http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...e-January-transfer-deadline-day-distaste.html Harry Redknapp reveals surprise January transfer deadline day distaste The QPR manager, a staple of transfer deadline day, says 'If there wasn’t a transfer window it would make it easier for everybody' please log in to view this image Quelle surprise: Harry Redknapp says that January transfers always seem to happen on 'the last day of panic' Photo: GETTY IMAGES please log in to view this image By Jim White 10:30PM GMT 30 Jan 2015 please log in to view this image Comments In a move that will have surprised many who have long regarded him as the leading man in the drama, Harry Redknapp says he is not a fan of the January transfer window. “If there wasn’t a transfer window it would make it easier for everybody,” the Queens Park Rangers manager said as his he prepared to take his team to St. George’s Park for a training session ahead of their game with Stoke City on Saturday. “If you didn’t have to rush in this month, run around like lunatics trying to find a couple of players, yeah it would be better.” Redknapp has become a traditional element of transfer-deadline day, his interviews outside training grounds – generally conducted through the window of his car – pivotal to breathless television coverage. But he insisted that he found the sudden urgent requirement to squeeze business into a month mid-season more than a little taxing. “You want to be in a situation where you don’t have to do anything. But when you’re at the bottom, you need to do something and you have to do it now. We need a striker. We’ve got Charlie [Austin] and Bobby Zamora. We’re short. We finished up short when [Loïc] Remy left when the window closed before. Trouble is, finding someone now is very difficult.” The problem, he suggested, is that the pressures inherent at this time of the season reduce the room for manoeuvre. Related Articles please log in to view this image Stoke City v Queens Park Rangers: match preview 30 Jan 2015 Who is the Premier League's top boss? 30 Jan 2015 Swansea rival QPR for M’Vila 23 Jan 2015 Redknapp: QPR need another striker 19 Jan 2015 “It’s really difficult trying to pick people up at this time of year,” he said. “Everyone’s hanging on to what they’ve got. People are fighting for a Champions Leagueplace or fighting to stay up. People get rid of people they want to get rid of. I get hundreds of names thrown at me. But if they’re not someone we fancy, we won’t take them.” And even if an attractive option does become available, Redknapp suggested an additional caution was required in the mid-season window. “Whoever you take at this time of year you’re taking a gamble. People will only let someone go if the manager doesn’t like them or they’re a problem. No one’s going to say: ‘Yeah, go on, you want him, go and take Harry Kane on loan’. They’ll let you have who they don’t want basically.” One player he is interested in signing is Bakary Sako, the Wolves winger. Les Ferdinand, Redknapp’s assistant, has been instructed to try to expedite the move. With Jordon Mutch moving to Crystal Palace, Redknapp has the budget to sign the player on a long-term deal. Though there as yet been no movement, he was optimistic it might go ahead before the window closes on Monday. “It’s Friday. You’d think it was a bit late to start spending money,” he said. “[But] it always seems to happen on the last day. The last day of panic.”
Can Harry have been the only man on the planet who didn't know Remy would jump ship? I do despair that we will be lastminute.com again and fekkin' Adebayour will be the last straw...
SPOT ON. Of Redknapp's many oft-repeated excuses for being a rubbish football manager, this is one of the most boring and risible.
Just more bullshit from the King of bullshitters............................it worked a lot of the time when he was younger and full of energy. He couldn't give a flying **** about QPR and we can all see it!
I'm out of the country for a while so am a bit out of touch in terms of the vibe at LR. When will the ill-feeling expressed towards Redknapp online start to be manifested in the form of "Redknapp out" chants and whatnot at matches?
Against Utd there was a loudish rendition of "**** off Redknapp" when their 2nd goal went in. However, that was quickly answered by much louder support for Redknapp. Those against were mainly in the R block and Q block corner, whilst those supporting him were in the Loft. I would imagine that it won't take many more poor results for that feeling of discontent to become louder and louder.
I can't understand why anyone would do that. I get why people might not want to slate him out loud. But actually sing up to support him? Why?
It appeared as though those in the loft were trying to drown out the ones in the corner. It actually got quite heated for a couple of minutes with lots of angry gestures etc between our own fans. I get the impression at games that many people are still under the impression that Redknapp is a great manager. You hear it all the time from fans of other teams who can't believe it when our fans criticise Harry. "Bit it's Harry!" is all I ever hear. Presumably the mask will slip eventually.
Absurd, isn't it? Judging my the mood online, I thought he'd lost the supporters pretty much entirely.
As I think is apparent, I have never had any time for Redknapp. But when I'm at the match I don't think about him much, probably because I'm more focussed on Barton, running around like a headless chicken but with less footballing talent. My expressions of angst and frustration are just that - brief outbursts of swearing and groans. I'd never join in negative chanting, even if I agree with the sentiment, thats not what I go to LR for.
I don't see the point of slating Redknapp during a match - heads go down on the pitch, so its counter-productive. The time to have got rid of him was the start of the transfer window. It's too late now imho. I'd rather sink or swim with the guy - and it's probably sink - and then hunt down a good prospect over the summer. As TF said, we've been on the back foot since NW took us up first. If we go down, stabilise with good young prospects so the team doesn't need a blood transfusion every time we make it to the top tier. I must say, though, it will depress me if the three teams that go down are the three that went up.
I agree that booing and chanting against the team or manager are pointless and do nothing but harm. I disagree that we should just plough on with Redknapp. He's taking us down!
I agree, Col, that seems likely, but I don't see a quick fix. We stumbled from NW to MH, and from MH to HR. I just can't see a Ronald Koeman or for that matter Pulis out there that will perform miracles (without a transfer window) and lead us on from strength to strength.
I can't see a replacement either, but I'm so disillusioned with Redknapp that I'd take absolutely anyone!
