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Redknapp: Villas-Boas needed more time
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Andre Villas-Boas deserved more time to work with and develop the Tottenham Hotspur squad, Harry Redknapp said on the day his successor was fired as manager.
“I think people are over-reacting too quickly,” he told Talksport Radio on Monday. “You lose a couple of games now and you’re in trouble, it shouldn’t be like that.
“You either think somebody is good at their job or not and when you appoint someone you should give them time and let them do the job,” added Redknapp, who is now in charge of Championship leaders Queens Park Rangers.
Three heavy defeats in two months, the most recent a 5-0 mauling by Liverpool at White Hart Lane on Sunday, resulted in the sack for Villas-Boas with his expensively assembled team lying a disappointing seventh in the Premier League table.
Spurs were also thrashed 6-0 at Manchester City three weeks ago and suffered the embarrassment of a 3-0 home defeat by struggling West Ham United in October.
But Redknapp felt it was too early to jettison the Portugal native.
“It’s far too early for people to start wanting to pull the plug on him. You’ve got to give him time and see what he can do,” he said just before it was announced that Villas-Boas had been dismissed.
Meanwhile, former Tottenham manager Glenn Hoddle would be interested in returning to the club, a source close to him revealed yesterday.
Technical coordinator Tim Sherwood, a former Spurs midfielder, has been placed in interim charge of first-team affairs following Villas-Boas’s dismissal.
Hoddle, 56, has not worked as a manager since leaving Wolverhampton Wanderers in 2006, but he appears eager to return to Spurs, where he made his name as a player before becoming coach in 2001.
A story published on a website co-founded by Hoddle yesterday said: “Zapsportz.com understands that Hoddle will certainly help if the club makes an approach.”
Hoddle has also received backing from his former Spurs teammate Ossie Ardiles, who also managed the club between 1993 and 1994.
“For me, the man for the job is Glenn Hoddle,” Ardiles told Talksport.
“I think he is a wonderful manager and he is a lot more mature, so I think he will be a wonderful choice,” Ardiles added. “He knows everything about the Premier League and Spurs especially.”
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