F*** Off Harry Redknapp

[IJM]

The way to play mind games is to cleverly pick at the threads of truth.

What Harry has done there is to spew out the first driveling thought that crossed his mind. I thought he was cleverer than that.

[Dim Tim]

I've never really known him to play mind games with other managers before now either, well other than the odd dig at Wenger, but they've always seemed half respectable.

Not sure why he's got so much beef with Rafa all of a sudden. In such an unclassy manner too.

[Shaggy]

I don't think he's got a beef with Rafa, surely not. Unless Jamie's got in his ear, in which case it is entirely plausible.

But no I don't think he has a beef, I just think he's ignorant of the facts.

[Leyton388]

He talks **** anyway and i could never understand a word when he was in Star Wars.

[Fredo]

I don't think he's got a beef with Rafa, surely not. Unless Jamie's got in his ear, in which case it is entirely plausible.

But no I don't think he has a beef, I just think he's ignorant of the facts.

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[merv]

Harry is a thief and this has been proven, the press call him a wheeler dealer but this just means thief to any one with half a brain, now he's showing sympathy for two proper thieves because he can relate to them in a way

[Assassin]

The Baggy faced ugly **** can go and **** himself

[Fredo]

Link

Who is the nation’s “Most Ridiculous Redknapp”?
Is it Louise, the one who finds Tim Lovejoy funny? Is it Jamie, the one who superglues his trousers to the arms of his chair? Or is it Harry, the one who thinks Liverpool fans have been monumentally ungrateful to the benign benefactor that is Tom Hicks?
“In all of this, I have utmost sympathy for the Reds’ owners, George Gillett and Tom Hicks,” wrote Redknapp this morning, in his column in Merseyside’s favourite paper. “All they seem to have done is plough a fortune into the place and they stand to lose a fortune when they sell it. But, for all that, all they get is grief week-in, week-out. It’s not often you’ll hear a manager stick up for a chairman or chairmen but I’d love to know what the two Americans have done that is so wrong.”
Liverpool fans, who have seen their club taken to the brink of administration under the Americans, will no doubt tell Harry exactly what “they have done that is so wrong” when they travel to White Hart Lane next month. And they’ll also be remarkably keen that Rafa Benitez – not mentioned, but clearly blamed by Redknapp – has his own say point when Spurs travel to Inter next week.
Perhaps we should give Harry the benefit of the doubt though. After all, if anyone’s the expert on football clubs and administration…

[Craig_H]

Who is the nation’s “Most Ridiculous Redknapp”?
Is it Louise, the one who finds Tim Lovejoy funny? Is it Jamie, the one who superglues his trousers to the arms of his chair? Or is it Harry, the one who thinks Liverpool fans have been monumentally ungrateful to the benign benefactor that is Tom Hicks?
“In all of this, I have utmost sympathy for the Reds’ owners, George Gillett and Tom Hicks,” wrote Redknapp this morning, in his column in Merseyside’s favourite paper. “All they seem to have done is plough a fortune into the place and they stand to lose a fortune when they sell it. But, for all that, all they get is grief week-in, week-out. It’s not often you’ll hear a manager stick up for a chairman or chairmen but I’d love to know what the two Americans have done that is so wrong.”
Liverpool fans, who have seen their club taken to the brink of administration under the Americans, will no doubt tell Harry exactly what “they have done that is so wrong” when they travel to White Hart Lane next month. And they’ll also be remarkably keen that Rafa Benitez – not mentioned, but clearly blamed by Redknapp – has his own say point when Spurs travel to Inter next week.
Perhaps we should give Harry the benefit of the doubt though. After all, if anyone’s the expert on football clubs and administration…

[Leyton388]

This clearly shows that Harry knows nothing about finance which is most likely the reason he has a date with HMRC.

[Lisburn Red]

lol, ladies and gentlemen, we have a clear winner in the moronic quote of the year award. "Utmost sympathy"??? "Plough a fortune in"??? Good god, I knew the man was a tool, but that just takes the biscuit. When you really know nothing about a situation, and I mean NOTHING, why the hell do you have to say anything?

I've got a great idea, H&G should take over @ Spurs, then we'll see just how much sympathy he has for them....

I thought Rednapp was quite sensible up to this point....give that man a fecking slap.

[smu1977]

Cunt....

[Shaggy]

Owned.

"I HAVE the utmost sympathy for Reds owners George Gillett and Tom Hicks. All they seem to have done is plough a fortune into the place and stand to lose a fortune when they sell it.”

Well blow me f*** face*, bet that’s resulted in a few soggy Echos.

If you haven’t sprayed your Friday tea-time pint everywhere you’re either sat at home or an American.

Who could be so spectacularly out of touch with events at Anfield over the last three years to utter such drivel?

Who would put their name to such nonsense?

Who believes such Cor Blimey cobblers (there’s a clue there).

It’s a man whose son made more than 300 appearances for the Reds actually.

Harry Redknapp takes exception to being described as a ‘wheeler and dealer.’

Perhaps he prefers ‘ill-informed idiot’.

Even though the platform for such rubbish was The S**, surely Redknapp didn’t think he’d get away without being taken to task.

“Hicks and Gillett wrote cheques for Fernando Torres and Dirk Kuyt,” added ‘Arry, trying to justify his argument.

They didn’t.

Hicks and Gillett took over in February 2007.

Kuyt signed six months earlier.

But there was more from addled ‘Arry.

“I’d love to know what the two Americans have done that is so wrong,” asked the Spurs boss.

Well here goes.

They lied.

“There will be no debt on Liverpool,” said George Gillett in 2007.

There was. All of it. A club wrecking £280m.

The Americans didn’t invest any of their personal fortune into Anfield. They borrowed it. Then secured it on the club.

Unashamedly, Tom Hicks then bragged to the Wall Street Journal that: “Liverpool will be the most profitable investment I have ever made.”

But there was more. They approached Jurgen Klinsmann about becoming the new Liverpool manager, carefully ignoring the fact that Rafael Benitez was still in the charge.

They promised to build a new stadium.

“The shovel needs to be in the ground in the next 60 days. You will see the beginning of a great big swimming pool being dug out in Stanley Park,” said George Gillett.

We’re still waiting for even a puddle-sized hole to be dug.

And as for the fortunes invested on players like Torres, Mascherano and Aquilani. Liverpool spent £151,915,000 on transfers during the American’s reign and recouped £142,325,000.

That’s a nett spend of £9,590,000 – or £3.5m a year.

Not even the wheeler dealers that Harry despises could run a successful football club on that spend.

Come on Arry. You’re feeling sorry for the Americans? Are you sure?

* If you’re still uncertain, that delightful riposte was Tom Hicks junior’s take on fostering fan relations in an e-mail to a Reds supporter.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-fc/liverpool-fc-news/2010/10/08/just-what-did-liverpool-fc-s-american-owners-do-wrong-asks-harry-redknapp-where-do-you-want-us-to-start-replies-david-prentice-100252-27427798/

[Neil Young]

It's £3.2m a year actually but that's quibbling I suppose. It does make me wonder if their other sums are right though.

[Fredo]

Reading that, I'm now even more frustrated that we got rid of Benitez like that. He did absolute wonders with that kind of money. £3.5m a year, and he made us the best team in Europe with that!

As for the rest, Redknapp deserves every bit that's going to come his way. Prentice's done a marvellous job in publishing that, it's going to create waves down there. His bit about Hodgson (which you haven't pasted in there) is every bit as fabulous.