Premier League - Paper round: Harry's Olympic gig

Eurosport - Sun, 13 Sep 14:57:00 2009

Harry Redknapp is in pole position to manage the Great Britain football team at the 2012 Olympics in London.

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The Tottenham boss has emerged as the front-runner as, under an FA agreement with the other home nations, the Scotsman Alex Ferguson is ineligible. Fulham's Roy Hodgson has also been tipped for the job. (Sunday Mirror)

Ferguson wants to boost Manchester United's strike force with the £20 million acquisition of Sevilla's Brazilian striker Luis Fabiano. (The People)

Alternatively, he is going to spend a massive £25m on Valencia and Spain midfielder David Silva. (News of the World)

Alternatively, he is going to sign West Ham's Robert Green as a long-term successor to Edwin van der Sar in goal. (Sunday Express)

Juventus have been linked with Arsenal right-back Emmanuel Eboue, with the Ivorian having nearly joined Fiorentina in the summer. (Daily Star Sunday)

Arsenal defender William Gallas is set to be offered a new contract just a year after being stripped of the captaincy. (News of the World)

Newcastle United and Middlesbrough both want Everton striker James Vaughan on loan for the rest of the season. (Daily Star Sunday)

Bolo Zenden is expected in England this week for talks over a move to Hull City. Blackburn are also thought to want the Dutchman. (Daily Star Sunday)

Kevin Keegan will this week battle it out with Mike Ashley over his £10 million compensation claim from Newcastle. (News of the World)

Liverpool are expected to announce a four-year, £80m shirt sponsorship deal with Standard Chartered bank, three times the amount they currently receive from Carlsberg. (Observer)

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  1. Harry stick to giving The Mighty Spurs the best season­ for years,with new signing Kranjcar it can only mean­ top 6 status, Good luck

    From DIAMOND GEEZER, on Wed 16 Sep 9:30PM

  2. Why so serious, Martin? There must be something to that­ missus at the X-mas party poke. Yes, we all saw the­ United match. Your point? ...Arsenal were outplayed by­ City...Liverpool beaten by Villa & Spurs...and­ United fell to Burnley... Are we to believe that any­ of these three are no longer top 4 teams because they­ lost ONE game? Spurs may not breakthrough this season,­ but they are certainly challengers - there is no­ denying it! Some, if not ALL, of the top clubs will­ have to overcome adversity at some point this season in­ order to retain their position. Injuries are­ unpredictable. Don't forget that the Spurs were­ without Modric and the defense is all nicked up. I­ would have like to have seen Pavlyuchenko come on­ rather than Krancjar. How bout it 'Arry?!

    From WilsonJet, on Mon 14 Sep 10:15PM
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    Ashley B - Did you see the Man U v Spurs game!? Still­ think Tottenham is a top 4 team? Yes Redknapp is a GOOD­ manager, but would a top manager need to buy so many­ players that are not worth the money the clubs have to­ pay. As for taking a bottom club up the league - that­ is something a lot of managers could do with a club as­ big as Tottenham. All I am saying is just because he­ loves to talk to the press, and cant stop spending over­ the top for too many players is not a sign that he is a­ world class manager - top 10 or 15 maybe

    From Martin, on Mon 14 Sep 10:14AM

  4. Martin - do you think it has something to do with him­ sitting in 4th place with a team that was sitting at­ the bottom of the league last season? Or taking the­ relatively small club to the FA Cup final? Or that he­ boned your misses at the office xmas party? Ahh yeah,­ that's why you hate him, sorry to bring that up­ again.

    From Ashley B, on Mon 14 Sep 8:00AM

  5. why is SAF ineligible, it the GB team and SAF in­ scottish?

    From Omar F, on Mon 14 Sep 4:31AM

  6. Hodgson has international experience, give it to him.

    From optimus prime, on Sun 13 Sep 11:37PM
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    Why do people think Redknapp is so good? He took­ Southampton down, He bought Pompey the cup - after a­ very, very lucky run - and has spent a fortune on so­ many players that are never worth the money - just­ because it is easy to cover up his bad signings. Just­ look at all the money he has spent in the past on­ players that never got above average - but got world­ class money. Yes the press love " Look AT ME -I am­ in the news again Redknapp" but he took on a big­ club with good players and will not stop spending. Tell­ him he can only have half the players and I would bet­ he would not win half the games a top manager would win­ with the same restrictions. My 7 year old sister could­ find eleven good players if she could buy enough.

    From Martin, on Sun 13 Sep 11:10PM

  8. It's great Harry is lined up with this sort of job­ BUT IMHO I think he should see out his career at Spurs.­ We may have a chance of winning the league if we keep­ going!! Yes I know that's a tall order but­ we're in the top flight and in dbl figures (despite­ yesterdays shameful loss) whilst the other teams have­ greater depth and more money.. Stay Arry stay!

    From lee, on Sun 13 Sep 7:19PM

  9. probably the best english manager around go harry go­ get the job done

    From Me, on Sun 13 Sep 4:13PM

  10. Dear Francis, I give a @#$%. Ta.

    Just out of­ curiousity; what was the FA agreement with the home­ nations that would make certain nominees for manager­ inelligable? I never picked up on the fact there were­ any any hard-driven qualification rules for coach.

    From mark.mckendrick, on Sun 13 Sep 2:47PM

  11. Dear Francis, I give a f***.

    Just out of curiousity;­ what was the FA agreement with the home nations that­ would make certain nominees for manager inelligable? ­ I never picked up on the fact there were any any­ hard-driven qualification rules for coach.

    From mark.mckendrick, on Sun 13 Sep 2:45PM
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    Good God! Can we not do better then appoint a football­ mercenery to this key post it as to be a wind up.

    From not that kind of blue, on Sun 13 Sep 12:23PM
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    who gives a @#$%

    From Francis, on Sun 13 Sep 12:21PM

  14. Harry has never hid this ambition, power to him !­ Hopefully by then we'll have won a trophy or two,­ maybe three !! :-))

    From ispurs, on Sun 13 Sep 12:18PM
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