'Arry the Untouchable

Edinspur

Harry's obsession with signing players he admired in his Portsmouth days is coming back to haunt him; Rio, Kranjcar, J.Cole are no longer good.

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J. Cole is at Villa.

As for the article, i think its obvious (and normal) for relegation threatened teams to not go all out in the cups because Premiership survival is simply more important than a cup run.

This isn't the first time in history a lower league side have won a cup tie...

comment by Chicken - Mr Consistent✔ (U1043)
posted 2 hours, 53 minutes ago
As for the article, i think its obvious (and normal) for relegation threatened teams to not go all out in the cups because Premiership survival is simply more important than a cup run.

This isn't the first time in history a lower league side have won a cup tie...
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'Arry...is that you???


You cannot defend him or his players. They put out a strong team and were played off the park by League One team. Yesterday I heard him blame tiredness and a lack of strikers He has a big squad he should use it vs League One opposition. He should be inspiring his players, giving youth a chance ....instead he's full of excuses, as usual. He even started the season saying he is happy with the strikers at the club, having missed out on Defoe.

£100 say he signs Scott Parker this January, probably Defoe and will have a go at getting Robbie Keane on loan too.

Devon,

I'm not defending anyone - nor am i going OTT because a team beat a side in a higher division in a cup game. Its nothing new for me - i've seen it happen a few times before.

comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 1 day, 2 hours ago
comment by Chicken - Mr Consistent✔ (U1043)
posted 2 hours, 53 minutes ago
As for the article, i think its obvious (and normal) for relegation threatened teams to not go all out in the cups because Premiership survival is simply more important than a cup run.

This isn't the first time in history a lower league side have won a cup tie...
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'Arry...is that you???


You cannot defend him or his players. They put out a strong team and were played off the park by League One team. Yesterday I heard him blame tiredness and a lack of strikersHe has a big squad he should use it vs League One opposition. He should be inspiring his players, giving youth a chance ....instead he's full of excuses, as usual. He even started the season saying he is happy with the strikers at the club, having missed out on Defoe.

£100 say he signs Scott Parker this January, probably Defoe and will have a go at getting Robbie Keane on loan too
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Rent-a-quote Redknapp with some bullshīt excuses as usual and his loyal lapdog Chicken runs to his rescue, get off his dīck ffs

Ledley's,

You can give it as much as you like but we all know it is to disguise the fact you are just a short man, with a small willy, with a distinct lack of knowledge and zero football know-how.

As i said above, i'm not defending anyone. It's just not a big deal to me that a league side has beaten a team from a higher league in a cup game. In fact, I challenge you to find one single season where there has not been one single upset in the FA Cup. Go on Charlie big balls...off you go.

comment by Chicken - Mr Consistent✔ (U1043)
posted 2 days ago
Edinspur

Harry's obsession with signing players he admired in his Portsmouth days is coming back to haunt him; Rio, Kranjcar, J.Cole are no longer good.

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J. Cole is at Villa.

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Irrelevant, he attempted to sign him on multiple occasions when the player is no longer of PL quality. My point is that he needs to stop signing/attempting to sign players who are now poor.

Edin,

Its funny, i've been in a debate with Don on another article about the January TW. My claim is that its the most difficult TW to get decent players in - yet Don's argument was that we signed Defoe, Keane, Palacios (and he quoted some other players too) in historic TWs - who were all signed by Harry. Yet now i have you telling me how poor Harry is in the TW. I'm finding it hard to keep up.

Harry has signed some quality over the years (as well as duffers) which is no different any other managers. Was it you i was debating with a few weeks back about Fergie? Well, even he has signed some real shockers and he was at one of the world's most powerful clubs. I think people need to stop laying awake at night worrying about Harry and realise that manager's generally have ups and downs.

I am saying at QPR Harry has been poor in the transfer window, especially considering the financial backing the club has. Not at Spurs, he was pretty good in the TW on the whole. I also agree that January signings are extremely risky.

This is an article about Harry being lucky that he hasn't been in the spotlight more for the poor job he did at QPR, nothing to do with Spurs. Probably why you are struggling to keep up.

Edin,

I’m not sure he has done such a poor job though. He took over when QPR were bottom and subsequently took them down. Not the best of starts but again, this is nothing out of the ordinary. He then brought them up at the first attempt – this may have been through the play-off backdoor but managers like Big Sam, Holloway etc have been praised for promoting a club this way and then subsequently keeping them up.

The most difficult thing for a promoted club to do is to survive in the league, and his club are currently out of the bottom 3 – so everything is going to plan I would say.

The thing is, we all know this is not just a run-of-the-mill football debate but just another desperate attempt to mock Harry. Why? I have no idea. That’s your agenda – not mine. I don’t get the obsession with it all to be honest.

As I say, I’m not sticking up for Harry – just as I don’t stick my neck out for any other manager who follows the pattern of relegation, promotion (via the play-offs), and trying to survive in the big bad Premiership, but I will say that Harry’s story is no different to many, many others, yet it seems you fail to keep up with anyone outside the Harry bubble. Then again, consistency seems to be forbidden on here.

The way I see it, he’s signing players he feels can improve the squad - yes he may be in the market for players he trusts rather than taking risks but that’s his method. And good luck to him I say .