Redknapp to discuss new Tottenham contract

Redknapp has led Tottenham to the Champions League (GETTY IMAGES)

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy is expected to sit down with Harry Redknapp over the next month and agree a new long-term deal for the manager who has delivered his club Champions League football for the first time.

Redknapp, 63, has one year left on the contract he signed when he took over from Juande Ramos in October 2008 and is eager not to go into the new season with his future unresolved beyond next summer. Preliminary discussions about a new deal took place over Christmas but Redknapp indicated that he would rather wait until the end of the season.

Having secured a place in the Champions League third-round qualifiers at the very least, with the outside possibility they could overhaul Arsenal and win a place in the group stages, Redknapp is now in a strong position.

Tottenham's 1-0 victory over Manchester City on Wednesday means that at worst they will finish in fourth position in the Premier League, which would put them in the final play-off round of the Champions League qualifiers. There is a possibility that they will have to face Ajax Amsterdam, coached by the former Tottenham manager Martin Jol, who finished second in the Dutch Eredivisie and enter the qualifying stage one round earlier.

Should Arsenal lose to Fulham on Sunday and Spurs beat Burnley then Redknapp's team will claim third place. However, it is understood that Roy Hodgson will field a considerably weaker Fulham side with Wednesday's Europa League final against Atletico Madrid in Hamburg in mind.