The former Tottenham boss reiterated that the R’s cannot solve their problems with a quick-fix and need to lay out a strategy which can be executed in a couple of years.
Under the tutelage of Mark Hughes, Queens Park http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Rangers-c40314, attempted to right a wrong by signing a number of star players this summer. The club, hoping to avoid a relegation battle like last time, though struggled to replicate their star studded team sheet on the pitch and their displays waned ostensibly.
Hughes was later given the axe after failing to pick up a win and on came Harry Redknapp, the magician who has pulled off impressive tricks at Tottenham, Portsmouth and Southampton in the past.
Such has been the calibre of the Englishman that he managed to bring UEFA Champions League football to White Hart Lane, only a season or two after helping them avoid relegation.
Same was the case with Pompey, who at one point, were fighting with AC Milan in Europe and now are in the lower ends of League One.
Redknapp is perhaps the only manager on the market who can truly deliver at Loftus Road, but unlike his predecessor, the tactician believes that rising from the ashes requires careful planning and a long-term strategy, not just a short, quick fix.
"I'm not here for a short-term fix, keep the club up...I want to build something here. I want to stay up and then build a team next year that can progress and eventually be up in the top half of the table every season,” said the coach.
Continuing, the one-time Saints’ boss added that Hughes lost his http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Job-c18684 of the team’s inability to win, but the blame actually lies with the players, who failed to perform on the pitch.
"There were some good signs there but there has to be that 90-minute consistency to pick up some results because to be honest you don't have four points from 13 games...there has to be something fundamentally wrong. Unfortunately for Mark it cost him his job but it's not just Mark or the coaching staff, it comes down to the players at the end of the day,” Redknapp was quoted as saying to the media after taking charge of the team on Sunday.
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