Harry Redknapp: I’d go back to West Ham for free to try and keep them in Premier League

Harry Redknapp has told talkSPORT he would go back to West Ham for free to try and keep them in the Premier League.

The Hammers are seven points adrift of safety and are in real danger of relegation to the Championship.

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talkSPORT understands that manager Nuno Espirito Santo is at risk of the sack if results do not improve soon.

West Ham have won just three Premier League games all season and could return to the second tier for the first time since 2012.

Espirito Santo’s dismal record at the London Stadium has seen him win just two of his 16 games in charge since replacing Graham Potter in September.

Former Hammers boss Redknapp joined talkSPORT’s Rushden and Baker on Wednesday and said he’d go in and help out if called on.

Redknapp said: “I’d work for nothing. I’d go anywhere if someone rang me up, I’d go and do it for nothing.

“I really would, I’d enjoy it. It’s not the money. I’d enjoy going in and being around the players. I love it.

“Martin O’Neill has gone in [at Celtic] and he knows what he’s doing. He’s experienced, he knows the game. It ain’t rocket science.

“Get the best out of the players you’ve got. You’ve got to get the best out of them. 

“In West Ham’s situation, whoever goes in has got to get the best out of an average group, to be brutal.”

On West Ham’s relegation fears, Redknapp added: “At the moment they don’t look like they’re even capable of scrapping hard enough to stay in the league.

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“I really needs a miracle. There’s only Forest who are within touching distance if they’re going to get out of trouble. I can’t see Leeds, I can’t see Brentford, Sunderland have done fantastic. 

“Who else is going to go?”

Harry Redknapp’s West Ham verdict

Following the 2-1 defeat to Nottingham Forest on Tuesday night, Redknapp took aim at the players.

He criticised the Hammers’ recruitment policy in a scathing verdict on the state of the club.

Redknapp added: “Nuno obviously is coming under fierce criticism and getting the blame, but at the end of the day the players are what they are. 

“People forget, they always end up sacking the manager and there’s no leadership. What can he do?

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“What more can he do? Potter came and he couldn’t get a tune out of them. You can bring who you want in there, you can bring Pep [Guardiola] in with that team. He’s not going to suddenly get them shooting up the league.

“The players are short of quality, they’re not good enough. They’re where they are in the league, that’s how good the players are.”

West Ham’s recruitment has been a constant source of contention, with £27m striker Niclas Fullkrug joining AC Milan on loan.

The Hammers have then signed forwards Taty Castellanos and Pablo for £25.2m and £20m, respectively.

“West Ham have recruited badly,” Redknapp added. “They’ve signed very, very few good players. The players that come in, they go 

The centre forward comes, the German boy, and he never kicks a ball and suddenly his agent comes on, he wants to leave. 

“You know, we’d like him to leave. How do we get rid of him? Who’s going to give us our money back? He’s now gone on loan to Milan.

“The recruitment has been poor and the manager has got no chance. I don’t care who goes in, you can do what you want on the training ground.”

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