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Crab Lungs

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Absolutely reeks of Harry's agent/press chums seeding bullsh it to put the wind up QPR and get their man a few more quid.

 

Yup, definitely. There is absolutely no way he'd go to Everton. Too far from home but more importantly, they've got a very, very, very tight budget.

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BlakeySFC

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I see Harry's on the charm offensive again.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jun/05/harry-redknapp-board-qpr-transfers

 

Poor Tony Fernandez. First he gets steamrollered by agents then he hires Harry to sort out the mess. A bit like setting your hair on fire and trying to put it out with a hammer.

 

Sky Sports News had him on TV today saying much the same, also said he wanted to bring in Wayne Bridge from Man City on a free...that man never learns, Bridge is a 32 year old has-been.

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david in sweden

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Already looking for an "out" then.

 

 

......you sound surprised Crab Lungs.

 

'appy 'arry has had a long list of memorable " one-liners " in his career.....How many " spiritual homes " does he have, anyway? ...... Shangri-La ?..Nirvana....?

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david in sweden

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Sky Sports News had him on TV today saying much the same, also said he wanted to bring in Wayne Bridge from Man City on a free...that man never learns, Bridge is a 32 year old has-been.

 

 

QPR?..........we're talking Championship football now, Blakey......a 32 year-old (with his background) might be regarded as...... " approaching his prime ".....

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Saint Without a Halo

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From Sky

 

"Harry Redknapp has warned that he must be allowed to change the QPR squad or he could walk away from the club.

 

The Rangers manager wants to build a team capable of making an instant return to the Premier League, and he is looking to make former England left-back Wayne Bridge his first post-relegation signing.

 

Redknapp is keen to speak to club owner Tony Fernandes over bringing in Bridge, whose Manchester City contract is about to expire, but is adamant that he must have the final say over rejigging QPR's playing roster.

 

"If we don't change it, and I don't get the players that I want to bring in, then we have not got a chance," Redknapp declared.

 

"You can't have other people have a say at all, I'm a football person and I've got a staff around me of football people.

 

Redknapp - QPR need to back me

"We've got to make the decisions, and if we make the right ones we will have a chance. Otherwise, if other people want to make decisions we've got no chance.

 

"If I don't get that then I wouldn't stick around. I'll speak to Tony Fernandes, they've got to back me with the people I want. I'm not asking him to spend money, I'm looking at a couple of free transfers.

 

"I'm trying to get Wayne Bridge, I thought he did fantastically well with Brighton, he'd be a good left-back for us. He's got great experience, looks in great shape and is a player I want to bring in on a free.

 

"I'm hoping that's the first deal I can do. Tony is away, but I'll speak to him today and see if we can get the deal done."

 

 

 

Seems he's up to the same tricks about the squad not being good enough even for the championship, QPR will be ruined for years!

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Colinjb

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Is there anything more annoying than the phrase he's a "football man" or I'm a "football person".

 

Yes Arry you are only a football person and that is why you destroyed Portsmouth and Southampton because you don't have a clue about building for the future. Quick fix Arry brings in old players on big wages which results in a promotion and then leaves the club in trouble battle relegation with no assists. QPR should ditch Arry and build for the future. Hopefully a "business person" will see he is a Muppet. It's a real shame that he wasn't able to get Bale that loan move to Forest that he so badly wanted.

 

Steve James

 

Something from the F365 mailbox today. Thought it needed sharing.

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Lallana's Left Peg

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QPR have every right to want to shift the high earners before Redknapp burdens them with more crap.

 

And lets not forget Redknapp also signed a left back in January that he hasn't played once.

 

I can only think Redknapp is desperately trying to create a situation where it looks like he is forced to leave QPR but everyone can see through his tired routine. Class A ***** whose managerial career is slowly dying in the most satisfying fashion.

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Pugwash

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Why does Redknapp automatically assume Bridge would wish to sign for him, rather than someone like Nigel? Clearly angry over losing his cut of the deal.

 

The man's so far up himself he can see the back of his own teeth. :x

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Sour Mash

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I can only think Redknapp is desperately trying to create a situation where it looks like he is forced to leave QPR but everyone can see through his tired routine. .

That's exactly what he's doing. And I wouldn't be surprised if Fernandes is using it as a tool to encourage his resignation.
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Sour Mash

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Let's face it, they won't be short of managers who are slightly more confident in their ability to guide a squad of experienced, high quality players to promotion.
For the right manager, with a bit of hard work and patience, there is definitely a very good opportunity to do something at QPR, looks like Fernandes is sticking around for a while.
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Saint Without a Halo

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Harry is a "football man" who seems to want total control of others peoples money. Money he then wastes lumbering them with a long term legacy of has beens on expensive long term contracts. It is time chairmen saw through this and made him responsible for getting the club budgets back in shape before allowing him to spend more!

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Colinjb

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If I was Fernandes I would call the old ****s bluff. Let him walk, no pay off then and he can get a decent manager in who is willing to build them up into a decent side unlike Arry who will just apply a quick fix and hope it works.

 

I have a feeling that Gus Poyet will end up there before the start of the season.

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Biggest emperor's new clothes since the emperor's new clothes. Media love him because he gives good quote but is an absolute disaster area when it comes to crippling clubs with debts. Bet Spurs are only just seeing the figures. Thank God he didn't get the Engerland job. He would have been confused about transfers.

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Viking Warrior

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Redkrapp . certainly has an attitude problem . I wonder what the real reason was why he left spurs etc > Obviously didnt like lowe . who liked to keep his fingers on the purse srtrings. How many clubs has he got relegated . Mind you I think he might have been a better england manager than hodgson but only just

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SaintDan

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Another example of how he has wiped his time with us from his memory....

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4961029/Harry-Redknapp-Let-me-buy-who-I-want-and-Ill-carry-the-can-if-it-goes-wrong.html

 

"When I was last in the Championship, with Ports-mouth, we did not chuck money at transfers."

 

Last time you were in the Championship it was with Southampton you moron!

 

Typical Redknapp as well, let me do it and ill take the responsibility. How? Will he pay for all the players he's wrongly signed? Will he cover Samba and Remy's wages. Or will he just do another article the week after he leaves QPR with the headline Ooops.

 

He won't get a top 10 prem job any more and I hope to God that he doesn't get the England job after Roy, I would really question whether or not to support my country if he was the manager as I'd be desperate to see him fail!

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beatlesaint

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Tony Fernandes must easily be one of the worst chairmans in english football. What a tosser.

 

No, I think he is a fan who is desperate for his club to hit the big time and has been totally shafted by Redknapp to the point he cant see the wood for the trees.

 

Like a frightened rabbit in old arry's headlights.

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No, I think he is a fan who is desperate for his club to hit the big time and has been totally shafted by Redknapp to the point he cant see the wood for the trees.

 

Like a frightened rabbit in old arry's headlights.

 

He wasn't/isn't a QPR fan.

 

Claimed to be a West Ham fan at one point but is likely not a fan of any English Club, beyond any he wants to own.

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FloridaMarlin

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His column in the Sunday Sun today really is a work of art.

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...oes-wrong.html

 

Of course, when you read it from his point of view, it's all so reasonable, isn't it?

 

A mate of mine who dealt with Redcrap on a daily basis when he was Bournemouth manager sussed him out and summed him up, even that far back.

 

He said: "You always know when Redknapp is lying when he talks. His lips move."

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Window Cleaner

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His column in the Sunday Sun today really is a work of art.

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...oes-wrong.html

 

Of course, when you read it from his point of view, it's all so reasonable, isn't it?

 

A mate of mine who dealt with Redcrap on a daily basis when he was Bournemouth manager sussed him out and summed him up, even that far back.

 

He said: "You always know when Redknapp is lying when he talks. His lips move."

 

what do you expect, if he wasn't a football manager he'd be an East End barrow boy....or a futures trader...probably the same thing nowadays............:D:rolleyes:..

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Patrick Collins obviously isn't a fan of Saggy

 

Redknapp's threat to the suits is far from fearsome

 

The football season had been over for at least 15 minutes before Harry Redknapp took aim at the people running Queens Park Rangers.

 

The old chap is apparently outraged that certain suits are taking a keen interest in the club's transfer activities.

 

'You can't let other people have a say,' he declares. 'I'm a football person and I've a staff around me of football people. We've got to make the decisions.'

 

 

Shouting the odds: Queens Park Rangers manager Harry Redknapp

 

Now, if this were Sir Alex Ferguson in his glory days at Old Trafford, or Pep Guardiola, when he worked his wonders at the Nou Camp, then we might understand the lofty indignation.

 

But this is Harry Redknapp, at Loftus Road. This is the manager who took over at QPR when they were bottom of the Premier League after 12 matches.

 

And preserved that bottom place when the season ended, 26 games later.

 

He may argue, as he frequently did, that the previous manager, Mark Hughes, had bequeathed him a job lot of expensive dross.

 

But the fact is that Redknapp broke the club transfer record twice when spending £20million in the January transfer window.

 

And still they finished 14 points from safety. A less confident man might feel the odd twinge of self-doubt after such a performance but Redknapp is 'a football person' and, as such, his judgment is beyond challenge. He demands the right to make his own decisions.

 

And he says: 'If I don't get that, then I wouldn't stick around.'

 

I suspect he intends it as a fearsome threat, designed to bring the Rangers board to heel. I also suspect he is quite wrong.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2338083/Patrick-Collins-The-inequality-game--93-27-TV-billions-goes-Premier-League.html

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