Redknapp: Spurs squad as good as Liverpool and Man City’s

Harry Redknapp does not feel “there’s a lot between” Tottenham’s squad compared to Liverpool and Manchester City’s.

Tottenham were expected to challenge for the Premier League title this season after they pushed Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola’s sides to their limits before falling around the turn of the year.

Redknapp’s former side reached the Champions League final but finished fourth in the Premier League, 27 points off the title-winning pace.

Pressure is mounting on Mauricio Pochettino but Redknapp feels that Tottenham will still finish third.

“Yeah, absolutely, that is not going to happen,” he told the Daily Mail when asked if Tottenham would sack Pochettino.

“I don’t know if they’ve overachieved. They should be finishing in the top three with that squad, that’s where they should be, there’s no doubt about that in my opinion.

“But to get to a Champions League final was great for them. It was great to see them reach the final.

“At the start of the year I really thought Spurs would push Man City and Liverpool a lot, lot closer. Tottenham have got a great team, with Harry Kane, Dele Alli, Son – I thought this could be their year.

“But it’s been a disappointing start for them for sure and they need to turn it around quickly, but I still think they’ll finish third.

“But they’ve got the best stadium in the country, the best training ground. It’s all in place.

“They’ve got a great group of players. It’s some squad, if you go through it, I don’t care what anybody says I don’t think there’s a lot between that squad and Liverpool’s and Man City’s squad, I really don’t.

“You’re as good as your players. Graham Taylor once said ‘your manager is never as good as you think he is and he’s never as bad as you think he is, he’s somewhere in between’ and that is football management.

“If you put Pochettino, or you put Pep [Guardiola] or [Jurgen] Klopp and let them go and manage Brighton or manage Norwich or Sheffield United, they’re not gonna go and put them in the top six, it doesn’t work that way.

“It’s about the players. He [Pochettino] has got the good players but at the moment there’s been hiccups – one of two of them are not playing to their real potential or as good as they can.”