Harry Redknapp is back after a three-and-a-half years break

Harry Redknapp is back on the bench. One of the favorite coaches in England, a great guy of lasting value, got a job with Bournemouth. There he will be something between an adviser and an associate to Jonathan Woodgate until management finds a long-term solution.

Redknapp's return came at Woodgate's invitation, as the former stopper highly values ​​the coaching and human qualities of an experienced football manager, with whom he worked at Tottenham from 2008 to 2011.

Woodgate replaced Jason Tyndall on February 1st after Cherries saw four defeats in a row in their Championship campaign. He was told that he would be a temporary solution, and that the club would continue the search for their long-term head of the staff. As some information say, that search could last until the end of the season, so Woodgate decided to invite Redknapp to help him with his experience and ideas.

Harry Redknapp has more than enough to say. He coached Bournemouth at the beginning of his managerial career (1983-1992), was an advisor to the Board of Directors at Vitality Stadium (2012), in the meantime led West Ham, Portsmouth, Southampton, Tottenham, Queens Park Rangers, was an adviser in Derby, coach of Jordan national team, and last had a job in Birmingham from April to September 2017.

Working as an assistant to several coaching staffs is not foreign to Redknapp. In January 2016, Redknapp made a return to football as a director at Wimborne Town. In March 2016, he was named as a football advisor for Derby County until the end of the 2015–16 season. On 29 April 2016, it was announced that Redknapp was to join Australian side Central Coast Mariners as a football consultant. In October 2017, following his departure from Birmingham City, Redknapp briefly joined League Two club Yeovil Town in a voluntary advisory role to manager Darren Way.