Harry Redknapp: Berahino must attract clubs like Tottenham and Chelsea by performing on the pitch

What Saido Berahino should do is shut up and start performing. ‘Liking’ Twitter posts suggesting he will leave West Brom for Tottenham or Chelsea in January makes him look bad.

He can’t get in West Brom’s team at the moment. If he starts scoring goals, people will take notice of him in the best way rather than every time he opens his mouth spouting off about what he’s going to do next.

It’s the same for Jack Grealish at Aston Villa: stop getting sidetracked and start dedicating yourself to playing football. They can both have great careers. The fact Berahino keeps going on Twitter every five minutes will put clubs off him, if anything. Managers will look at it and think “Do I really need this hassle all the time? What if he doesn’t like me? How will I control him?”

He needs to make clubs want to buy him by delivering on the pitch.

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GOOD LUCK, GARY, BUT YOU’VE A LOT TO LEARN

Nobody has an idea whether Gary Neville is a good coach, let alone a good manager.

I know he’s had a coaching role with England but he was involved in planning what turned out to be one of the most disastrous World Cup campaigns in living memory.

He’s a top pundit and speaks very well but that doesn’t automatically translate to getting your message across properly to the players.

When you are a coach, you are everybody’s friend. As a manager, you have to create a distance from that and gain their respect, which does not always happen. A lot of good coaches don’t make successful managers for that very reason.

Going out to Valencia will be a great experience for him — last night’s 2-0 defeat at home to Lyon was a nightmare start — but I was surprised he only signed a  five-month deal. You’d think there would be more to it than that because a manager’s life expectancy is so short anyway. Agreeing a contract lasting a few months might make it difficult to impose himself on the players because they will think he is just passing through.

I hope Gary does well out there but he certainly has it all to prove.