Former Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp was told by Daniel Levy that he would have been his choice to come in and save the club from relegation if Spurs’ ex-chairman was still in power
Daniel Levy would have tried to persuade Harry Redknapp to come in for the final games of the season to rescue Tottenham from relegation if he were still at the north London outfit.
That’s according to Redknapp himself, who says he spoke with the former Spurs chairman last week about the club’s current plight. Levy was in power for more than 20 years at the club before leaving his role back in September.
Tottenham are currently embroiled in a relegation fight after another disastrous Premier League campaign. Fears are growing over their top-flight status after the club’s decision to replace the beleaguered Thomas Frank with Igor Tudor has failed to yield an upturn in results. The Croatian has lost all four of his games in charge and morale – and performances – have nosedived.
Tudor’s position is already under significant threat with Redknapp, 79, touted by fans as one option to be parachuted in.
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And while the former Spurs manager has played down the chances of that happening, he’s revealed that Levy would have tried to bring him in if he were still at the club. “I got a phone call last week from Daniel, funnily enough,” Redknapp told talkSPORT.
“I think I spoke to him once since I left all that time ago, and I was in the car last week and suddenly the phone goes, it’s Daniel Levy.
“I thought ‘that’s strange’ and I was on the phone to him for about half hour, chatting to him and he was explaining what happened to him, and how he got marched out of there, which was really strange.
“And he did say to me: ‘If I was there now, and I’m not just saying it, I would bring you back in until the end of the season, Harry’, so it would have been interesting.”
While Levy would seemingly try and bring Redknapp in until the end of the season, the man himself said he isn’t expecting a call from the current Tottenham hierarchy.
With Redknapp all but out of the picture, another popular figure from the club’s past, Jurgen Klinsmann, has indicated he would be interested in answering an SOS call.
He told ESPN: “Who wouldn’t want the job, it is Tottenham. Whoever you choose, you need a person who can connect to everyone emotionally, that knows the club, that feels the club, that feels the people. Because, to get out of this mess, they need to develop a fighting spirit, a really nasty, ugly, fighting spirit and that goes only over the emotions.
“So you don’t need to have to bring in the mastermind of tactical stuff or whatever, you need to have somebody who gets everybody onboard and go and get these games done in a positive way and get everybody behind the fact that they are in danger of going down to the Championship.”
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