Fowler backs Redknapp

(GSM) – Liverpool legend Robbie Fowler has backed Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp to take up the vacant managerial position at Anfield.

The former Pompey boss has transformed Spurs from relegation candidates to Champions League qualifiers over the period of 18 months, which gives Fowler the belief that Redknapp could have the same impact at Liverpool.

Benitez left the club last week, just one season into a new five-year contract, after Liverpool finished a lowly seventh in the Premier League.

Big-name candidates such as Guus Hiddink and Jose Mourinho are unavailable after taking new jobs with Turkey and Real Madrid respectively.

Redknapp’s Spurs replaced Liverpool in the Champions League after breaking into the top four ahead of Manchester City.

And Fowler said: “You want someone who has done well in the Premier League and knows how it works so you know, as a top man, why not Harry Redknapp?

“He’s done fantastic with Spurs and he would be a very good manager for Liverpool.

“I’m not saying they’ll go for him but he’s done fantastic at all the clubs he’s been at in the Premier League and so have Martin O’Neill and Roy Hodgson.”

Redknapp has one year left on his current contract at White Hart Lane and Fowler believes Liverpool remain an attractive prospect for any player or manager despite their struggles last season.

“Liverpool underachieved last year and Rafa set himself higher expectations with what came the years before but it was always going to be difficult to match that or beat that,” said Fowler, who has started training this week with his new team-mates at Perth Glory.

“It would be a good job for someone to take on. Liverpool’s a massive club and they have underachieved in the last few years but in terms of world football, there are really not that many bigger clubs.

“We’ve got the chance to get someone in good but it remains to see who there is, because there doesn’t seem to be many out there.”