Dubai: The only way England can class next summer’s World Cup a success is if they win the tournament, says former Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp.
“You want to win trophies,” said the 70-year-old Englishman, who was overlooked for the England job in 2012, speaking to Gulf News on the sidelines of the Swing Against Cancer Golf Series finale at Jumeirah Golf Estates on Thursday.
“Getting to the quarters, I wouldn’t say is a success, it would be OK, but I think it’s time England won a World Cup,” he said of the 1966 champions.
“We’ve got loads of talented young players and we have to get the best out of them, and we have to work and find a way of playing to put us back up there among the best in the world. And I think now that there’s an emergence of three or four young players coming through that we can build a team around, hopefully we can start getting back to winning. But until we win a trophy I will never look at it as a success.
“We finish top of our group and qualify no problem, but when a World Cup comes around we haven’t achieved much,” he said of England, who failed to get out of their group in 2014.
“I still couldn’t stand here and say I think they’ll win next summer, but I think they’ll do OK. They’ve got some good young talented players coming through but as far as winning it, they are maybe not ready yet.”
