Axed Redknapp ready to call it quits after 34yrs
HARRY REDKNAPP is set to retire after being sacked by Birmingham.
The 70-year-old says there is “every chance” his managerial career is over after his departure from St Andrews on the back of six straight defeats.
He’s been a survivor of the managerial merry-go-round for 34 years but ex-Spurs boss Redknapp admits this could be his last job.
He said: “I doubt very much whether it will happen again now.
“I’m a realist. If I could help someone, somewhere, help a young manager, I’d love that. I did it at Derby with Darren Wassall and had a great time.”
Redknapp kept the Blues up last season but the start to this campaign has been a disaster. They are one place off the bottom of the Championship table after six successive defeats.
It is a clear indication that the pressure of producing in a so-called “results business” is greater than ever, when even Redknapp can be sacked after a handful of games.
Goals from Daniel Johnson, Jordan Hugill and Tom Barkhuizen in 11 second-half minutes cancelled out Maxime Colin’s opener for the Blues to seal a 3-1 defeat and the manager’s fate.
Redknapp laid the blame on the club’s recruitment process – they brought in 14 players in the summer – and the fact four deals were done on deadline day.
But he suggested the next manager could go up on the back of the squad he built.
He said: “I still feel they are capable of challenging for the play-offs. I’m sure there are great times ahead.
“Given time we would have turned it round. I couldn’t get the players in I was after and it went down to deadline week before I got a big influx.
“Then it was six players making their debut on one day then three games in that week, so even training was difficult. It’s a shame I didn’t get to see it through.”