The Manager

First name: Harry
Last name: Redknapp
Nationality: England
Date of birth: 2 March 1947
Age: 63
Country of birth: England
Following the sacking of Juande Ramos by Tottenham Hotspur, the club announced that Redknapp had agreed to take over as the new manager at Spurs.[25] Tottenham paid £5 million in compensation to Portsmouth for letting Redknapp go.[26] Spurs had secured only two points from the first eight games of the season prior to Redknapp’s arrival and lay bottom of the league, but in his first two weeks in charge he took the club out of the relegation zone, winning ten out of the twelve points available with wins against Bolton Wanderers, Liverpool and Manchester City and a remarkable 4–4 draw against North London rivals Arsenal. In January 2009, Redknapp signed five new players in order to add quality and much-needed depth to his squad. He brought back Jermain Defoe from his old club Portsmouth for £15.75 million, Honduran midfielder Wilson Palacios from Wigan Athletic for £12 million, long-serving Chelsea keeper Carlo Cudicini joined on a free transfer, ex-Spurs player Pascal Chimbonda returned to White Hart Lane from Sunderland for a fee in the region of £3 million and Robbie Keane, who like Chimbonda and Defoe had only left Spurs within the last year, re-joined after an unsuccessful spell at Liverpool for an initial fee of £12 million.

In the second half of the season, Spurs gradually moved up the league table after a significant improvement in form. In March 2009, Redknapp led Spurs to the League Cup final, which they lost on penalties to Manchester United. Spurs moved into the top half of the table, finishing in of eighth place and narrowly missing out on a Europa League place.

Redknapp made further alterations to the squad in the summer of 2009. Striker Darren Bent was sold to Sunderland for an initial fee of £10m, while midfielder Didier Zokora departed for Sevilla for £7.75 million.[28] In came England striker Peter Crouch from Portsmouth for £9 million, Niko Kranjčar from Portsmouth for £2 million, and defender Sébastien Bassong from Newcastle United.

In 2009–10, his first full campaign with the club, Redknapp guided Spurs to their most successful Premier League season to date. Beginning with four consecutive wins, Spurs went on to gain fourth place in the league, thus gaining the chance to qualify for the Champions League by means of a play-off. As a result of his efforts he was awarded the Premier League Manager of the Year award, only the second manager to do so in a season when they did not win the title

On 13 July 2010, was confirmed that Spurs had extended Redknapp’s contract until the end of the 2013 season.[34]

On 25 August 2010, Spurs confirmed their position in the Champions League by overturning a first-leg deficit to defeat Swiss team Young Boys at White Hart Lane in the Champions League play-off.

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