October 26, 200816 yr 06:21 GMT, Sunday, 26 October 2008 Tottenham sack Ramos for Redknapp BBC SPORT Tottenham Hotspur are set to appoint Portsmouth boss Harry Redknapp as their new manager after sacking coach Juande Ramos late on Saturday night. Spurs have agreed a compensation package of £5m with Portsmouth, according to the 61-year-old Redknapp. Tottenham also axed sporting director Damien Comolli and first team coaches Gus Poyet and Marcos Alvarez following their worst ever start to a season. "It's a big opportunity to manage a big club before I retire," said Redknapp. Spurs are four points adrift at the bottom of the Premier League after taking just two points from eight matches this season. They also lost to Udinese in the Uefa Cup on Thursday. A Tottenham statement on Saturday read: "The club can announce that Damien Comolli, sporting director, Juande Ramos, head coach and first team coaches, Marcos Alvarez and Gus Poyet, have left the club, with immediate effect. We wish them well. "Clive Allen, development squad coach, and Alex Inglethorpe, youth team manager, will take charge for Sunday's league match against Bolton. "The club has requested permission to hold discussions with Harry Redknapp and Portsmouth FC has reluctantly agreed." Redknapp revealed that Spurs contacted Portsmouth on Friday morning, and after discussions between Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy and Pompey chief executive Peter Storrie, it was agreed he could talk to the north London club. "I've had a great time at Portsmouth and we've had an unbelievable, successful time over the six years I've been here," Redknapp told BBC Radio 5 Live. "But Tottenham made a fantastic offer to Portsmouth and it was difficult. "It was a lot of money - I think £5m, crazy money really. Pompey couldn't sell a player in the [transfer] window so we sell the manager." Redknapp expects the official announcement to come from White Hart Lane on Sunday morning, and he plans to be at White Hart Lane on Sunday to address the players before the Bolton match. "I am a big follower of the history of the game and Tottenham have been a great club over the years," Redknapp added on 5 Live. "I followed Tottenham, I trained there as an 11-year-old, 12-year-old so I know the history of the club. It is a big, big, club. "It is a club that has massively underachieved this year - to be sitting there with two points and, let's be honest, in a real desperate situation, a relegation battle. "There's a lot of quality players there that obviously haven't done as well as they should have done. You don't end up with two points from eight games if you're doing what you should be doing. "So they need to start performing as I know they can. Whether it's confidence or whatever, it's up to me to go in and try to get the best out of them players." Redknapp said first-team coach Joe Jordan and Tony Adams, the assistant manager, would be in charge of Portsmouth for Sunday's match against Fulham at Fratton Park. Redknapp spent most of his playing career with West Ham and Bournemouth and went on to manage both clubs before taking charge of Portsmouth in 2002, guiding the club into the Premier League within 14 months as First Division champions. He left for Pompey's bitter south coast rivals Southampton in 2004 but returned to Fratton Park in December 2005. Then, after dramatically saving Pompey from the drop with an unbelievable final 10-game run, Redknapp steered them to a best-ever Premier League finish of ninth in 2006/07. They bettered that by a place in 2007/08, and won the FA Cup against Cardiff, qualifying for their first journey into Uefa Cup football. In January, Redknapp held talks with Newcastle to succeed Sam Allardyce as manager but eventually rejected the offer. The 54-year-old Ramos joined Spurs from Sevilla on 27 October 2007 after Dutchman Martin Jol was sacked. The Spaniard enjoyed back-to-back Uefa Cup triumphs with Sevilla and guided Tottenham to February's League Cup final where they beat Chelsea 2-1 for the club's first trophy since 1999. However, several first-choice players left in the summer, notably Bulgaria striker Dimitar Berbatov to Manchester United and Robbie Keane to Liverpool. England striker Jermain Defoe was also sold last January to Redknapp's Portsmouth. Tottenham splashed out about £60m on the likes of Croatia midfielder Luka Modric, England winger David Bentley, Russia striker Roman Pavlyuchenko and Brazilian goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes. But Spurs have yet to win a league match this season and have only earned points from a 1-1 draw at Chelsea and a 0-0 home draw with Wigan Athletic.
October 26, 200816 yr Because he's lower than Spurs are. So far in October he's claimed he's "Portsmouth Til I Die" and claimed to be outraged at Spurs fans chanting towards Sol Campbell. Money talks and bull$h!t walks. Now please replace him with Big Sam!
October 26, 200816 yr Because he's lower than Spurs are. So far in October he's claimed he's "Portsmouth Til I Die" and claimed to be outraged at Spurs fans chanting towards Sol Campbell. Money talks and bull$h!t walks. Now please replace him with Big Sam! I totally agree with you. I have lost a huge amount of respect for Harry today. It looks like (according to Radio 5 Live this morning) Sam Allardyce will be the new Portsmouth manager.
October 26, 200816 yr It looks like (according to Radio 5 Live this morning) Sam Allardyce will be the new Portsmouth manager. Oh good, it means we won't get him when Calderwood is inevitibly sacked! Brian Laws please!
October 26, 200816 yr So Spurs tap up another manager? they'll still have the cheek to complain about it when someone does it to one of their players...
October 26, 200816 yr So Spurs tap up another manager? they'll still have the cheek to complain about it when someone does it to one of their players... Nope, Levy had a talk with Peter Storey and a £5Million compensation package was agreed! I'm suprised at Alladyce looking like he's gonna get it as I thought they'd take a chance on Jordan or Adams! I'd be amused if Redknapp tried to get Adams on his coaching staff considering how childishly seriously Spurs fans take rivalries :lol:
October 26, 200816 yr He's on the touchline as we speak Mikey :lol: Trying to flog second hand cars to the crowd ^_^
October 26, 200816 yr I didn't see that coming - especially with the stuff he kicked up about the anti-Sol Campbell chants when Spurs and Pompey met a few weeks back.
October 27, 200816 yr Spurs are 2-0 up versus Bolton. They're still gonna lose their next two games: Arsenal away and Liverpool home.
October 30, 200816 yr Lol! I watched this in the pub last night and the Spurs fans were cheering like they had won the bloody league :rofl: People were getting '4-4' on the back of their shirts today too! FFS! YOU DREW! :blink:
October 30, 200816 yr Lol! I watched this in the pub last night and the Spurs fans were cheering like they had won the bloody league :rofl: People were getting '4-4' on the back of their shirts today too! FFS! YOU DREW! :blink: They've released a commemorative DVD as well. Such a small club!
October 30, 200816 yr They've released a commemorative DVD as well. Such a small club! LOL! That's pretty sad. Just goes to show you how tin-pot Spurs are at the moment...
November 6, 200816 yr This thread has gone very quiet ;) Last 4 games under Harry Spurs 2 Bolton 0 Arsenal 4 Spurs 4 Spurs 2 Liverpool 1 Spurs 2 Zagreb 0 HT
November 6, 200816 yr I'm hoping that in the Carling Cup, Liverpool can erase the studity of the league match at White Hart Lane.
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