Redknapp backs Allardyce

  • by Staff Writer
  • Friday, 10th January 2014

Former Hammers boss Harry Redknapp insists that Sam Allardyce will get it right at West Ham.

The current Queens Park Rangers boss is one of several potential candidates to replace Allardyce and considered by some bookies as the favourite to replace the current incumbent, whose job is hanging by a thread following the humiliating 5-0 and 6-0 defeats at Nottingham Forest and Manchester City respectively.

But speaking to the press ahead of Rangers' Championship meeting with Ipswich this weekend, Redknapp asseverated his belief that Allaryce will turn it around at West Ham. "Sam has just been so unlucky. You can’t lose your central defenders and your strikers – the team’s been decimated," he said.

"I don’t know what he can do. I look at the team and it hasn’t been good enough because he’s lost or four or five of his best players. You take four or five players out of any team in the country and they’ll be nowhere near what they were.

"When everyone’s fit I think he’s got a team that would finish middle of the table. There’s no-one better than Sam around to get them out of the situation they’re in. He just needs a bit of luck now. He needs his centre-halves and Andy Carroll to get fit. If he gets them back, Sam’s your man – he’s excellent at his job.

"When Sam gets those players back I’m sure they’ll survive. It’s a great club with fantastic support and I think they’ve got good owners who love the club and have the right manager."


* Redknapp was manager of West Ham between 1994 and 2001. He was fired by former Chairman Terry Brown after his final season (2000/01) saw the Club finish in 16th place, narrowly avoiding relegation.

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