How you felt when our managers were sacked

[B-0-Sspurs]

I dont think he failed( although he certainly took his eye off the ball). But the club had just (rightly) supported him through the court case, and deserved the same in return.
Not joking about taking another job in pressers. Not (by his own word) looking at Brendan Rodgers and deciding that he would make him assistant in the England job. During a match.
The man who got it publicly denied any interest, and yet privately must have been discussing it with the FA. It wouldn't have been hard for Redknapp to say (in Public) "Sorry lads, the club backed me to the hilt during the recent trial, and I owe them the same. I'm not prepared to discuss another job"

I've never believed for a second he was sacked because we didnt get champions league.
Anyone that does, it's up to them.

Harry will always look after number one. He was mouthing off to the media about his uncertain future at Spurs the day levys mum had passed on. His team was always set for the here and now, no long term planning. That said under his management we played some of the best football I have ever seen at WHL.

Was glad to see the back of most, especially graham, sherwood, gross, Francis and santini.

I was gutted about Jol, under him WHL was rocking again and his dismissal was handled appallingly by the club, he deserved better.

Was also sad about Poch, from his appointment every season we seemed to be taking steps forward, then it all just fell apart following us spanking Everton at their place, his comments were bewildering and confusing especially around the champions league final. Real shame but I think the club made the right desicion

 

[Danius]

He was sacked because Levy got a hard on for the “next level” and hired AVB

Harry got himself sacked, it was not Levy's fault. If I acted at my job the same way he did the last couple of months of his appointment, I'd be fired, and I'd deserve that. I loved Harry and what he did for the club (my favorite Spurs manager in my lifetime), but when it came down to his sacking, I literally cried, but was left with no one to blame but Redknapp. It stung even more when AVB was hired, because I couldn't stand the guy.

 

[Bazali]

Harry got himself sacked, it was not Levy's fault. If I acted at my job the same way he did the last couple of months of his appointment, I'd be fired, and I'd deserve that. I loved Harry and what he did for the club (my favorite Spurs manager in my lifetime), but when it came down to his sacking, I literally cried, but was left with no one to blame but Redknapp. It stung even more when AVB was hired, because I couldn't stand the guy.

AVB was a punt from Levy who had a rough deal from the Chavs

 

[Tottenham Sean]

I remember him joking with the press during a friday presser about how he didnt have the job yet

He believed the press that the job was his.
The FA had other ideas....

 

[5purs]

They had to get rid of him.He was a crook,and could have got the club into very serious trouble.
I liked the man as a bloke and manager,but he should never be left in charge of money.

Not sure that would ever have been the case as at the time our club was floating on the stock exchange. Another first for the spurs : )

It was because of him that the club didn't collapse after what's his face ran us into the ground. Sure, his financial input wasn't to the extent of Mr amstrad but how he was ran out of the club was such a shame as we were shaping up nicely at the time.

 

[Tomo]

Overall it was always the football. I enjoyed it under Jol, Redknapp and Poch so they where the hardest to see go.

Probably happy to see AVB leave more than anyone, dirty to say but I enjoyed us under Graham more, maybe it was just being used to Redknapp by that stage. His football made my eyes bleed.

 

[DSanditon]

Sorry mate, I think you got that wrong. My opinion, I think he was sacked for not showing respect to a club that backed him through a legal case, and basically offering his services to the FA the same week. (As I recall, Capello quit the same week he was aquitted)

Did Redknapp offer his services to the FA?

As far as I recall, he didn't rule himself out and said the England job was the pinnacle of a manager's career.

And even if he did say publicly that he wanted the job, is that really so terrible?
Let's be honest, the only reason he didn't get it was because of the compensation that the FA would have had to pay is.

I thought he did a terrific job for Tottenham and was relieved when he didn't get the England job because I wanted him to stay.

Little did I know...

 

[OldBoy68]

I actually thought he wasn’t doing a bad job. From memory he came in and worked on tightening the defence and it seemed to be working.

That’s the cue for someone to post a series of thrashings during his few matches.

I think you're safe.

I just remember being when he was announced

Then being watching what seemed alot of games with only 1 goal scored in 90 mins

and then

 

[Herclueless]

Francis - Can't really remember.

Gross - Same.

Graham - Excited at the prospect of Hoddle.

Hoddle - Relieved.

Santini - Perplexed.

Jol - Disappointed but a little relieved.

Ramos - Happy

Redknapp - Delighted, purely for non footballing reasons though. Didn't like his attitude, gave off the impression that there was no point in trying to be better than we were at the time, would have been a self fulfilling prophecy. Also felt like karma for whoring himself about for the England job.

AVB - Sad as he talked a decent game buy couldn't back it up, relieved as the hammerings were becoming too frequent.

Sherwood - Delighted, fucking relieved as thought Levy might have fallen for his spiel. Funnily enough despite no fucking clue about tictacs, he did actually manage to have us beating all the 'inferior' sides, even if we had less than zero chance of getting a point against the big 4. Also stuck to his words and did play the youth. Sigurdsson and Chadli in cm though, how fucking bonkers do you have to be to try that???

Poch - Little sad, little disappointed, really angry. Angry at Poch, for letting such a good side that we had slip to what we are now, for talking such a good game and banging on about bravery, then doing absolutely fuck all to back up those words, for not winning anything with the best team I've seen us have, for making half of our fans seemingly Poch fans as opposed to Spurs fans...

We have a weird history in my time, any time we think we've found the one, they move us up a level, but then can't seem to handle it there themselves, it always turns sour in the end.

Not one mention of Santini. Callous bastards all of you.

 

[Legacy Lilywhite]

ENIC years...

GG - right decision but wrong timing just before the Arse semi.

Hoddle - I do rate him as a manager and obvs. a proper legend so it was sad.

Santini - meh he was shit.

Jol - felt really bad. The manner was disgraceful and he made us both fun to watch and good again too

Ramos - meh he was shit.

Redknapp - he needed a bit of space and time to recover from his court case, but he never deserved the sack: our football under him was sublime at times. Terrible decision.

AVB - sad but damn relieved... until we saw the replacement.

Sherwood - fucking relieved.

Poch - devastated.

Pre-ENIC, as a youngster, I found the Venables departure shocking... and Gerry F’s demise was tragic and depressing to be around.

 

[ElTel]

ENIC years...

GG - right decision but wrong timing just before the Arse semi.

Hoddle - I do rate him as a manager and obvs. a proper legend so it was sad.

Santini - meh he was shit.

Jol - felt really bad. The manner was disgraceful and he made us both fun to watch and good again too

Ramos - meh he was shit.

Redknapp - he needed a bit of space and time to recover from his court case, but he never deserved the sack: our football under him was sublime at times. Terrible decision.

AVB - sad but damn relieved... until we saw the replacement.

Sherwood - fucking relieved.

Poch - devastated.

Pre-ENIC, as a youngster, I found the Venables departure shocking... and Gerry F’s demise was tragic and depressing to be around.

All those managers went on to do very little after receiving the sack from Levy. Hard luck Poch

 

[Burko]

I walked out of that Getafe game with my nephew assuring him that Jol wasn't getting sacked and that fans were just showing him support, I couldn't believe we'd done that. That's the only time I thought it was wrong, and even then it was more that I liked the guy.

 

[JohnnyB]

Has anybody mentioned G.G ? I can' t even bear to say his name on our forum .
In the forty years of following Spurs it's the only time they really tested my patience , And In all honesty made me feel slightly ashamed to be a fan .
I understand the club and results will always come first and you do what you have to do to win , But him as our manager pained me then and still pains me now .
As far as I'm concerned it never happened , I preferred Santini , Gross or even Ramos to him . That's how much I hated it .

 

[LeeMcl]

I’ll only go back to Graham...

Graham - Annoyed. Timing and reason for the dismissal were odd. All sense back then was to give him to end of that season, especially with FA Cup semi coming up. Given his own personal struggles in that period we could have been more aware....

Hoddle - Relieved, Although I was always aware he was never backed correctly with the players he wanted after the first season, it was a horrible mess.

Jol - Accepting. It was at the end of a cycle. The sacking was coming and seemed fair enough, but was badly handled and I was angry about how it was done, lacked class.

Ramos - Annoyed. Simply not backed correctly. Laughable that they sold Keane and Berbatov and we had Campbell in on loan as compensation. All on ENIC this one. Disgusts me all these years later.

Redknapp - Sad. everyone should have been more grown up. Seemed like a falling out which was only of personal worth to Levy, felt he was overall a good manager and worried we would struggle with whomever came next and low and behold.....

AVB - relieved again. However, he was clearly not correctly backed by ENIC and team style was affected by his inability to get a style into play that suited what players he had. A bit of a situation that should never have really happened. He was dead in the water as soon as the Mortinho transfer never happened.

Dim Tim - a despicable situation. Not a popular man, but had the right intentions and wanted the best for the club. A shame really as I think he knew more about the club and youth set up than anyone whom has followed and he got that AVB team to at least improve, no easy task. I hated seeing him on TV being told he was being replaced before he seemed to know it himself. Again, as with Jol, it lacked class.

Poch - still just feel it’s a bloody shame. Car crash final year, saved by the CL final. Feel he was not backed with the players he wanted for a long time, results left him. Squad became a mess. ENIC have questions to answer here too, carried the can to cover up ineptitude everywhere.

 

[FightingIllini]

Juande Ramos was the only one I didn't think was a huge overreaction and a mistake (not counting Sherwood, who never was really the permanent manager, regardless of what his contract may have said)

 

[JohnnyS]

Ramos - relieved

Harry - it was a somewhat bitter sweet feeling

AVB - like having sex with 3 women in the same time

Sherwood - indifferent

Poch - a bit too early to say, but I consider the right decision was made

 

[Gmspurs]

Jol - gutted

Ramos - relieved

Harry - gutted but understood

AVB - wanted him to succeed but it was obvious he wasn't going to

Poch - gutted but there was no choice. He appeared disinterested and had lost his Mojo.


Big question for me is whether our results/points/league position under Jose so far would have been any different if Poch was still here. I fear there'd only be a couple of points in it.

 

[sammyspurs]

Mainly disagree with you on Redknapp. Wouldn't have had a major problem if he stayed, but I thought the way he he behaved over the England job was out of order. Within 2 days of getting cleared over the tax trial, he was pointing his arse at the FA telling them he knew they fancied it. Had he done what Woy did(publicly denied any interest) he may have stayed in the job....and he has since admitted that he was thinking about who he wanted on his england staff during our matches.

How did he behave?
He always said no English man could turn it down, it was hardly a betrayal.
He had half the fan base calling him a criminal and hoping he went to jail despite the courts finding him not guilty, he stayed and worked through that whole trial and people wondered why our form wavered.

Levy pandered to it all, and was too quick to try and go next level just two years after breaking the top 4 which was deemed impossible. With a manager who was only brought on to stave off relegation.

People can say what they want about the second time we came 4th, but funny how the rules changed just a year later making us the last team to be fucked by it. The failure that season was Barca and Bayern’s, not Redknapps.

The club tried to run before it could walk, and despite the early years under Poch, ten years later we are exactly where Redknapp had us, only this time we are playing shit football and have to start over with Jose.

 

[Matt1882]

Joy at each one. They all deserved it.

Possibly the 2 that were somewhat unlucky were Redknapp and Jol. There are likely reasons we don't know on top of the ones we do that Levy pulled the trigger.

Has any manager ever been sacked from any club in a good state of health? Nope.

Edit - not including Real Madrid, Barcelona and their recent madness.

 

[iz futbal]

Harry was a strange one. .. Never really forgave him for his ‘this is as good as it gets’ comment, but we were fun to watch back then.

Lol. This is as good as it gets...yea for you Harry and you fucked it up!