran into money problems post Mr Redknapp.
He is not to fully blame though, the owner and the CEO did not keep control of the budget, but it was their fear of Mr Redknapp walking out of the club, that they gave him all the money he wanted - I fear that is true.

So do I hate Redknapp? No. I would have a drink with him any day (as long as he is buying)! The real problem with football today is MONEY, owners who get their club into debt, managers who demand money for players or they are off, and the real problem with modern football "PLAYERS AND THEIR WAGES". The bubble is bursting!