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Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp has been charged with two counts of tax evasion.
Mr Redknapp, 62, was charged with cheating the public revenue of about £40,000 at Bishopsgate police station.
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Portsmouth have sacked England and Arsenal legend Tony Adams and his first team coach John Metgod after a run of form which saw Pompey win only two in 16 premier league games.
Adams had only been in the job since October when Harry Redknapp deserted the club for Tottenham. To be fair to him he inherited a club which would not back him in the transfer market and also sold some of their most influential players. I think that they had been playing some pretty good football and had suffered some bad luck in recent weeks, but I guess that results are what matters. Especially when relegation could see the club loose millions of pounds. Avram Grant and Allan Curbishley have been touted as replacements.
I can understand Pompey's position but it seems sad to me that good English managers are not given the time to develop in the premier league. Will there ever be another english England manager?Portsmouth have sacked England and Arsenal legend Tony Adams and his first team coach... more
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According to the Daily Star, Harry Redknapp is lining up a sensational move for England hero David Beckham.
The LA Galaxy star, 33, has been in final negotiations for a two-month loan move to AC Milan from January.
However, the tabloid suggests that the new Spurs boss is convinced that the lure of "home" will outstrip the call of Milan for Beckham.
Beckham has a long history with Spurs.
He trained with the club's youth squad aged 10 and has been a regular at matches over the years.
The club is a stone's throw from his childhood home of Chingford.
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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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Tottenham Hotspur have appointed Portsmouth boss Harry Redknapp as their new manager after sacking coach Juande Ramos late on Saturday night.
Spurs have agreed a compensation package of £5m with Portsmouth, according to the 61-year-old Redknapp.
Tottenham also axed sporting director Damien Comolli and first-team coaches Gus Poyet and Marcos Alvarez following their worst ever start to a season.
"It's a big opportunity to manage a big club before I retire," said Redknapp.
Spurs are four points adrift at the bottom of the Premier League after taking just two points from eight matches this season. They also lost to Udinese in the Uefa Cup on Thursday.
A Tottenham statement on Saturday read: "The club can announce that Damien Comolli, sporting director, Juande Ramos, head coach and first team coaches, Marcos Alvarez and Gus Poyet, have left the club, with immediate effect. We wish them well.
"Clive Allen, development squad coach, and Alex Inglethorpe, youth team manager, will take charge for Sunday's league match against Bolton.
"The club has requested permission to hold discussions with Harry Redknapp and Portsmouth FC has reluctantly agreed."
Pompey couldn't sell a player in the [transfer] window so we sell the manager
Harry Redknapp
Redknapp revealed that Spurs contacted Portsmouth on Friday morning, and after discussions between Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy and Pompey chief executive Peter Storrie, it was agreed he could talk to the north London club.
"I've had a great time at Portsmouth and we've had an unbelievable, successful time over the six years I've been here," Redknapp told BBC Radio 5 Live.
"But Tottenham made a fantastic offer to Portsmouth and it was difficult.
"It was a lot of money - I think £5m, crazy money really. Pompey couldn't sell a player in the [transfer] window so we sell the manager."
Redknapp expects the official announcement to come from White Hart Lane on Sunday morning, and he plans to be at White Hart Lane on Sunday to address the players before the Bolton match.
Tottenham is a club that has massively underachieved this year - to be sitting there with two points and, let's be honest, in a real desperate situation, a relegation battle
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"I am a big follower of the history of the game and Tottenham have been a great club over the years," Redknapp added on 5 Live.
"I followed Tottenham, I trained there as an 11-year-old, 12-year-old so I know the history of the club. It is a big, big, club.
"It is a club that has massively underachieved this year - to be sitting there with two points and, let's be honest, in a real desperate situation, a relegation battle.
"There's a lot of quality players there that obviously haven't done as well as they should have done. You don't end up with two points from eight games if you're doing what you should be doing.
"So they need to start performing as I know they can. Whether it's confidence or whatever, it's up to me to go in and try to get the best out of them players."
Redknapp said first-team coach Joe Jordan and Tony Adams, the assistant manager, would be in charge of Portsmouth for Sunday's match against Fulham at Fratton Park.Tottenham Hotspur have appointed Portsmouth boss Harry Redknapp as their new manager... more
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Billionaire owners want to choose who plays for their teams - day is coming when a manager will have no input into who is bought
Harry Redknapp is convinced that the days of a powerful manager running an English club are numbered.
And the Portsmouth boss has no intention of hanging around when it eventually happens.
Kevin Keegan and Alan Curbishley resigned from their posts at Newcastle and West Ham last week after claiming they were kept in the dark about transfer policies.
And Redknapp believes that further foreign investment in top-flight football will signal the end of the way a boss operates.
Redknapp said: "It's not a case of if but when. Trust me, the billionaire owners who are buying up football clubs want a far greater say.
"They don't just want to own a football club, they want to go out and choose who plays for them as well.
"The day is coming when a manager will have little or no input into who is bought or sold. It's like that abroad and you can see more and more clubs going down that route as wealthier individuals take control.
"Foreign clubs like Real Madrid and some of the top Italian sides have been working like that for years.
"The only function a manager has is to select his team and coach them. The problem with that is when it all goes wrong on the pitch it's the manager who gets fired for other people's decision-making."
Redknapp cites the situation at Manchester City as a prime example of the way football is going to evolve.
"I'm sure Mark Hughes right was delighted to get Robinho but he wouldn't have had anything to do with it," he explained. "The new owners would have made that decision and the way they have bandied names around left, right and centre I'm damned sure that wasn't done in consultation with Mark."
Redknapp accepts that he is fortunate in that, although Pompey are in foreign ownership, his immediate bosses don't try to impose themselves on him.
He added: "I'm very lucky in that I have a great working relationship with Alexandre Gaydamak. I guess I'm an exception to the rule. He has never tried to tell me who to buy and sell.
"He relies on me to identify the players I want to bring into the club, and that is the way it should be.
"Don't get me wrong - people seem to assume I have a problem with directors of football but that isn't the case at all.
"But if you are going to use that structure the relationship between the manager and the director of football has to be solid. When it isn't you get a situation like the one that developed at Newcastle, where Kevin Keegan clearly didn't get on with Dennis Wise and it led to major issues.
"I don't really know what went on but you can assume that things happened that Kevin had no control over.
"A director of football was mentioned to me when I met Newcastle but I didn't want that. I wanted to manage my way. That was the only way I saw the job."
Redknapp is adamant that if the day arrives when he is told who to buy and sell he will get up and walk away.
"I might be old-fashioned but I'm not having that," he concluded.
"If I'm going to manage a team I want control over player recruitment. I'm not buying into someone picking and choosing the players for me.
"Stuff that. The day that happens will be the day I walk out on football for good."
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