Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Rip Van We Go Again on July 20, 2011, 12:34:14 PM
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As we've been discussing lack of transfer activity somewhat lately, I thought i'd share this little nugget for you involving Harry 'I'm not a fakkkkkin wheeler dealer' Redknapp.
I've been re-reading Tom Bower's 'Broken dreams' book from 2003, in it it's revealed that Redknapp was involved in 134 transfers in his seven years at West Ham.
An incredible amount.
He was also very, very close to a couple of agents.
Say no more, say no more.
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Now come on Fletch, lets not get into this.
He's going to be the next England manager you know, the saviour, the peoples champion. Surely someone considered for such a role can only be whiter than white, can't he? Like that nice Mr Venables.......
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A man of unimpeachable virtue.
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After just 4 games, Redknapp decided to stop playing ex-Villa man Gary Charles, this prompted an hilarious exchange between him and then West Ham chairman Terry Brown.
BROWN 'Is he no good?'
REDKNAPP 'Nah, but what do you expect for fakkkkin £1.2m?'
BROWN 'Well why did you buy him then, we're paying him a million a year in wages.'
REDKNAPP 'Yeah, but they're all fakkkkin getting it.'
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hilts is going to go mental when he sees this. Another thread where Harry Redknapp is mentioned. Worse still, this one's dedicated to him!
You know I'm only kidding hilts. Don't get mad at me ;)
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A man of unimpeachable virtue.
The Rio Ferdinand transfer was good.
He'd been banging on to his chairman and the media saying he wouldn't sell him at any price as he wanted to build the side around him, he then suddenly changed his mind.
Could have been to do with the £300,000 he receieved on condition he never spent the proceeds from his sale.
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After just 4 games, Redknapp decided to stop playing ex-Villa man Gary Charles, this prompted an hilarious exchange between him and then West Ham chairman Terry Brown.
BROWN 'Is he no good?'
REDKNAPP 'Nah, but what do you expect for fakkkkin £1.2m?'
BROWN 'Well why did you buy him then, we're paying him a million a year in wages.'
REDKNAPP 'Yeah, but they're all fakkkkin getting it.'
My missus old man knows Brown quite well, used to play football with him down in London. Says he's a good bloke, but a little bit, erm, "wahey" as they say.
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Good Old 'Arry.
A nods as good as a wink.
I reckon the feller has St Vitus Dance in him.
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Within 15 posts this will turn into a discussion of how Spurs keep their wage bill artifically low by buying image rights.
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I don't think even the wages of the manager of West Ham / Pompey / Saints would be enough to buy one of the top properties in Sandbanks.
Maybe he has other sources of income.
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I don't think even the wages of the manager of West Ham / Pompey / Saints would be enough to buy one of the top properties in Sandbanks.
Maybe he has other sources of income.
I'm pretty sure he bought that property when he was still in charge of lowly Bournemouth.
He raised their wage bill through the roof, as he also did at West Ham and Pompey.
Hmmmm.
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1333: FOOTBALL - BBC Radio 5 live report that Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has confirmed he's interested in signing striker Emmanuel Adebayor from Manchester City.
more bunce in my sky my sahn ;)
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I wonder what the total revenue from those 134 transfers amounted to, and then i wonder what say about 10% of that figure would amount to. Just wondering like.
Barry Fry must have been on a similar deal down the road, didn't he turnover about 51 players in one season.
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I hate the ******.
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nah, nah, mate,
'es sault o' de erf mate,
laves iz granma
;)
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I wonder what the total revenue from those 134 transfers amounted to, and then i wonder what say about 10% of that figure would amount to. Just wondering like.
Barry Fry must have been on a similar deal down the road, didn't he turnover about 51 players in one season.
Fry also got a cut of the Collymore transfer fee when he sold him to Forest.
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Barry Fry must have been on a similar deal down the road, didn't he turnover about 51 players in one season.
Blimey, that's as many as Spud Face's daughter.
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A man of unimpeachable virtue.
The Rio Ferdinand transfer was good.
He'd been banging on to his chairman and the media saying he wouldn't sell him at any price as he wanted to build the side around him, he then suddenly changed his mind.
Could have been to do with the £300,000 he receieved on condition he never spent the proceeds from his sale.
He did spend a fair whack though in the months following. All on terrible, terrible players, most (maybe all) of whom had the same agent.
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On a wider point, it was interesting to hear one of the senior board members of the Lillylivers talking about Modric (and other issues yesterday). Modric still not for sale -though how long that lasts remains to be seen. But she was talking as if the bulk of the spending had been done now, and the targets have been achieved. Of course they managed CL football unlike us (not going to open up that hornets nest again). But it does seem to illustrate that none of these owners (with the exception of Roman and the Arabs at Citeh) view the projects as financial black holes, and are willing to just keep on throwing money at the thing.
I dare say 'arry is frustrated though, he's made a few remarks to that effect over the past few months. I also wonder where all the links to the Chelsea managers job came from in he summer. He was never seriously a contender for that role, you'd feel. Not based on the type of managers they opt for. Yet all the main papers were running with 'arry to Chelsea speculation.
I want to say here and now that anyone who thinks that the loveable scamp would use his fawning media buddies to create these rumours -either to push his case for the Chelsea job or to simply get more leverage at Tottingham is very, very cynical.
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'Arrys recieved more back handers than Lesley Ash and Andre Agassi combined.
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Redknapp is everything that is wrong with the proffesional game!
Corrupt, money grabbing squinty eyed old tosser!!
Got Talksport and Sky sports news on speed dial on his phone and got an opinion on everything!
Used to like him when at West Ham, but what he did to Pompey was an absolute disgrace.
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My spurs supporting mate reckons than 'Arry will either be England manager (or in prison) next season and therefore the club do not want to give him any money this season as they'd prefer the next manager to get the cash.
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My spurs supporting mate reckons than 'Arry will either be England manager (or in prison) next season and therefore the club do not want to give him any money this season as they'd prefer the next manager to get the cash.
He's certainly going to be the England manager.
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He's certainly going to be the England manager.
Or in prison.
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He's certainly going to be the England manager.
Or in prison.
He's going to be the prison manager.
In England.
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who is pascal chimbonda's agent does anyone know? always thought his return to spurs was one of the most bizarre signings in recent times given the amount of full backs at the club at the time. think he only made 3 league appearances second time round there.
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I hate the c***.
This has largely been precisely my view of the man since reading "Broken Dreams". However, I have had to acknowledge his success as a manager in the meantime.
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As much as I don't like him as an individual, I'm struggling to think of a better candidate for the England job when Capello goes
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Arry as England manager would be shite IMO. His greatest asset is wheeling and dealin...ahem, sorry you old crook, I mean 'maynaging a fu'bawl clab's traynsfers'.
Take that away and you take his only discernible talent away.
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Arry as England manager would be shite IMO. His greatest asset is wheeling and dealin...ahem, sorry you old crook, I mean 'maynaging a fu'bawl clab's traynsfers'.
Take that away and you take his only discernible talent away.
Not so, he's a master at telling his players to go run around a bit.
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Arry as England manager would be shite IMO. His greatest asset is wheeling and dealin...ahem, sorry you old crook, I mean 'maynaging a fu'bawl clab's traynsfers'.
Take that away and you take his only discernible talent away.
Not so, he's a master at telling his players to go run around a bit.
Sorry, yes that's right. A masterful tactician and straight as a ruler with it.
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he would be brilliant as England manager. I can just see it now. "well ya see Sepp, I know you fink Messi is an Argy, but his birf stifficat ses he's English, His mom as a ticket dahn the lane. Thats why I'm pikin im. What ya want to see it doo ya. I would send it but xavi just spilled some coffee on the fax, Ill get it too ya when I can. Fact I'll send Inesta round wiv it in a big brown envelope