Tottenham Hotspur Hire Harry Redknapp As Manager After Firing Juande Ramos
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Ramos had led Spurs to their worst ever start to a league season and had acknowledged that his job was under threat.Tottenham sporting director Damien Comolli and first-team coaches Gus Poyet and Marcos Alvarez have also left their positions.
Redknapp, who last season led Pompey to the FACup, said the south coast club would receive £5m from Spurs for his services.
The 61-year-old, speaking to Sky Sports News in the early hours of the morning, said: "It's going to be done tonight, it will all be sorted out and by tomorrow morning I should be in place."
He added: "It's a great opportunity for me. It's a big club, Tottenham.
"I love Portsmouth and I loved my time there, we had some fantastic success and I'd never been happier.
"But it's a great deal for Portsmouth, £5m for me, and it's a chance for me to get on and see what I can do."
Of the fee being paid to Pompey, he said: "I think the club in all honesty needed the money - things are tight."
Development squad coach Clive Allen and youth team manager Alex Inglethorpe will take charge of the Spurs squad for today's Premier League clash with Bolton at White Hart Lane.
Spurs fired Ramos exactly a year after Martin Jol was dumped.
Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy was not satisfied with Jol's top-five finishes, wanting the club to clinch a lucrative Champions League berth by breaking into the top four.
He believed Ramos, who had back-to-back UEFA Cup triumphs with Sevilla, could take Spurs to the next level.
It took the Spaniard just four months to win the League Cup in February - Tottenham's first trophy since 1999 - but that triumph did not provide the launchpad to a glorious new era that fans longed for.
After Ramos masterminded that victory over Chelsea at Wembley, Spurs won just three Premier League matches - and not one this season.
Sporting director Comolli has been blamed for his poor command of Tottenham's transfer activity. The club has sold highly-rated strikers Robbie Keane, Dimitar Berbatov and Jermain Defoe, who is now at Portsmouth.
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