Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy admits he spoke with Harry Redknapp last year about the manager's job when Martin Jol was under pressure.

Levy said: "I can't give details but I'm sorry that, for whatever reason, we didn't appoint Harry then. It would be unfair of me to give details on the historical discussions with Harry.

"Perhaps we wouldn't be in this position if we had. I hope he can be a top-four manager but he has never managed a top-four club so you are never going to know until, hopefully, we get there.

"We have confidence Harry has every chance to get us there.

"We went for what we considered to be the best manager but other people may disagree."