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HARRY REDKNAPP has accused Manchester City of transfer threats and dirty tricks.

Tottenham's boss chose the eve of tonight's Premier League showdown at Eastlands to reveal how City used strong-arm tactics to bully Spurs.

Redknapp claimed the Londoners' fourth-place rivals made him drop his interest in signing Craig Bellamy last year by threatening to buy his other top target - Wilson Palacios - as well.

He said: "I was trying to sign Bellamy at the same time as Palacios.

"Then they came and told me 'You know, if you don't drop out of Bellamy, we'll sign Palacios too and you won't get either of them'.

"So we had no choice really. They just said 'We will blow you out of the water'.

"And then, obviously, the money they offered Bellamy we could not compete with anyway. It's not reasonable but they can do it, can't they?

"They've got the backing, they've got the clout to do that.

"They can do it if they want to somebody. I've never been in that position.

"It probably wasn't the manager at the time, anyway."

Mark Hughes was City's boss in January last year, when they bagged striker Bellamy from West Ham for £14million.

Redknapp finally signed Honduran midfielder Palacios from Wigan for £12m.

Tonight's shoot-out will have a massive impact in deciding which club grabs fourth spot in the Premier League and qualifies for Champions League football next season.


Thats right twitchy - dont fuck with us or we will blow you out the water...........fucking made my day has that !

And another fucking whinge from the twitchy cunt.



HARRY REDKNAPP admits he has no chance of signing a player if Manchester City are in the hunt for the same star.

The Tottenham manager has spoken for the first time of the frustrations of competing against the richest club in the Premier League.

Redknapp revealed how his experience of trying to beat City in the transfer market left him with burnt fingers when he attempted to land Craig Bellamy.

He believes no club in the country would have had any hope of getting the Welsh striker - and finished a loser in a short, sharp battle that was fought and won behind the scenes.

Mega-bucks City simply blew Spurs out of the water with wages, transfer fees and promises to sign another player Redknapp was chasing if he did not pull out of the race for Bellamy.

The two sides meet tonight at Eastlands in a clash that could decide who reaches the Champions League next season.

And Redknapp said: "You can persuade a player to come to your club for football reasons but, like anything, it depends.

"If you talk about five grand a week difference between another club, then it's possible.

"If the difference is 20 grand a week, then it's hard.

"Ninety nine per cent of players will go where the extra 20 grand is. It's natural, human nature. That's the problem.

"Tottenham spend good money. I will be able to spend money this summer. It's not as if we haven't already done so either.

It just means you will have to deal with more brown envelopes you bent cheating cunt.!!

I love the claim of poverty, especially since he jumped shipped mid-season last year from Pompey. Does he expect us to just lay down because the great "Arry wants a player, so don't outbid me for him?? Enjoy 4th place for now you twat, you will be looking from the outside in 24 hours from now.

I wish someone would slap the piss out of this twitching cunt.

Twitchy is trying to play mind games..except he's so shite at it and so insignificant that nobody is taking much notice...Poor 'Arry.
It sets his standard...he is trying to create Spurs as the underdogs and City as the big time charlie bullies. If Spurs lose, his excuse is already in place. If they win, it makes the victory all the bigger.

It seems we are doing Spurs a favour stopping them spending all that money by capturing players before him. We are stopping him bankrupting Spurs as he did Pompey.

john68 wrote:Twitchy is trying to play mind games..except he's so shite at it and so insignificant that nobody is taking much notice...Poor 'Arry.
It sets his standard...he is trying to create Spurs as the underdogs and City as the big time charlie bullies. If Spurs lose, his excuse is already in place. If they win, it makes the victory all the bigger.

It seems we are doing Spurs a favour stopping them spending all that money by capturing players before him. We are stopping him bankrupting Spurs as he did Pompey.

Funny thing is we haven't won anything yet to be portrayed as the bullies, so you are right he is blowing smoke twitchy style.

May I be pedantic Flo....You don't mind me calling you Flo for short do you?...:-)

Whilst I agree with your general view on this. I don't think that City not winning anything yet is a...funny thing.

So if we were going to sign both and 'blow him out of the water', why were we worried that they would sign Bellamy to the point we needed to make a phonecall to the melted candle?

Slim wrote:So if we were going to sign both and 'blow him out of the water', why were we worried that they would sign Bellamy to the point we needed to make a phonecall to the melted candle?

That is a superb visual Slim.

Slim wrote:So if we were going to sign both and 'blow him out of the water', why were we worried that they would sign Bellamy to the point we needed to make a phonecall to the melted candle?

Those are Twitchy's words, who said we did make that call?

Florida Blue wrote:

Slim wrote:So if we were going to sign both and 'blow him out of the water', why were we worried that they would sign Bellamy to the point we needed to make a phonecall to the melted candle?

Those are Twitchy's words, who said we did make that call?

That's the point, his logic is flawed.

I vaguely recall something about how it was supposed to have been a good bit of business for Arry at the time. Back out of interest in a player they were going to miss out on anyway in return for a clear run on another. Money saved!

The cunt faced piss stained wankbag ius only moaning because he missed out on the chance of another backhander, dodgy cunt. #
Who is Jamie Redknapp's real Dad?

so it wasn't hughes being mates that brought the loud mouthed cunt to us then..
he is just another money grabbing judas

he plays well though 'arry.. and he's now worth more than when we bought him..Ha HA !! stick it up yer Garry Glitter

Slim wrote:

Florida Blue wrote:

Slim wrote:So if we were going to sign both and 'blow him out of the water', why were we worried that they would sign Bellamy to the point we needed to make a phonecall to the melted candle?

Those are Twitchy's words, who said we did make that call?

That's the point, his logic is flawed.

Flawed ? are you kidding, there is no logic to be flawed.

i thought baconface was going to lose it first, but looks like 'arry has beaten him to it..
well that'll be a first then

So maybe I've missed the plot here, but when did Spurs get off with claiming to be a poor club? This is a club which has spent more than us every year until the takeover by Sheik Mansour...it is a not particularly funny comedy!

You couldn't make it up of you tried. 'Arry is accusing others of dodgy dealings. Amazing.

Hypocrisy, coming from the man currently arrested and charged with tax evasion over dodgy transfer dealings and tax evasion; the man who blatantly taps players all the time in the press "I like im" etc etc, the man who tapped Berkovic, Distin, Cole and James when they were at City.

So we've had Kaboul go from Spurs to Pompey and back to Spurs, Defoe go from Spurs to Pompey and back to Spurs, and numerous other players follow Redknapp around like pathetic mercenaries, ie Krancjar, Crouch, James etc - same Agents and frequent transfers. Every transfer window he ships in and out about 20 players ... anyone see a pattern here? Anyone would think HMRC had spotted it.

Time to put this tw@t in his place, and as said before lets do our talking on the pitch and perhaps a little sabotage on every transfer he sets up in the next 12 months by bidding £10m for every player he's after just as a warning to him.

I did like it at the time when Bruce went off on one, saying that we were trying to undermine his players in his post-match interview. I think Whelan came out afterwards and said that there was no problem with what we had done and I think he got a few extra quid.

You've got to admire Harry for playing the sympathy card, no other manager would stoop to such depths but Harry, once again, shows he can sink to thew lowest depths to get people on side. If I was a Spuds player I'd be cringing right now and also wondering if I was actually his first choice player. I wonder how many of them will be their next year if they make the Champions League, because I'm pretty sure they've spent just as much money as us to get them where they're at?