super club Benfica after being released by QPR at the end of last season. This may also be a private view shared by many Tottenham flops like Nico Kranjcar, Steven Piernar and Wilson Palacios to mention but a few. Tarrabt was also earlier accused by Rednapp as being "The worst professional I had worked with in my entire entire career". Tarrabt may have also being angered at making just three Premier League appearances under both Harry Rednapp and Chris Ramsey who replaced him after his January resignation.
Harry Rednapp's dramatic fall from grace to grass may be a
little more than coincidence. Also his unhappy marriage ending with QPR and club owner Tony Fernandes made matters worse. It is on record that Rednapp played a prominent role in QPR's getting twice relegated to the Championship from the Premier League in the small time of three years (2012-2015). While he may be exonerated of much of the blame for the 2013 relegation as he came in late to replace Mark Hughes, he will take most of the blame this time for their relegation last season. It is rumoured Rednapp resigned in January because he was not adequately backed in the transfer window by Tony Fernandes. One only has to question why more investment should be made by the owner when he spent most of the summer funds bringing in players who performed abysmally ( Steven Caulker- Cardiff, Rio Ferdinand - Manchester United, Mauricio Isla - Juventus, Eduardo Vargas - Napoli) to mention but a few.
From the way the club ended up last season, it was
clear Rednapp quickly opted out when he saw he had rocked the QPR boat. Prior
to his resignation QPR had played 11 away matches without a win and were in a
fierce relegation battle.
Has Rednapp lost his tactical magic which won him
admiration, love and affection during his time in Portsmouth and Tottenham? .
In less than three years ago, Rednapp was everyone's favourite for the vacant
England job after the sudden resignation of Italian Fabio Capello over the John
Terry racist saga. The English FA thought otherwise with the appointment
of Roy Hodgson and whether that was a mistake as Hodgson has not done
exceptionally well or exceptionally bad is a topic for another day.
Earlier in 2012, Rednapp took a less fancied Tottenham to finish at 4th in
the Premier League table after topping the League for weeks. Spurs boasted
top performing players like Luca Modric, Aaron Lennon, and Emmanuel Adebayo who
demolished opponents all the way till season end. Unfortunately his Spurs team
could not qualify for the UEFA Champions League as Chelsea were picked by the
FA to defend their Champions League trophy the next season after finishing 6th.
Chelsea will go on to make double history after being the first Champions
League defending champions to be eliminated at the first round and also
becoming the first team to win the Champions League and Europa League
successively. After Rednapp flirted with the England job with the hope of
landing it, Spurs sacked him feeling his flirtatious with the "Poisoned
Chalice (England job as Rednapp will later call it) was responsible for their
poor finish (did I hear you say 4th was poor finish for Spurs?). Portuguese
Andre Villas Boas was appointed in his place. Since then it has been a steady decline
for Rednapp.
Rednapp left QPR with a win ratio of 18.8% which is
the lowest of any permanent QPR manager in the Premier League history. Also
Rednapp set a Premier a League record of becoming the first man to lead a club
to lose all its opening 11 away games in the top flight since 1953-1954 season.
QPR appointed Chris Ramsey after the resignation of
Rednapp for the rest of the season but it was more of a damage control for so
much water had passed the bridge by then. QPR were hence relegated from the
Premier League at the end of last season. One now wonders If Rednapp has seen
his magic wane as he maintains “I still don't think I'm finished with
football". Only time will tell but what we know is that he left QPR worse
than he met them.
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