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Redknapp's Autobiography

Jumpers said:
I think what Redknapp is alluding to is that these guys don't understand football. I dare say he is right!

I don't understand why people release autobiographies whilst there career is still going on though. Talk about career suicide.....
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Totally agree. I can't stand Joey Barton, but he was bang on when he criticised the England players who released books just after the 2006 World Cup: "England did nothing in that World Cup, so why were they bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals. I played like ****. Here's my book'."
 
Modric THFC said:
What i dont get about the jockey story is why was Redknapp giving him money or whatever in the first place? Why did he feel ripped only when he found out he wasnt a jockey. What ****ing difference does it make. Even if he was a jockey he was still taking advantage of him. They were never mates. Why did Redknapp treat him as such?
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It's very handy to have a good friend riding a clear favourite.
 
Jumpers said:
The perception that we played long ball when Crouch played still winds me up. We did not play long ball when Crouch played. We had the ability to mix it up and right now I actually wish we had a decent target man who we could bring on when we are struggling to break down teams. Crouch is a far better player than he gets credit for, simply because his technique is eccentric.
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Nice euphemisms.

Call it 'mixing it up' or 'using a target man' if you like, but a turd by any other name...
 
about playing for England...........

When I was at Tottenham I had plenty of players who said, ‘I don’t want to play, pull me out of the squad, I don’t want to go.’

I’m sure it is different with the older players. I can’t imagine Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard or Ashley Cole not wanting to turn out for their country, but I’ve known a lot of younger ones that weren’t interested.

Times have changed. My generation would have given their right arm just to be named in the squad, but the younger ones aren’t steeped in that tradition. They can’t be bothered.

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:lol: what a gobsh!te he is
 
Jumpers said:
The perception that we played long ball when Crouch played still winds me up. We did not play long ball when Crouch played. We had the ability to mix it up and right now I actually wish we had a decent target man who we could bring on when we are struggling to break down teams. Crouch is a far better player than he gets credit for, simply because his technique is eccentric.
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yes he is performing wonders at Stoke.....i bet they are deliriously ecstatic they signed him 8-[
 
indianspur said:
yes he is performing wonders at Stoke.....i bet they are deliriously ecstatic they signed him 8-[
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To be fair, Messi himself would be hard pushed to shine in a team managed by Pulis or Hughes. I think if you play to Crouch's strengths he is a great player - neither of them did (do).
 
indianspur said:
about playing for England...........

When I was at Tottenham I had plenty of players who said, ‘I don’t want to play, pull me out of the squad, I don’t want to go.’

I’m sure it is different with the older players. I can’t imagine Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard or Ashley Cole not wanting to turn out for their country, but I’ve known a lot of younger ones that weren’t interested.

Times have changed. My generation would have given their right arm just to be named in the squad, but the younger ones aren’t steeped in that tradition. They can’t be bothered.

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:lol: what a gobsh!te he is
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I can fully believe that 'certain' Spurs players have done this in the past. I think it would be very naive of you to think its never happened with any of our players.
 
I don't think Indianspur is questioning the truth of what Redknapp is saying there tbf
 
billyiddo said:
I don't think Indianspur is questioning the truth of what Redknapp is saying there tbf
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im not :) its more about Redknapp revealing things that are better not said...its just highly embarrassing
 
Jordinho said:
The piece on the fake jockey portrays Redknapp as a complete idiot and someone who has far too much going on to be fully focused on his job. I've worked for similar people, always on the phone about unrelated stuff, and it's a ****ing nightmare. It's impossible to be the best you can at your job when your more concerned about betting tips and getting people into hospitality and that's probably just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Redknapp.
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This was always my biggest complaint about him.
 
Modric THFC said:
What i dont get about the jockey story is why was Redknapp giving him money or whatever in the first place? Why did he feel ripped only when he found out he wasnt a jockey. What ****ing difference does it make. Even if he was a jockey he was still taking advantage of him. They were never mates. Why did Redknapp treat him as such?
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Redknapp knows football. But other than that, he is apparently extremely gullible. But he is also a very down to earth generous bloke who will chat to literally anyone. I have a mate that met him at a function and jokingly asked Redknapp to buy him a drink. So Redknapp did and then spent the next hour chatting to him about football....and buying him more drinks. My mate's an electrician.

If Redknapp hadn't got into football he'd have been a market trader or a used car salesman I am sure of it. And he'd be one of those guys that most people liked, but one of those guys who also did most people's head in. He is simply old school from an era where people in the game could relate and socialise to people out of the game.
 
Jumpers said:
He turns 33 this season, so he is hardly the same player he was at Liverpool is he? And I'd imagine most Stoke fans are aware of this.
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wait, didnt Liverpool sell him?

Plus he has been at Stoke for a couple of years. At the age of 30 and all his experience he was at the peak of his powers and yet has been an unmitigated flop.
 
indianspur said:
wait, didnt Liverpool sell him?

Plus he has been at Stoke for a couple of years. At the age of 30 and all his experience he was at the peak of his powers and yet has been an unmitigated flop.
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What makes you say that? He has played a lot of games for them?

Not that it really matters. All that really matters was that he was a big success when he played for us.
 
Jumpers said:
Not a fan of Mark Falco then? Chivers?

Peter Crouch was a very a good player and proved it in his career.
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Nothing wrong with being the shape of a target man, it's how they're used. And no, I'm not a fan of ye olde English Wimbledonball.

Crouch was about as far from a great player as someone who doesn't have the surname of Rasiak can be. And far from proving what you say, he spent his career being taller than people and spazzing the ball off his shin (when he managed not to kick his own foot).
 
And he's back with more...

In the second part of a serialisation of his forthcoming autobiography, Redknapp has revealed in the Daily Mail the part he played in transforming Bale from a talented young player to the superstar he is today.

He managed Bale during his time in charge of Tottenham Hotspur and insists he never had any doubts about his ability, although it was necessary to toughen him up.

Redknapp said: "There is some right old rubbish talked about Gareth Bale's time with me at Tottenham. Was I ever going to sell Bale? No. Was I going to loan him? No.

"Whatever faults I may have, I do know a player. I would never sell Gareth. All he needed was to be toughened up to emerge as a star player.


"We had to tease that combative streak out of him because, at that time, he was regarded as a left-back and was up against Benoit Assou-Ekotto, one of the best in the Premier League. Gareth seemed too soft to be a defender so we decided to try him further forward.

"He drove me mad in training. Technically, he was outstanding but he always seemed to be playing with his hair. It was never right. He'd be flicking the fringe or wiping it out of his eyes and I would be going quietly mad, just watching. 'Gareth, leave your barnet alone! Gareth! Stop touching your hair!'

"It was the same pattern every morning: Gareth would tumble and stay there, and they'd all go running over. In the end I told them just to leave him alone.

"Don't worry,' I said, 'he'll be fine in two minutes. If it is anything urgent we'll soon know'. That's what they did and, as predicted, Gareth got up, got on with it and got better and better."

Bale spent most of his time under Redknapp on the left wing and really came to the attention of a European audience with his performances against Inter Milan in the UEFA Champions League.

Redknapp recalled: "I predicted he would be our Cristiano Ronaldo. And that's just what he was. I don't think I have ever seen one player terrify a team so completely as Bale did Inter Milan.

"I felt sorry for their Brazilian right-back. It was embarrassing. By the end of it the fans were singing, 'Taxi for Maicon,' and I don't think his career has ever recovered."

While Bale enjoyed the finest season of his career last term under Andre Villas-Boas after being given more freedom in a central role, Redknapp remembers when he first gave the player the opportunity to play in such a position.

He said: "I had talked with our coaches for a number of months about using Gareth this way because teams were crowding him out on the left flank, putting so much traffic in his way that it was just getting harder and harder.

"I remember the new plan coming together against Norwich City on December 27, 2011. He was magnificent, scoring twice as we won 2-0.

"Unfortunately, Gareth's switch then coincided with a few dingdongy results for us and a few people, looking for easy answers, put two and two together and ran out of fingers.

"Of course, a year later when he was scoring for fun in that position in Andre Villas-Boas' team, it was hailed as a genius move."

Biggest test
Bale sealed a record-breaking move from Spurs to Real Madrid this summer and Redknapp is interested to see how he will cope with the extra scrutiny of playing for one of the world's most high-profile clubs, admitting that his confidence could suffer if his partnership with Ronaldo does not flourish.


Queens Park Rangers manager Redknapp explained: "His biggest test will be to step out of the shadow of Cristiano Ronaldo with confidence. That won't be easy.

"Ronaldo is a huge star at Madrid and will probably want to take nine out of 10 free-kicks - at least. Gareth will have to assert himself and that will require a strong mind.

"It is a tricky balancing act. He will have to be ready for the matches when he goes it alone, has a shot, misses and Ronaldo starts throwing his arms up in the air.

"His relationship with Ronaldo is the key to it all, because if the football is going well then all the added stresses are a minor irritation and nothing more.


"If Ronaldo feels threatened by Gareth's arrival, Madrid could be a lonely place so he will need to lean a lot on Ancelotti, who speaks good English, and Paul Clement, Carlo's assistant, who is English.

"Madrid must guard against Gareth falling into the role of support act. He had a little trouble adjusting to the bigger environment of Tottenham after leaving Southampton and this is 10 times as great as that move.

"If I have a worry it is that I remember the days when Gareth's confidence was draining fast at Spurs and there were genuine fears he might not make it. He wasn't the strongest of characters back then and he cannot be allowed to fall into that same negative state of mind.

"The positive is that Gareth has grown a lot since his earliest days at White Hart Lane. His performances improved but so did his attitude.

"He has to take that maturity to Madrid, though, or it will be hard."



http://www.football365.com/tottenha...helped-to-toughen-up-Gareth-Bale-at-Tottenham
 
Jumpers said:
What makes you say that? He has played a lot of games for them?

Not that it really matters. All that really matters was that he was a big success when he played for us.
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Whoa there jumpers I think stating that he was a big success for us overplays your hand. If he was he would not have been sold so readily in his prime. He Did a job, occasionally well but mostly poorly. We upgraded him as soon as we could.
 
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