Warring Queens Park Rangers players had to be kept apart in an astonishing dressing-room bust-up after their crushing FA Cup defeat by MK Dons at the weekend.
On a day when manager Harry Redknapp claimed the January transfer window had descended into ‘gang warfare’ between rival agents, it emerged a massive division has developed in his QPR dressing room.
Earlier this month Redknapp admitted there was resentment between the old guard and high-earning signings and Sportsmail understands there were two camps after Saturday’s 4-2 defeat.
One witness described the scene as ‘unbelievable’, with players trading insults and threatening to come to blows during a fiery inquest minutes after they were dumped out of the Cup.
QPR sources claimed the incident lasted ‘between 90 seconds and two minutes’ as they argued over the team’s shocking performance.
Redknapp responded to the defeat by labelling the players ‘a disgrace’ after they were beaten by League One opposition, even threatening to kick them out of the club.
As Redknapp prepared for this evening’s Barclays Premier League game with Manchester City, he was trying to bring in more players to give his squad a much-needed lift. Former Blackburn defender Chris Samba, now at Anzhi Makhachkala, is thought to be a top target.
Sources claim the row on Saturday erupted the moment the players returned to the dressing room, with players responding angrily to having their application and desire questioned.
That led to a furious exchange between two players in particular but others took sides. Although some players feared it could get physical, others kept them apart.
Redknapp had already left the dressing room and on Monday his focus was on the madness of the January transfer window.
He claimed agents are working furiously to ‘screw each other’ in every deal, likening the middlemen to the ice-cream sellers in 1980s Glasgow who fought with guns.
Redknapp has signed striker Loic Remy from Marseille for £8million and is pursuing West Bromwich Albion forward Peter Odemwingie and Porto defender Rolando as well as Samba. He will today travel to Wembley for a work-permit hearing into South Korean left back Yun Suk-young.
Redknapp said: ‘I’ve never seen anything like it. Every agent seems to be trying to screw each other. It’s like gang warfare out there.
‘If you’ve got a deal for a player, another agent will try to scupper that. It’s unbelievable. They’re fighting for big money, that’s the problem.
‘If someone can see themselves muscling in on a deal... it’s a bit like the ice-cream sellers in Glasgow. Someone has nicked their pitch. Someone’s going to shoot them or something!
‘I have left it to the chairman, it was doing my head in. It’s crazy.’
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On a day when manager Harry Redknapp claimed the January transfer window had descended into ‘gang warfare’ between rival agents, it emerged a massive division has developed in his QPR dressing room.
Earlier this month Redknapp admitted there was resentment between the old guard and high-earning signings and Sportsmail understands there were two camps after Saturday’s 4-2 defeat.
One witness described the scene as ‘unbelievable’, with players trading insults and threatening to come to blows during a fiery inquest minutes after they were dumped out of the Cup.
QPR sources claimed the incident lasted ‘between 90 seconds and two minutes’ as they argued over the team’s shocking performance.
Redknapp responded to the defeat by labelling the players ‘a disgrace’ after they were beaten by League One opposition, even threatening to kick them out of the club.
As Redknapp prepared for this evening’s Barclays Premier League game with Manchester City, he was trying to bring in more players to give his squad a much-needed lift. Former Blackburn defender Chris Samba, now at Anzhi Makhachkala, is thought to be a top target.
Sources claim the row on Saturday erupted the moment the players returned to the dressing room, with players responding angrily to having their application and desire questioned.
That led to a furious exchange between two players in particular but others took sides. Although some players feared it could get physical, others kept them apart.
Redknapp had already left the dressing room and on Monday his focus was on the madness of the January transfer window.
He claimed agents are working furiously to ‘screw each other’ in every deal, likening the middlemen to the ice-cream sellers in 1980s Glasgow who fought with guns.
Redknapp has signed striker Loic Remy from Marseille for £8million and is pursuing West Bromwich Albion forward Peter Odemwingie and Porto defender Rolando as well as Samba. He will today travel to Wembley for a work-permit hearing into South Korean left back Yun Suk-young.
Redknapp said: ‘I’ve never seen anything like it. Every agent seems to be trying to screw each other. It’s like gang warfare out there.
‘If you’ve got a deal for a player, another agent will try to scupper that. It’s unbelievable. They’re fighting for big money, that’s the problem.
‘If someone can see themselves muscling in on a deal... it’s a bit like the ice-cream sellers in Glasgow. Someone has nicked their pitch. Someone’s going to shoot them or something!
‘I have left it to the chairman, it was doing my head in. It’s crazy.’
link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...EXCLUSIVE.html
THE DAILY FAIL!!!!!!
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