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John we can opine ad-infinitum on the pros and cons of Harrys tenure. But from reading y...

John


we can opine ad-infinitum on the pros and cons
of Harrys tenure. But from reading your
earlier/current posts regarding Harry. I think we will have to agree to differ.
To me undoubtedly his biggest mistake was
thinking he had Levy over a barrel and then
conducting his contract talks in the media.
This I am convinced was the final straw, and
made his stay untenable.
But in a Nutshell if Harry had signed the
contract offered to him by Levy a couple of
months ago, he would still be Spurs manager
end of.

"To me undoubtedly his biggest mistake was thinking he had Levy over a barrel and th...

"To me undoubtedly his biggest mistake was
thinking he had Levy over a barrel and then
conducting his contract talks in the media.
This I am convinced was the final straw, and
made his stay untenable.
But in a Nutshell if Harry had signed the
contract offered to him by Levy a couple of
months ago, he would still be Spurs manager
end of. "

100% agree.

venessalee, u will have to learn that john ignores posts like these because he has no argument for it.
so he pretends it never happened.

or he will be silly & say something like doing buisness through the media is the correct way to do things.
even thou he doesnt belive that. he has to pretend to so that he can still defend harry going to the press for a longer contract.

It cannot be as simple as you describe, even Levy is not so thick as to appreciate the eff...

It cannot be as simple as you describe, even Levy is not so thick as to appreciate the effect it could have on the club, not least the fact that a number of players will probably seek a way out of the club. On reflection, and as much as I appreciate how Harry turned the fortunes around, there were a number of factors that suggested he was losing the plot. The signings of Saha and Nelson were illogical and wasteful, and his switching of tactics at a critical phase of the season was misjudged. He took his eye off the ball and we endured a period of ineffective rubbish to be quite frank, all of this going on whilst Harry had his head in the clouds absorbing the adulation of the media and selecting his first England team. There are factors that we will never be privileged to know about, it cannot be as simple or as stupid as just booting him out for the sake of it. Can it?

Without inside knowledge, it's hard to say why Levy et al (as presumably the board and...

Without inside knowledge, it's hard to say why Levy et al (as presumably the board and Lewis had input) decided 'arry had to go. People here have said why they would have sacked him.

We've seen some strange appointments and sackings across the EPL - most look odd from the outside. But 'public' appearance tends to hide any friction that may be happening behind the scenes.

The motive will probably never be known, until biographies / autobiographies surface.

I just hope the board's next appointment keeps up the momentum that we appear to have gained over the past few seasons. It's easy to make a rick as we've seen with AVB (and a whole raft of managers) at the Chavs, and lately with 'kin Kenny at Pool (although I don't like Dalglish, I wasn't sure that his squad was good enough to do much better than they did anyway - they played very well at times, and at times looked appalling). Then a manager like Pardew, looks initially an odd / unpopular appointment at Newcastle and turns out to be a gem

Whoever Spurs do appoint though, the man has got to be given time to show what he can do, so you're looking two or three seasons away to be able to really judge anyway.

Levy got to the point where he couldn't handle baggage anymore, even though it was onl...

Levy got to the point where he couldn't handle baggage anymore, even though it was only hand luggage. He had his fingers crossed on both hands and the cheeks of his arse slammed together hoping he'd get the England job.
H---Give Glen Hoddle the job.