Harry Redknapp insists he is "very happy" at Portsmouth despite being on a shortlist of three at Tottenham to replace under-fire boss Martin Jol.

Redknapp's name stands alongside Sevilla coach Juande Ramos and Italy's out-of-work World Cup winning boss Marcello Lippi on the list drawn up by Tottenham officials who believe Jol won't be able to deliver Champions' League football to White Hart Lane.

A Tottenham insider confirmed: "What the club want is a manager who can outwit and out-think the likes of Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho."

But Redknapp who walked out on Pompey to become Saints boss in 2004 and then sensationally returned down the road a year later, allayed fears he was about to up and leave for the bright lights of London. He was top of Tottenham's list last season when Jol was suffering a bad trot but, although his name has reappeared now, Redknapp said: "I'm not a person who likes change.

"I've had the chance to manage very big clubs before. It would have been nice to have managed one of the big four and had their budgets, but I'm very happy here.

"You'd think I'd never been offered a big job. If we're talking the big six or seven, there are one or two I've been offered.

"But I left here once and came back. I had ten years at Bournemouth, eight years at West Ham. If I'm somewhere, I'm happy.

"The money doesn't matter and I'm not on an ego trip."

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy and vice-chairman Paul Kemsley were said to have lost patience with Jol when, after giving him £40m to spend this summer, he said that a third successive fifth-place finish in the Premiership would represent "progress."

Ramos is the favoured choice but will rule himself out after this weekend, when the Spanish season gets under way.