Spurs chairman Daniel Levy has scrapped the system of sporting director Damien Comolli recruiting players, with the Frenchman dismissed along with head coach Juande Ramos and his assistants.

Redknapp will now draw up his own targets for Levy to negotiate deals for, and he will also bring in Kevin Bond as a coach and assistants, although he has ruled out his son, Jamie, returning to White Hart Lane.

"The chairman will do the deals but I'll pick the players," Redknapp said after taking to the dugout for the 2-0 win over Bolton on his first day at work. "I wouldn't let anyone else buy my players.

"I'm not going to ask him to go and buy Ronaldo for me. There'll be some players out there in January who he'll bring in for us."

Redknapp could bring up to two assistants to White Hart Lane, and he added: "There are a couple of ex-Tottenham people who I think have great futures in the game. I would like to talk to them about coming here."

Victory over Bolton capped a dramatic day at Spurs where Redknapp was signed at a cost of £5million in compensation to Portsmouth.

Levy admitted that he had previously targeted Redknapp, with a deal close to being struck when Martin Jol went two months without a league win.

"I could have come here maybe 18 months ago, in all honesty," said Redknapp. "I nearly came here, it was a long story but things happened.

"I nearly went to Newcastle and people said I didn't want to take on the challenge of a big club. I felt that once this happened (with Spurs again), I would have regretted it for the rest of my life."

Reserve-team coach Clive Allen picked the team that defeated Bolton courtesy of goals from Roman Pavlyuchenko and a Darren Bent penalty. It did not lift Spurs off the foot of the table but confidence appeared to be returning.

Redknapp met the team in the morning and was on the bench to make substitutions, and he received a huge ovation when he stood up in the technical area.

"We don't have time for me to sit in the stands," he added. "We had to get on with it.

"The record was eight games, two points, so you're in trouble. Anything else (apart from survival) is a bonus. The priority has to be league points."

Bolton boss Gary Megson had to endure abusive chants from his own supporters towards the end of the defeat.

"Everyone is giving it their best shot, frustrations come out and they've chosen to react in the way they have done," Megson said.

"The players, myself and everyone in that dressing room have an opinion but that is where it will stay."

Megson also had Gavin McCann sent off for two bookings, the second on Tom Huddlestone.

"I don't think it was fair," Megson said. "I'm not too far away from it and I didn't see too much contact. I heard the scream and the two didn't go together.

"With the penalty the contact is hardly anything."

Aside from those flashpoints, the focus was totally on Redknapp, whose contract is thought to be over three years.

It has been viewed as his final job, although Redknapp joked: "I've said that too many times before!"