Redknapp To Wheel & Deal In January?

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Tottenham Hotspur boss Harry Redknapp, despite being at a bigger club since he left Portsmouth in October has revealed that Spurs will not be making any major signings, when the transfer window reopens in January.

Instead Redknapp has revealed that after a meeting with Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy that he will be “happy” to bring in a couple of players on loan to the Premier League club in January.

Tottenham’s form under Redknapp has been good since his arrival from Pompey, with Redknapp, who has a ‘wheeler dealer’ reputation in the transfer market linked with a host of players from both England and abroad. Included in the players linked with a move to White Hart Lane next month are Welsh International goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey from Wolverhampton Wanderers along with winger Stewart Downing from Premiership rivals Middlesbrough and Argentine Fernando Cavenaghi from French club Bordeaux.

However, Redknapp has claimed there will not be lots of cash spent in January and that he will be content if he can bring in a couple of loan signings to the North London club.

Redknapp told the press: “I had a meeting with the chairman the other day and he said no-one would be spending fortunes. I don't want to spend fortunes anyway.

“If I can bring in some loans, I will be more than happy.”

Redknapp takes Spurs to face former club West Ham United on Monday night in the Premier League, with Redknapp having spent 15 years in total as a player and manager at Upton Park, but will put old friendships aside in a bid to secure all three points and steer Tottenham away from the wrong end of the Premiership.

Comoli: Recent Spurs Results Down To Me Not Redknapp

Former Tottenham Hotspur sporting director Damien Comoli, who was sacked by Spurs along with manager Juande Ramos and coach Gus Poyet last month has insisted that the revival at the North London club under new boss Harry Redknapp is down to the foundations the Frenchman had built at White Hart Lane and not former Portsmouth manager Redknapp.

Comoli was eventually sacked by Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy after a string of blunders in the transfer market since his appointment and has spoken out for the first time since his dismissal at Spurs.

Comoli said: “My time at Tottenham went exceptionally well.

“I had a lot of success. I did a lot of good for the team and left a club in great shape.

“The current results are showing what I did for Tottenham. The team is great and young."

Comoli has also claimed to be in the dark as to why he was shown the exit at Spurs along with Ramos and Poyet.

“I am still asking myself what happened in the end. I don't understand it,” Comoli added.

“I advised the club to take a coach (Ramos) and it went well at first. But when he had problems the club turned on me.

“I am leaving a club with a lot of assets, many, many good players.”

Redknapp On £4million Bonus To Keep Spurs In The Premier League

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New Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp is set to collect a cool £4million bonus if he can keep Spurs in the Premier League, according to The Mirror.

Redknapp took the helm at the North London club last Sunday in a shock move, with the 61-year-old leaving Portsmouth to replace Juande Ramos at White Hart Lane, who eventually paid the price for overseeing the worst start to a season in Tottenham’s history after nearly a year in charge of Spurs.

Tottenham were rooted to the bottom of the Premiership when Redknapp arrived, without a win and with only two points from eight games played. However, just the presence of Redknapp in the dugout for the Premier League clash against Bolton Wanderers seemed to inspire to Spurs to their first win of the season.

This was followed by the 4-4 North London derby thriller against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium last Wednesday, where Tottenham came from two goals behind in the dying minutes and a last gasp injury time winner against early Premiership pacesetters Liverpool at White Hart Lane on Saturday.

The seven points from the three games that Spurs have collected since Redknapp has been in charge at Tottenham have seen the North London club climb off the bottom of the Premier League. With Redknapp a certainty to collect his bonus from Spurs chairman Daniel Levy if his new charges continue to pick up results after the turnaround of the last week, which has lifted the mood at Tottenham.

Spurs Chief Levy: Berbatov Refused To Play & Showed No Respect

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Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy has blasted former player Dimitar Berbatov, with the Spurs chief claiming that the Bulgarian International twice refused to play for the North London club as he tried to engineer a move to Manchester United.

Berbatov, finally got his wish to leave White Hart Lane for Old Trafford on transfer deadline day in a £30.75million deal that saw Frazier Campbell come the other way on loan, but levy insists that Berbatov’s refusal to play in the Premier League matches against Sunderland and Chelsea had “a detrimental affect” on the Tottenham dressing room.

“We had a player who had refused to play two games for us, having a detrimental affect on the dressing-room,” said Levy.

“We'd known for a year that the player had wanted out of this club."

Berbatov was a £10.9million signing from Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen in 2006, with Levy claiming that Berbatov had wanted to leave for the European Champions since 2007 after an outstanding debut season in the Premiership.

"We were very disappointed,” Levy said.

“Dimitar Berbatov was a player who we brought to this club at a time when Man Utd were interested in him.

“He made a conscious decision to come to this club, we invested a lot of money, nobody had ever heard of Dimitar Berbatov when we bought him.

“A year later with 10 days to go to the end of the window he tells us he wants to leave to go to Manchester United.”

Levy also believes that Berbatov’s conduct throughout the whole transfer saga, showed contempt for Spurs and that the Bulgarian didn’t treat Tottenham with the respect it deserved after putting Berbatov on the map.

“I don't think he treated this club with the respect that we honestly deserved," Levy continued.

“We put him on the map, I think he's an outstanding player, but he signed a long-term contract with this club and I think he should have stayed.

“I had so many conversations with him. He kept saying it was about his ambition to play for Manchester United. It wasn't a money issue. We offered him a new contract and he wasn't even interested in discussing it.”