Harry Redknapp

Harry Redknapp
Harry Redknapp (2011)
Personnel
Surname	Henry James Redknapp
birthday	March 2, 1947
place of birth	Poplar , London ,  England
size	180 cm
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1964	West Ham United
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1964-1972	West Ham United	149 (7)
1972-1976	Bournemouth AFC	101 (5)
1976	Brentford FC	1 (0)
1976-1979	Seattle Sounders	24 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1983-1992	Bournemouth AFC
1994-2001	West Ham United
2002-2004	Portsmouth FC
2004-2005	Southampton FC
2005-2008	Portsmouth FC
2008–2012	Tottenham Hotspur
2012-2015	Queens Park Rangers
2016	Jordan (interim)
2017	Birmingham City
1 Only league games are given.

Henry "Harry" James Redknapp (born March 2, 1947 in Poplar , London , England ) is an English football coach and former player .

Player career

Born in Poplar, Redknapp was an Arsenal supporter in his youth after his father took him to a game in Highbury . However, he began his playing career with local rivals West Ham United , where he made a name for himself as a young winger and signed his first professional contract in 1964 at the age of 17. During his time at Upton Park , he scored eight goals in 149 top division games.

In 1974 he moved to Bournemouth AFC , where he spent four seasons and made 101 appearances. He then returned to London and played from 1976 until his resignation in 1979 for Brentford FC .

Coaching career

His coaching career began at the beginning of the 1982/83 season when Redknapp returned more than six years after his retirement as a player at AFC Bournemouth to assist the local head coach Don Megson .

Bournemouth AFC

When Megson was dismissed in 1984 and the "Cherries" were in the lower half of the table of the third class Third Division , the club management promoted Redknapp to the new sporting main responsible. Originally, Redknapp's job consisted only of staying up in the league, which he ultimately ensured through a comfortable point gap to the relegation ranks.

In addition, the club came under his leadership in the FA Cup to a surprise success. In the third round, the third division sensationally beat defending champions Manchester United . Redknapp was able to further establish himself in his office through these respectable successes.

From then on, he focused more and more on youth work and consistently built new talents into the squad and the team itself, including his son Jamie Redknapp . The Cherries developed into one of the best lower class teams in England, played attractive offensive football and Redknapp tried harder to find inexpensive players on the transfer market for further reinforcement.

After a few seasons of consolidation in mid-table, the final breakthrough took place in the 1986/87 season, when Redknapp with Bournemouth sovereignly with 97 points - which was a club record - won the third division championship and in the title race while Middlesbrough FC took second place referred.

Redknapp initially succeeded in establishing the club in the midfield of the Second Division , but without cultivating any further ambitions for further promotion. In 1990, the AFC Bournemouth rose again from the third division.

A personal tragedy befell Redknapp in the same year when he traveled to Italy for the World Cup . He was involved in a serious car accident that killed five people, including Brian Tiler, director of AFC Bournemouth. Redknapp himself was able to fully recover from the serious injuries.

He stayed until the end of the 1991/92 season with the club on the south coast of England and then resigned as he was disappointed due to the permanently limited club funds.

West Ham United

In the following season he took over as co-coach of Billy Bonds at West Ham United again a position at a club for which he had already been active as a player. When Bonds left the club after disagreements with the club's management in August 1994, Redknapp was promoted to head coach of the Premier League club.

In three years he finished with his new team at the end of the season on a midfield position and Redknapp's signature became increasingly recognizable. Nevertheless, the pressure became greater for him, as his own supporters rather recognized his failure to lead the club into the top half of the table. However, the Bureau stuck to Redknapp as West Ham coach during these turbulent times.

As in Bournemouth, Redknapp put the focus on youth work, which helped players like Rio Ferdinand , Joe Cole , Michael Carrick and Redknapp's nephew Frank Lampard to break through. In 1998, the "Hammers" finished the season in eighth place, which was increased in the following year by fifth place - one of the best positions in the club's history - and the associated qualification for the UI Cup .

In the following season, the performances in the league could not be confirmed. West Ham won the UI Cup, and the additional UEFA Cup games also led to signs of fatigue as the season progressed. In the last four games, the club took only one of twelve possible points. Also that season, West Ham lost Ferdinand, arguably their best defender , when he moved to Leeds United for £ 18million .

Although part of the money was reinvested in the renewed reinforcement of the team, Redknapp increasingly fell out with the club's management and held it against them to show too little ambition. On May 9, 2001 he left the club. The exact circumstances were not officially disclosed.

Portsmouth (2001-2004)

Redknapp returned to the business as football director at Portsmouth FC and found it difficult to find his way into the unfamiliar field of activity. Nevertheless, he remained loyal to Fratton Park and turned down a coaching offer from Leicester City in October 2001.

On March 25, 2002, Redknapp followed Graham Rix as an athletic trainer. Supported by the millions invested by club chairman Milan Mandarić, Redknapp added a primarily young squad with experienced players, including Paul Merson and Steve Stone, as well as Svetoslaw Todorow and Hayden Foxe, former West Ham United players . In addition, Jim Smith was hired as Redknapp's assistant.

Portsmouth FC was thus the favorite for promotion and actually achieved this for the first time in its history by winning the second division championship. Ironically for Redknapp, West Ham United was relegated that same year. For his performance during the season he was finally named the best second division coach ("LMA Manager of the Year").

Although rumors increased that Mandarić wanted to end his involvement with the club, his investments continued. Portsmouth supporters started the new season in a positive mood when Redknapp was able to upgrade his squad with players like Boris Živković , Dejan Stefanović and Teddy Sheringham . After a 2003/04 season plagued by a series of injuries, Redknapp was able to avert the relegation that had already appeared inevitable in between.

After a spectacular start, when Portsmouth were at the top of the table after beating Bolton Wanderers 4-0 and again three points against Aston Villa , the club only won one game in almost three months before a high 6-1 again - Successful win against Leeds United. The long-term injuries included Steve Stone and Swetoslaw Todorow as well as Tim Sherwood , Patrik Berger and Vincent Péricard , which made Redknapp active on the transfer market in January 2004 with the obligations of Eyal Berkovic , Ivica Mornar , Petri Pasanen and Lomana LuaLua . Portsmouth FC then ended the season with an impressive streak of six wins and only one defeat in ten games, in which Yakubu Aiyegbeni in particular played a major role with eleven goals.

Despite some controversy between Redknapp and Mandarić regarding transfers and training, Redknapp was able to complete his squad in the summer of 2004 and publicly declared that he wanted to make an established Premier League club out of Portsmouth. Nevertheless, the disagreements with Mandarić continued to grow and resulted in Redknapp's resignation on November 23, 2004. He announced a break from football.

Southampton (2004-2005)

Nevertheless, Redknapp signed on to Southampton FC in December . The club is a bitter rival of Portsmouth FC and has been verbally attacked by its supporters as " Judas ". Further statements by both sides only intensified the already existing rivalry.

Redknapp found a team in disarray in Southampton, manifested in the sacking of Paul Sturrock and later Steve Wigley . He could not prevent the club's relegation during the six months in the coaching office. During the last days of the game there was also a clash with his old club from Portsmouth, who finally defeated Southampton 4-1. The 2-1 defeat on the last day of the game at Manchester United then sealed the case in the second-rate Football League Championship , Southampton had previously played in the English top division without interruption since 1978. Redknapp had also never been relegated from the elite class before and decided to continue his work in the second division.

However, the new season went badly again in the first few months and was characterized by a long series of draw results. On December 3, 2005, he then announced his departure from Southampton FC, with indications in the media that he wanted to return to his old club in Portsmouth and Redknapp saw his coaching position in view of the rivalry between the two clubs as weakened. Following Redknapp's departure, Southampton FC club chairman Rupert Lowe announced an official investigation into Portsmouth FC's role in the matter.

Return to Portsmouth (2005-2008)

Redknapp actually went back to his old club on December 7, 2005 and succeeded Frenchman Alain Perrin . Milan Mandarić was pleased with this development, although large parts of the media strongly criticized the “Redknapp-Portsmouth-Southampton Affair” and the consequences for the credibility of the football business.

A significant part of the possible return of Redknapp was the departure of Velimir Zajec , whose commitment as football director was seen as the main reason for the increasing tensions between Mandarić and Redknapp in 2004, and Clive Woodward at Southampton FC also played a similar role and to speculation had led to Redknapp's position.

With the arrival of the new co-owner Alexandre Gaydamak at Portsmouth FC on January 2, 2006, doubts arose again as to whether Redknapp could continue his coaching job as usual. However, Gaydamak eliminated these suspicions with the statement that he was only interested in keeping the club in the top English league. Portsmouth FC was mostly in the relegation zone in the 2005/06 season and hopes grew weaker as good form at the end of the season led to remaining in the league. After a temporary eight-point distance to the non-relegation place and just two months before the end of the season was Redknapp after this positive turnaround as "Great Escape" (German: "great escape" ) was referred to by the public as " Harry Houdini appreciated" , with some observers insisting on the fact that the club had been above the relegation zone before Redknapp's signing and only Redknapp himself had maneuvered Portsmouth FC into an almost hopeless position and then saved it.

On May 25, 2006, Redknapp signed a three-year contract after his previous contract expired at the end of the 2005/06 season.

On November 28, 2007, Redknapp was arrested on suspicion of corruption.

Tottenham Hotspur (2008 to 2012)

On October 26, 2008 Redknapp moved to Tottenham Hotspur . In 2010 Spurs qualified for the Champions League for the first time in the club's history. In June 2012, his contract was terminated prematurely after negotiations about a contract extension failed.

Queens Park Rangers (2012 to 2015)

On November 24, 2012 Redknapp signed a contract until June 30, 2015 with the Queens Park Rangers , who had dismissed Mark Hughes as head coach the day before . He resigned from this post on February 3, 2015 for health reasons.

Jordan (2016)

After Redknapp was introduced in January 2016 as the sports director of the amateur club Wimborne Town and in mid-March 2016 as an advisor to the previous interim trainer of Derby County , Darren Wassall , Redknapp took on an interim position as a trainer for the Jordanian national football team in March 2016 . While his contract with Derby County ran until the end of the season, the contract with the Jordanian Association was limited to the following two qualifying games for the 2018 World Cup .

Birmingham City (2017)

After the resignation of coach Gianfranco Zola , Redknapp was announced as his successor at the second division club Birmingham City .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tottenham can rejoice  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Tottenham Hotspur confirm that Harry Redknapp will leave the club , Guardian article from June 14, 2012
3. ↑ EXCLUSIVE: REDKNAPP APPOINTED ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Redknapp resigns at Queens Park. Report on sport1.de from February 3, 2015 (accessed on February 3, 2015).
5. ^ Football: Wimborne Town have two new directors ... and one of them is Harry Redknapp , accessed on March 16, 2016
6. ^ Harry Redknapp in line for Derby director of football job , accessed March 16, 2016
7. ^ Harry Redknapp to manage Jordan and mentor Darren Wassall at Derby , accessed on March 16, 2016
8. ↑ Redknapp takes over Birmingham , accessed April 18, 2017

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