Adel Taarabt accused of being a blatant liar by QPR manager Harry Redknapp Harry Redknapp has dismissed Adel Taarabt's claims he rarely bothers to take QPR training Midfielder's accusation came after Redknapp claimed Taarabt was 'three stone overweight' Taarabt trained on Saturday but is not in the squad for QPR's clash with Aston Villa on Monday By Jon West For The Mail On Sunday Published: 23:15 GMT, 25 October 2014 | Updated: 23:15 GMT, 25 October 2014 Harry Redknapp has branded Adel Taarabt a âblatant liarâ. Redknapp claimed after his QPR sideâs 3-2 home loss to Liverpool a week ago that his maverick Morocco midfielder was unpickable because he was âthree stone overweightâ. The player was quickly able to disprove the claim and sent some stinging criticism Redknappâs way, insinuating that the manager rarely bothered attending training. Harry Redknapp has branded Adel Taarabt a 'blatant liar' following comments made by the QPR star this week Taarabt claimed Redknapp rarely bothered attending training in response to his manager's comments Taarabt hit back at Redknapp's claims he is three stone overweight, but the QPR boss has returned Taarabt shows off his physique to Sportsmail photographer Andy Hooper in response to Redknapp's insults Redknapp said: âNone of what he said was true. Iâm out on that training ground every day. When people say Iâm not there all morning, that is a blatant lie. âWhen youâre on someoneâs side so much and you get let down, at some stage you crack. Like with your kid misbehaving, you say âdonât do thatâ. In the end you get the hump and you send them to bed. Thatâs how I felt on Sunday.â Taarabt trained with the first team on Saturday but is not in the squad for Monday's home match against Aston Villa. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...QPR-manager-Harry-Redknapp.html#ixzz3HDwnQH67 Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
Adel Taarabt has driven me mad at QPR, admits Harry Redknapp QPR manager Harry Redknapp admitted last night controversial midfield player Adel Taarabt 'pushed him over the edge'. By Tony Stenson / Published 25th October 2014 Now the Moroccan's career is on the edge unless he proves his worth. Their war of words continued with Redknapp virtually accusing the player of lying. Taarabt claimed the QPR boss of never rarely being on the training ground and when he was, was always on a phone - after Redknapp had said he was too fat to pick. Redknapp said: "I have tried everything with him, it was the first time I had gone public with him, things happen that pushed me over the edge you can only keep your mouth shut for so long, I just got fed up with it. "I just got the hump and when I had it all week; people questioning my job all week and every day. "We got beat in the last minute at home to Liverpool and I said what I said. "If it makes him want to show everybody I would be delighted - I wasn't getting anywhere the other way. "He is 25 - but that's how it's been. Hopefully he will come out and train and he will work on the training ground and get fit. "People think I am mad trying to continue believing him. But the boy has talent. "Ask Glenn Hoddle, Joe Jordan, Kevin Bond, Clive Allen, Neil Warnock, anyone who has worked with him. "We need his Championship form and if he's fit he can do it. Has he been badly advised? He's very close to people, I could write a book on it. "Why carry on? Well, maybe I don't put up with it, maybe you get to the stage where you are fed up with. “Has he been badly advised? He's very close to people, I could write a book on it” Harry Redknapp "It isn't easy being a manager every day there are problems. "He's not a Messi, a Suarez, a Bale or Ronaldo, they produce every week. You cant compare with them. "There will be a time when he regrets it and will be a shame because he has great god-given talent but he needs to produce. "I have without a doubt been his biggest ally and everyone who knows me knows that. "I'm the one person who has stuck by him. I have had other people come in and say to me that I am off my head for sticking by him. They tell me he's never going to do it. "And I say 'yes he will, we have got to make him do it, that's our job'.That is how I've been with him since day one. "He claimed I am rarely on the training ground. That is not true. I am there every day around 7.30am and I defy anyone to say differently. I have no idea what he claimed it. "Whatever I say now, I don't need a big story blown up again, it's history now, we need to move on and get on with the game and get a result against Villa on Monday. "Why no fine? I don't know what's happening. I don't know what chairman Tony Fernandes has done, I haven't got a clue. "I've not seen Adel all week, he hasn't been here. He has had a sore throat and not been available to train since. But it is done and we have to move on. I'm looking forward to the Villa game now." Redknapp backed his defender Rio Ferdinand, who has announced his retirement at the end of the season, to become a top class manager one day. "No doubt. He's a thorough professional, a credit to the game and very knowledgeable."
Taarabt row is over as QPR move on, says coach Redknapp October 26, 2014 Print Send to Friend LONDON: Queens Park Rangers manager Harry Redknapp says his row with striker Abel Taarabt is over and he is now concentrating on getting the player fit and back into the team. The pair played out a very public spat at the beginning of the week when Redknapp called the former Morocco international “about three stone overweight” and branded him “the worst professional I have ever come across”. The player hit back at his boss, showing off his physique in the Daily Mail newspaper and claiming the manager did not watch the team training. But following a stern rebuke from the Premier League club’s chairman Tony Fernandes, who apologised to the fans for the embarrassment caused by the row, Redknapp says he is now on Taarabt’s side. “I’ve had more ups than I have downs with Adel,” Redknapp told a news conference on Saturday, ahead of the league visit of Aston Villa on Monday. “I love his ability and talent. I just want him back to his best. He wants to train this morning and we’ll get him in shape as quickly as possible. “As soon as Adel is fit and ready, we will bring him into the fold. He’s a fantastic talent and we need him.” Taarabt has not started a game for QPR since August. Reuters make your mind up harry is the row over or not
Harry Redknapp's Adel Taarabt outburst was preposterous prattle from a panicking manager ... there is no excuse for QPR boss's deliberate ploy to smear the player •Harry Redknapp said Adel Taarabt was 'about three stone overweight' •The QPR manager's outburst came at a press conference last week •Taarabt showed off his trim physique and said he's ready to play • The incident smack of a desperate manager trying to seek a diversion By Patrick Collins For The Mail On Sunday Published: 21:55 GMT, 25 October 2014 | Updated: 01:15 GMT, 26 October 2014 Harry Redknapp has been gainfully involved in football management for more than 30 years. His successes have been few but his employment has been regular. This is because he understands how the game works. In particular, he understands the art of self-preservation. His performance after QPR’s latest defeat was taken straight from the play-book he helped to write. QPR are a desperately poor side and two years of Harry’s stewardship has not improved them. Taarabt, about three stones overweight said Redknapp, wears gloves and a hat in QPR training They were unfortunate to lose to Liverpool but the reality is that they are bottom of the Premier League with just four points from 24. It was time for a desperate manager to seek a diversion and Redknapp found it in an innocent query about his non-selection of Adel Taarabt. The resulting rant deserves to be enshrined in Gothic script. ‘I can’t protect people who don’t want to run and train and are about three stone overweight,’ declared Redknapp. ‘Taarabt’s not injured. He’s not fit to play football, unfortunately. What am I supposed to keep saying? Keep getting your £60,000, £70,000 and don’t train? What’s the game coming to?’ There was more in that populist vein but we sensed, not for the first time, that reality might shortly raise its voice. And Taarabt’s response was devastating. Far from being ‘three stone overweight,’ he was athletically trim. He stepped on the scales and posed for pictures to make his point. He also added a fascinating insight into Redknapp’s managerial methods: ‘He spends most of the time in his office but, when he gets off the phone, he comes down to watch for five or 10 minutes — he never takes a session. The training sessions aren’t the same standard as Milan, or what I would expect under another manager.’ Taarabt hit back at Redknapp's claims he is three stone overweight, but the QPR boss has returned Now if you were seeking a standard bearer for the ideal professional, then the unpredictable Adel Taarabt may not be your man. But he does not deserve to have his reputation spitefully smeared by a panicking manager. By now, Redknapp was pinned to the ropes, yet managed to prattle: ‘The only reason he has lost weight is because he has had tonsillitis — even I could suck my stomach in for a picture and look OK’. Tonsillitis! Even by Harry’s standards, it was preposterous. Either he had discovered the ultimate slimming aid, or he had been caught out in a fantasy. Judging by the derisive laughter, the public had made up its mind. QPR chairman Tony Fernandes apologised to fans for the ‘embarrassment’ caused by the ludicrous spat and spoke of his ‘disappointment’ with both manager and player. And we sensed that Fernandes may have found the episode strangely revealing. As the entrepreneurial driving force behind the successful AirAsia budget airline, he clearly has some awareness of the importance of tranquil relationships between employer and employees. Certainly, he will not have been familiar with the 19th-century approach to industrial relations which English football has unthinkingly embraced. Ever since Redknapp came into the game, more than half a century ago, he has learned to regard the manager as the ultimate autocrat. His word is law, his authority is absolute. Privately, a player may think him wrong, foolish or simply incompetent, but such thoughts are never voiced. For he is the manager, the ‘boss’, the ‘gaffer’, ordained by custom and practice. And if that gaffer should decide to hurl a few public insults at a player who may have displeased him, well, that is his God-given right. Those employees are rather better rewarded these days; ‘£60,000, £70,000’, as Redknapp resentfully revealed. But the essential relationship is unchanged; they are still expected to doff their metaphorical cloth caps to the mill-owner, who can make or break them with a single, vengeful phrase. And they are expected to accept this Dickensian code without a whisper of protest. In truth, it is a feudal system which demeans the players and deludes the managers. But football at large has known no other way and managers like Redknapp are patently content with that situation. Redknapp's style subscribes to an outdated Dickensian management model that demeans players Mercifully, the worm is starting to turn. The players’ sense of self respect is beginning to match their professional status. The Taarabt case is a poor example, since he has no future with QPR and therefore has little to lose. But other, more reflective, footballers increasingly deplore a system which demands such archaic deference. It is said that, in the closing years of his time at Old Trafford, Sir Alex Ferguson was steadily moving away from the old methods. Tea cups no longer flew, boots were no longer kicked and the hair-dryer was returned to its case. Players, in particular foreign players, were not prepared to be routinely insulted in that fashion. And Ferguson was a brilliantly talented, overwhelmingly successful football manager. If stars such as Ferguson could see the way the game was changing, then functionaries like Redknapp have no excuse for their insulting ignorance. ‘What’s the game coming to?’, he blustered. Perhaps it is time that somebody told him... . Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ploy-QPR-boss-smear-player.html#ixzz3HE6daN17 Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
AC Milan / News | By Richard Hinman QPR outcast could be set for AC Milan return Adel Taarabt - AC MilanAdel Taarabt is being lined up for a permanent move to AC Milan in January. Taarabt enjoyed a successful loan spell at Milan last season and the San Siro giants are keen to sign the player for a cut-price fee. According to the Daily Mirror, Taarabt has no future at QPR with Milan being his most likely destination for a move away. QPR were demanding €10 million for the Moroccan in the summer but it is believed that they would accept a much lower bid in January. Taarabt’s future at Loftus Road has been casted in doubt following Harry Redknapp’s public rant against the player last week. The former Tottenham manager accused Taarabt of being three stone overweight and lacking the attitude to play in the Premier League. Follow Richard Hinman on Twitter: @RichardHinman
Seems to me that last Sunday is proving to be a Eureka moment for the media about Harold...All i can say is it's about time. ....
Unfortunately we've been watching this car-crash for two years, last Sunday's 'performance' was our best in his two year stay and we still lost with comic-book defending, the sooner he's put out of his misery the better...
Focusing on this is like focusing on a soap opera on TV like it matters and then switching off the news. We're playing Villa at home tomorrow. We need our team to win - ugly or not - and get three points. The Moroccan flawed genius will not be playing. It's quite possible that the retiree will. The manager will still be the manager. Let's move on and just get behind the team.
Which is what Adel has been angling for all summer. Make yourself unpopular and secure a move ... at a discounted price.
Seems like TF may be about to pay out on the QPR team as a Category Two ( repairable write-off ) and is looking to take out a new policy with Tony Pulis Insurance. It will be interesting to see how much it will costs to put this team back on the road for the remainder of the season. The club has a 'dicky clutch' and being that the part comes from Morocco, further breakdowns may arise. The motor has constant fuel problems with the forwards lacking petrol to smoke the opposition away. Despite the team having low mileage on the clock, parts are not cheap and the chances of continual breakdowns may put off most potential suitors. I hear Tony Pulis Insurance is offering 24/7 Loftus Roadside assist which may just prove to be the clincher for TF on getting the team back on the road. http://www.newsnow.co.uk/A/740640734?-294:802
Yep. They're just about to discuss Harry and Adel. It will be interesting to see if anyone dares to criticise Redknapp.
So..............hardly any criticism of Redknapp. They basically just took the piss out of the club and Fernandes. Just makes me embarrassed!
Patrick Collins has never had a good word to say for Harold or Leeds United. I like his column! However, as a Charlton man I can't remember him ever having a good word to say about us either!
There's a certain irony that this board has at times been fixated with Taarabt, to the extent that mention of his name in a post provoked a collective groan. Some thought the preoccupation with the guy had gone away, and now the footballing world nationwide is obsessing about him
QPR owner Tony Fernandes: 'I'll quit club when fans want me to go' Queens Park Rangers' Malaysian chairman Tony Fernandes taken on December 15, 2012 © Getty Images By Danielle Joynson, Staff Reporter Filed: Monday, October 27, 2014 at 06:13 UK Last Updated: Monday, October 27, 2014 at 06:13 UK Queens Park Rangers owner Tony Fernandes has admitted that he will step away from the Premier League club when the fans want him out. The 50-year-old, who sold the Caterham Formula 1 team back in July, recently had to apologise to the fans following the public dispute between manager Harry Redknapp and Adel Taarabt. The R's are also rooted to the bottom of the league table after just won win in eight, but showed signs of promise in their recent 3-2 defeat to Liverpool at Loftus Road. On Sunday night Fernandes wrote on Twitter: "When qpr fans want me to go due to my poor decision making I will go. full stop. "I stand by we have great players. need less politics and get behind harry and players. all players should be unified. Liverpool showed what we [are] made of "A good leader knows when to go. time for me to leave at caterham f1. love qpr and AirAsia but there will come a time and staff and fans dictate that." QPR will host Aston Villa at Loftus Road this evening.
