Harry Redknapp: Tottenham should have become a title-winning team... but they're 'nowhere near' now

Matt Davies10 May 2020

Harry Redknapp believes his former club Tottenham missed a golden opportunity to win a trophy under Mauricio Pochettino and are now "nowhere near" the team they were just a few years ago.

After falling significantly behind the Premier League's top contenders under predecessors Andre Villas-Boas and Tim Sherwood, Pochettino transformed Tottenham into a team capable of competing on all fronts.

Spurs were involved in back-to-back title chases, although missing out to both Chelsea and Leicester, with the 2016-17 campaign particularly notable, the north London club finishing in second and undefeated at home.

Pochettino and Tottenham came within touching distance of glory on multiple occasions, most recently enduring a devastating 2-0 defeat against Liverpool in the final of the Champions League.

However, while they announced themselves to the European elite with that run, Tottenham's league form started plummeting from January last year, with Pochettino lasting only until November this season.

Jose Mourinho was subsequently brought to the helm, but Spurs - albeit with an extensive injury list - soon dropped out of the FA Cup and Champions League, and currently sit seven points behind fourth-placed Chelsea.

Former purs boss Redknapp has highlighted a number of key exits he believes have resulted in their downfall.

“A couple of years ago I looked at them when they had Kyle Walker at right-back, who was absolutely flying, Danny Rose at left-back," Redknapp told talkSPORT.

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“You looked at that team, Christian Eriksen was playing, Mousa Dembele - they really did look [good]. I thought they were a Premier League-winning team in the next year or two.

“I look at them now and I don’t see them anywhere near that, to be truthful. They have still got Harry Kane and they have still got good players but they’re nowhere near.

"They’ve got Dele Alli too but they’re nowhere near where they were – in my opinion – three or four years ago when they should have won something under Mauricio Pochettino.”

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