{"id":660454,"date":"2025-12-29T14:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T14:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/660454\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T14:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T14:47:17","slug":"harry-redknapp-major-contender-for-sensational-return-to-management-in-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/660454\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Redknapp major contender for sensational return to management in Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Credit: Imago<\/p>\n

\"Evan <\/p>\n

Mon 29 December 2025 10:49, UK Updated Mon 29 December 2025 11:10, UK <\/p>\n

Harry Redknapp has emerged among the options for Premier League clubs looking to replace their managers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bournemouth could soon be looking for a manager<\/a>, with Andoni Iraola<\/a> coming under mounting pressure at the Vitality Stadium after nine consecutive Premier League<\/a> games without victory.<\/p>\n

Eddie Howe is also facing calls to be sacked at Newcastle United<\/a>, who have endured a woeful start to the season.<\/p>\n

Redknapp<\/a>, 78, has not returned to management since leaving Birmingham City<\/a> in 2017, but revealed his interest in taking over Leeds United<\/a> in 2023.<\/p>\n

West Ham are also considering a managerial change<\/a>, as they desperately look for a way out of the relegation zone.<\/p>\n

\"NunoCredit: ImagoHarry Redknapp enters race for West Ham job<\/p>\n

West Ham have been predicted to be relegated from the Premier League<\/a> this season, having won just three of their 18 Premier League fixtures.<\/p>\n

The Hammers enjoyed a positive pre-season and looked set to kick on under Graham Potter<\/a>, but the last four months have been nothing short of disastrous. <\/p>\n\nPremier League bottom five<\/td>\nPoints<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLeeds United<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nNottingham Forest<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nWest Ham<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nBurnley<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nWolves<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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When the former Chelsea<\/a> manager was sacked at the end of September, Nuno<\/a> was immediately hired.<\/p>\n

The Portuguese coach led Nottingham Forest<\/a> on an incredible journey towards European football last season, and looked to be an ideal appointment. <\/p>\n

But Nuno has struggled just as much as Potter did, failing to encourage any positive form out of his players save for a brief period in November.<\/p>\n

West Ham<\/a> are now considering a second managerial departure of the season if their form does not quickly improve, and shock contenders have emerged. <\/p>\n

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Despite announcing his retirement from management in 2017, Redknapp is at 9\/1 odds of taking over at the London Stadium, while fellow former Hammers boss Slaven Bilic<\/a> leads the race at 6\/4 according to one major bookmaker.<\/p>\n

What has Redknapp said about West Ham?<\/p>\n

Redknapp enjoyed a positive spell in charge of West Ham between 1994 and 2001, helping establish the club in the Premier League. <\/p>\n

Under his guidance, the likes of Frank Lampard<\/a>, Rio Ferdinand and Joe Cole<\/a> came through at Upton Park, later moving on for significant fees.<\/p>\n

Whether he would return once again to attempt to lead West Ham out from a perilous position, however, remains to be seen. <\/p>\n

Speaking on Monday, Redknapp told talkSPORT: \u201cI look at the league, and I am thinking, well, who is going to go?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cLeeds are on a roll they are playing fantastic at the moment, I think Sean Dyche will get Notts Forest out, he knows what he is about, he\u2019ll be fine.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are relying on Burnley, they are not completely out of it, Wolves look completely out of it, unfortunately for them, but Burnley could still, you know, they are red-hot favourites to go, but you never know.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho is that third spot, who is it going to be, I mean at the moment, West Ham are massive odds-on, I don\u2019t see who else is going to get sucked in.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Imago Mon 29 December 2025 10:49, UK Updated Mon 29 December 2025 11:10, UK Harry Redknapp has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,12513,28844,79,16,15,1927],"class_list":{"0":"post-660454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-harry-redknapp","10":"tag-nuno-espirito-santo","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-west-ham"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115803406138803862","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}