‘I have big-name players who believe they’re better than they are, who bang on my door insisting that I should play them,’ said 65-year-old Redknapp. ‘Well, they had their chance and they blew it. I made nine changes from the team who drew at West Ham last week. This was a team that had gone five games unbeaten, that had won at Chelsea and drawn against Spurs and West Ham, but even though I made lots of changes I believed, absolutely, it was good enough to beat the MK Dons. I wanted to win, don’t get me wrong. Look at the players I picked. We’re talking about signings from Manchester United and Real Madrid in Park, Fabio and Granero. We’re talking about experienced pros like Ferdinand, an England goalkeeper in Green. Surely they should have been too good for a team two divisions below them. I thought we weren’t too bad up to half time, but conceded two dreadfully sloppy goals. When we conceded the third, which was offside, our confidence went completely. You can’t give away two such sloppy goals as we did. We created a mountain to climb that only got higher. What it shows is that the result and the performance answer a lot of questions. Not to me. I already knew the answers, but to those who wanted to see certain players picked. They gave the answers. I’m going to need to shift some players out of this club this week and get a few in. If I can do that we’ll stay in the Premier League......."
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Perhaps Faurlin fans posting on here? Harry was as angry as the die hardest fan today. We won't see any of those eleven players appear for us again bar Fabio, perhaps Bothroyd, and, sadly, probably Mackie.......Comment
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Very worrying, WillComment
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Hard to sleep after a heavy defeat at the best of times. But today is something else entirely. Glad I'm not the only one who is literally losing sleep haha.Comment
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Having spoken to Spurs and Pompey fans today, it seems Harry is well known for deflecting all blame away from his tactics, and the fact that he picked the players that didn't perform when one of his teams loses.
Let's see where we are after Tuesday's match and the window closing on Thursday.
Redknapp has spent £8m on our record signing so far, he's not exactly being hamstrung. If the board have decided that a couple of the deals he wanted where a little too much, isn't that kind of restraint what we have lacked in accumulating the squad we have now, and that we're now moaning about?Comment
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I'm sure he wasn't referring to the owners as he said they'd been backing him to the hilt in the press conf and doing everything they could to bring players in.Comment
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Come on guys it's obvious he is talking about the players and agents. Tony is backing him he forked out 8mill for Remy and was willing to pay 8m for m'villa just happens the Russians offfered 4mil a year after tax with each year it rising.Comment
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