English Football In A Manager Merry-Go-Round
English football is going through its annual mid-season crisis with managers jumping from one club to the next. Juande Ramos is gone from Spurs leaving the door open for Portsmouth Manager Harry Redknapp to take over.
Redknapp has already served as manager at West Ham and Southampton before arriving at Portsmouth. He about to add Tottenham to his resume. He has some degree of success at Portsmouth taking them to victory in the FA Cup last season.
In the meantime, Sam Allardyce, the former Bolton and Newcastle manager is the favourite to take over at Portsmouth. Allardyce doesn’t have the best of records but he is taking over a team that is performing reasonably well in both the domestic and UEFA cup competitions.
As for Juande Ramos, he has only been in the job for a year and should receive a fairly good contract payout. Whereto from here? Ramos won the UEFA Cup with Sevilla and will be in demand, perhaps in Europe. No one can really criticize him for Spurs current situation. After all, Spurs sold several top players including Dimitar Berbatov to Manchester United and Robbie Keane to Liverpool, both top goalscorers. Roman Pavlyuchencko from Spartak Moscow was the only replacement and he has done nothing of note.
With the general state of football, don’t be surprised if Ramos ends up at Newcastle. He couldn’t do any worse there, could he?
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