Comolli: Proud of his spell at Tottenham
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Comolli: Time at Spurs a success
Former sporting director Damien Comolli insists his time at Spurs was a success and claims their upturn in fortunes is a result of his legacy.
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Comolli was sacked last month along with former head coach Juande Ramos after a disastrous start to the season which saw Spurs claim just two points from their opening eight league games, leaving them four points adrift at the bottom of the Premier League.
Comolli had overseen transfer dealings over the previous three years but it was the sales of strikers Robbie Keane and Dimitar Berbatov, to Liverpool and Manchester United, respectively, that apparently underpinned Spurs' struggles.
New acquisitions Fraizer Campbell, on loan from Manchester United, and Roman Pavlyuchenko failed to shine under Ramos while David Bentley and Jonathan Woodgate went public with their criticism of the team's displays.
Harry Redknapp was immediately appointed as new manager and has led the side out of the drop zone and into the quarter-finals of the Carling Cup with the likes of Campbell and Pavlyuchenko inspired by the former Pompey boss' arrival.
However, Comolli believes he is at least partly responsible for the side's improvement.
He told The Sun: "My time at Tottenham went exceptionally well.
"I took a lot of pleasure in what I achieved.
"I had a lot of success. I did a lot of good for the team and left a club in great shape.
"The current results are showing what I did for Tottenham. The team is great and young."
Comolli, who has since joined French side St Etienne in a similar role, continued: "I am still asking myself what happened in the end. I don't understand it.
"I advised the club to take a coach (Ramos) and it went well at first. But when he had problems the club turned on me.
"I am leaving a club with a lot of assets, many, many good players."
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simsspur (Tottenham Hotspur fan)
"Homerjay540 -Oh Yeah! My bad! I still made some valid points though cos it bugs me when fans outside of the top four play down the importance of the Carling Cup. They can't even consider the league or champions league so might do well to take it more seriously."
homerjay540 (Manchester United fan)
"actually simsspur (tottenham fan), this isn't the tottenham page. this page relates to this one story only. whats the matter, you can't handle a bit of debate so you just tell people to go away? haha."
simsspur (Tottenham Hotspur fan)
"Jazza0707 (Aston Villa fan)- Why don't you stick posting on your own club's page? Spurs have had the worst start in a hundred years and they are still only 8 points behind your fifth-placed team. With regard to the Carling Cup, a trophy is a trophy and it has the added bonus of a European place. I would be asking myself why Villa aren't going for that 'tin cup' because you sure as hell are not going to win any other trophy! Do Chelsea not care about it? Did you see their team?"
purist (Manchester United fan)
"i dont think Comolli had a choice on Managers, he was the Sprorting Director, otherwise known as Cheif Scout for Players only. As for Dimi, I agree, he should have taken action or at least anticipate that he was going to go, BUT, there was no gurantee Dimi was going to go, look at Barry with Aston Villa, Liverpool lost interest and they bought in Sidwell, imagine Tottenham couldn't get rid of Dimi and they bought in an expensive player? It would have been a big gamble, but yeh, he failed to anticipate this, I agree there"
jazza0707 (Aston Villa fan)
"LOL, upturn in fortunes?! There hasnt been an upturn in fortunes! They were top 5 when Comolli and Ramos came in and look at them now! And when did it go well? That tin pot cup no club bar Spurs seems to care about? Any "big" club puts out a reserve or youth team. Comolli and Ramos's time was a complete and utter failure."
aismynick (Manchester United fan)
"of course Comolli is responsible for the side's improvement. He left."
djohnson (Tottenham Hotspur fan)
"Mug."
bwebber (Tottenham Hotspur fan)
"You brought in Zokora for £8.3m, well done! You messed up regarding strikers and brought in countless new players, who would need time to settle. At the same time Harry has settled them in now and shame Ramos could not to do the same. I hope Ramos gets another job and does well. I just don't think he grasped English football and the more physical nature of it. Plus he priorities cups and this is not a healthy way forward."
yidash (Tottenham Hotspur fan)
"purist (man U fan) yeah he did bring in those players, but he also underminded jol and brought in ramos. which apart from a couple of cup games success, was a disaster! im not one for jol to come back and thought he took us as far as he could but he would of motivated the team. the one good thing he did for us was get the sack!"
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