Harry Redknapp is and was a 'now' manager, he wants proven experienced players who will do a job for him now, youth is a distinct second choice. That however leaves an old squad that need overhauling wherever he goes.
There is nothing wrong with that approach but it does nothing for a clubs future. It served us at the time to do a job, it g
ot us to playing in the Champions League, a feat no other manager has achieved.
Daniel Levy needed a manager who would reduce the age of a team and build the clubs future in the manner Ars*nal have done. With an ageing side you constantly have to re-invent it and that is not a recipe for ongoing success.
First that was Andre Villas-Boas and when he took us backwards, Tim Sherwood took over on what is a temporary appointment in all but name.
We hurt just as Liverpool hurt last season but to take the club forward and build something it was the right decision.
Unfortunately AVB was not the right choice, we all thought he was and we were wrong as well so to criticise an appointment we were virtually all in favour of is only doing so with hindsight.
Bale stayed an extra season and we didn't get Champions League he then simply refused to wear a Spurs shirt again to force his move so Levy had no option but to sell, Modric refused to play and we kept him for an extra season and failed to get Champions League and Van Der Vaart went to Germany to try and save his marriage so you can hardly blame him for that, or stand in his way,
Harry wasn't given £100 million because we didn't have £100 million, we hadn't sold Bale by then. He has never had a youthful side, it's always old men. He never builds for the future, no club has had a future he's left, they have all had to rebuild.
However I do like your assessment of this season. sounds very accurate. Tim has always been an interim manager, albeit the wrong one, and the players clearly know it so aren't bothered, except for a few. It a question of wait for Van Gaal or Prandelli in the summer and endure more pain for the rest of this season.
I'm afraid I dissagree with a lot of this, you need to have experience in the team to bring the youth players on, they take them under thete wing, share what they have
Learned and help with the mental state and behavior. You cannot disemble any team , throw in so many new players and expect perfection!, Ars*nal have been grooming a young team but they have been doing it over 10 years, no manager is going to be able to get a full young team. Harry was the right man or at least the best we could hope for, he had us going in the right direction, he would never have bought so many players and put them straight into the team! . Plus the players he brought in where proven quality and they produced it!, that was no fluke that was down to years of experience, his team had a good understanding and the got players in where they where needed!. Look at us now, directors of football , chairmens who want a team made up by them, but what they fail to realise is the players the want play a certain way and have played for a team that's the finished article!, spurs are now a jigsaw , pieces here pieces there which are just being thrown together to see if they fit. How on earth is any manager going to turn this around?. I was behind Sherwood but we need an Alex fergusson here, a miracle, a manager that gets the players head straight, gets them to play in the position they where bought to play in, get a team formation and stick to it, get a first 11 and keep to it, no more tinkering ever game, play the best players every week to get the confidence up so there quality comes out on the pitch, and most of all go back to basics , go through every players job , the doos and the donts, no more blind passes, no more passing the ball at short distances 90 mph! Look up before you pass to see where your team mate is, no more standing still, no more bunching up, pass and move pass and move, no more taking an extra touch!, no more turning your back to goal, no more taking a man on in your own half, no more passing the ball to a player surrounded by the opposition were no Barcelona!, no more realying on the keeper to boot it up field because we have nowhere to go! Teach the players to cross a football, teach them how to propelly controll a football , and most of all to use there head, if it dosent look right don't do it.
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