What does the Redknapp news mean for Pompey and Spurs?

So I have had around 36 hours to reflect on the goings on of Saturday night and the early hours of Sunday morning. What exactly went on and what exactly does it mean for both clubs involved?

We'll start off with what it means for the club getting Harry Redknapp. First and foremost they are getting an excellent manager who will keep them in the Premiership without a shadow of doubt. Juande Ramos just didn't work and the whole Director of Football idea just never worked.

They now have a manager with a proven track record in the market as well as someone who can attract top quality players. Redknapp has never worked with a serious budget before but still managed to attract the likes of Jermain Defoe, Peter Crouch and Lassana Diarra to a club like Portsmouth.

No disrespect to Portsmouth, I am myself a Pompey fan but these types of players would not come to the club if it wasn't for the manager. Whether they'll stay at Pompey is another question that I'll try and answer later in the piece.

Spurs have good quality and should with a bit of belief and confidence make their way up to mid-table this season. In the window they'll have to find a striker or two who can score goals and that will be Harry's major concern. Also at the back they look a bit lightweight with the lack of Ledley King who only seems to be able to play once a week.

Will he raid his old club for players? You'd bet your bottom dollar that he'll be after the likes of David James, Glen Johnson, Lassana Diarra, Niko Krancjar, Jermain Defoe and Peter Crouch when January rolls around. He might even get one or two of them too but they'll be at vastly inflated fees. It is more likely that he'll have to scour the market and find players from other sources.

For Portsmouth though there are two schools of thought. Those who think that the club is about to curl up and die and those who think that the club will be alright. I'm in the latter of the two camps.

Harry did a fantastic job at Portsmouth, there can be no denying that but one man doesn't make a club. A new manager will come in and whose to say that he won't be better than Redknapp? How would Pompey fans react if Guus Hiddink walked through the door like he would've done if Redknapp hadn't changed his mind on taking the Toon job in January?

Personally I'd be rather happy to have a World Class manager in charge and feel the players at the club would be happy working under a man who had won things at the very highest level. Hiddink teams have also traditionally been very pleasing on the eye and that would go down well at Fratton Park.

Redknapp has stated that the club needed the £5million that Spurs offered for him and let's be honest about it – that is rubbish. He wanted the job and has tried to leave the club before until changing his mind. The man believed that he deserved a crack at what he saw was a big club and when Spurs came knocking for the second time in a year, this time Harry was itching to go.

I will always be grateful to him for taking my club to the best moments that I have ever witnessed in my lifetime. However he repeatedly stated that Portsmouth would be his last club and that was a lie. He wasn't forced out, he wanted to leave to stroke that massive ego of his and get a job where he'd have stupid amounts of money to spend.

Do I think it'd be hilarious if Spurs went down? Of course I do. Do I want them to go down? Yes I do. Does any Pompey fan I know want them to stay up? No I don't. So I think that sums it up for me. I think Spurs will stay up. I hope they don't. I hope Pompey will be fine and I think they will be.