Harry Redknapp | The Culture of Sacking Managers | Oxford Union

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About Harry Redknapp: Having spent over 30 years as manager in the Premier League for teams including Bournemouth, Portsmouth and Southampton, it is fair to say that Redknapp is something of a footballing legend.His career began as a player for West Ham United, where he made over 140 appearances, but heis perhaps best known and admired for guiding Tottenham Hotspur to the last 16 of the UEFA Champions League following the 2009-2010 season.
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[@RemmySkye]

It does my heart alot of good to know the Prince Harry was named after this fine gentleman

[@joer.g8568]

Spoke about Jose always having the best players. But I think that underplays what he achieved with Porto

[@d1want34]

He's been talking about Jose and he was right, he's a Man Utd manager now

[@liamio2802]

And how'd that work out?

[@danielcowan8673]

@@liamio2802 better than at Spurs, haha. Redknapp would get better results than Jose at Spurs at the moment.

[@Lahmekful]

Totally agree you get more out of people by telling them they are good than otherwise, the power of words is no wonder to some.

[@rafflesxyz4800]

You are really good. Now kindly furnish me with your Bank name and address, account number and sort code.

You see your Youth now, many look him as Sir. Wanne be like him. You see the results of it.

[@Testinator1234]

Disagree with Harry. It's not just about the best players, or it being reliance on the players, which is an easy way to absolve blame. Alot of the time it's about managers not getting the best out of the players they do have. Sometimes it can be simply things like stubbornly refusing to play someone (or play them in their best position) who is clearly beneficial to the team because the manager doesn't trust them, or refusing to play a system that gets the best out of the team. Sometimes managers let their egos get the best of them and start tinkering like madmen or refuse to do the obvious things that work because they want to look like geniuses. Some managers, and this is especially a problem with British managers culturally, are also unable to actually coach a philosophy into their teams, they think it's all about buying players, making them run alot in training, and just throwing them on the pitch relying purely on player ability, instead of really working towards a plan and a system/style of play that requires in depth teaching and drilling players. Managers like Guardiola, Klopp, Wenger, etc, will instill a style of play into their players that reflects their philosophy and is vastly different to what others do. Others who are tactical masters like Mourinho and Benitez will drill their players extremely well to be organised and solid. Whereas managers like Allardyce or Pardew or Bruce will just shout at their players to lump it into the box. There's a big difference. Occasionally you can see that big difference a good manager makes vs a bad manager with the exact same group of players when there's a managerial change.

[@peterwhite3290]

Rhoombrp complete nonsense mate. Allardyce is someone who is extremely tactically minded and drills his players well. You'll find that the technique you're deriding went out of top flight football long ago.

[@zacsayer1818]

Rhoombrp nonsense, your theories are out of date. In any case Alladyce was one of the first managers to take stat analysis (game index data for example) to the nth/PhD level. Besides, Harry did say it had a lot (notice how I spelt “a lot”) to do with how you treat players - which in turn partly translates to playing the players in the their best positions and with the best system to get the very best from them.

[@sweetpotat5]

Your opinion means loads; I'm sure based off of your experience in the world of top flight football.

"goodbye England rose" wellcome "sorry seems to be the hardest word"

He can those acts be forgiven?

Sir, You mean cultur of betrayal injustices murderuos management?

He use the name the money Fame, i want his name written in hall of Fame. So he be inter the Gate first. This time he wrong.

[@LPOLE22]

So its just about the players form then. No need for a manager based on Harry's logic.

I dare not even thing of orther kind of immorality he systematicly may hidden.

[@Mrstreet1999]

track eren the fuck are you on kid?

He should guide the youth to love the Queen, but instead he filled them up with Lies immorality forsaking etc, still he think im kidding.