I doubt he'll walk away from a pay off though. I hope he goes now. Wayne Bridge is exactly the type of player we don't want. By John Cross | 6 Jun 2013 22:30 Queens Park Rangers manager Harry Redknapp's future is still in doubt, after it emerged the club was unmoved by his threat to quit. Redknapp warned on Wednesday that he was ready to walk out on the newly-relegated west Londoners if their top brass interfered over transfers. And Wayne Bridge - whose signing was blocked by QPR to spark Redknapp's fury - delivered a hammer blow to the isolated boss on Thursday night when he joined Championship rivals Reading. Former Manchester City and England defender Bridge has turned down interest from the Premier League to sign a one-year deal with the Royals, because he is convinced by manager Nigel Adkins' plans for the club. Redknapp made a last-ditch plea to stop Bridge, a free-agent after his City contract expired, going to Reading. But Rangers continued to block his move for the left-back. Chief executive Philip Beard, who has been put in charge of overseeing transfers by owner Tony Fernandes, is standing by the Loftus Road club's transfer policy. Bridge will turn 33 in August and Rangers do not want to make further big financial mistakes stung on older players after being stung by the arrival of the likes of £70,000-a-week Jose Bosingwa, 30, in recent transfer windows. Rangers are already struggling with a massive cash crisis following their relegation, as they have a string of players under contract on big salaries and can't get of them. The club insist they now have a strict financial structure that they refuse to deviate from, particularly for older players. They are also unwilling to sanction the sort of big payments to agents they made last summer and, in desperation, during the winter window as they spught players who could save them from relegation. The stance has placed Beard - currently at the Football League AGM in Portugal - on collision course with Redknapp, who wants assurances from Fernandes. Redknapp said on Wednesday: "You can't have other people have a say at all. I'm a football person and I've got a staff around me of football people. We've got to make the decisions and, if we make the right ones, we will have a chance. "Otherwise, if other people want to make the decisions, we've got no chance. If I don't get that, then I wouldn't stick around. "I'll speak to Tony Fernandes. They've got to back me with the people I want. I'm not asking him to spend money, I'm looking at a couple of free transfers."
i think too many people are thinking too much into this. both the manager and the chairman are saying they are having good talks. The problem last year was rather than build a team mark hughes/ mike riggs spent a load of players who were pushed on them by agents. harry is saying that this is not the way he wants to go. he is also saying there is no point of doing what he wants to do with out the backing of the board which he seems to have
For the first time, I'm thinking that there may be a real difference in opinion between Harry ( what he wants ) and TF and board ( what they are prepared to do ), Again, I have backed Harry from day one and if he stay, so be it but I'm starting to think, push comes to shove and something has to give ........................ and I don't think Harry, at his age is prepared to give squat. He doesn't need to because if he can't get what he wants here, he can walk into something else. From now on, I'm backing TF and the board to do what's right for the team and the club. If Harry is a part of it, so be it but my gut feeling is he won't be.
There's not that much thinking to do - Direct quotes Harry on arrival- TF is a fantastic guy and people have taken his pants down Before Transfer window - I don't think we should be doing any major business, TF has already spent enough Repeatedly during last 2 months - This team is useless and the players dont give a ....... Start of transfer window - I need to be left alone to make the decisions - otherwise I'm off, I really like Wayne Bridge - Even though he was finished as a footballer after Chelsea!! We believed that Redknapp had the one quality to transform this group of talented players from a rabble to a team - He didn't even come close! Now he sees that it is too much for him and that he doesn't have the tactical nous to bring it around and would rather get out with his reputation still intact rather than get found out. Once again we've all been fooled, 95% were joyous over getting Harry but so, so quickly we've worked out that the man is a Dinosaur in football parlance. Harry wants out, the players think he's a joke and TF and Beard are not going to spend anymore money on crap, old, not even nearly has beens!! Allelujah I say, we have just started on the road to recovery. The next step will be for Old Arry to do one of his own accord within the next 2 weeks taking his rabble with him. Then Tony can start by taking his time in bringing in a vibrant, forward thinking young manager that preferably is foreign and not tainted by the Premiership bullshit and mould some of this talent we have into a team. Something that Arry knows he's totally not cut out for - Arry do yourself a favour, retire and sit yourself next to your son and carve out a nice few years as a pundit. It feels so good, I can see the light, we're back on the way...... oh,oh hang on......................... Chu,Chu!!!!
Enough is enough - he has behaved like a child, and publicly which is disappointing given the widely reported disciplinary issues that exist within the club. He should know better, and be setting an example to his players. Results have been awfully poor and it's not like the the team has played with any passion under Harry barring the Sunderland and Southampton games - and even Saints was more about him going back and winning than QPR. He seems unable to turn things around with the players he has and the board are not keen to get more players on the wage bill until some of the parasites are offloaded - he has backed himself into a corner and need to go. No hanging around for a payoff - he's evidently not up to the job, and frankly should realise that his 'management style' has probably had its day in the modern game. Time to **** off to Sandbanks and put your feet up Harry!
I guess only time will tell by which time it will be too late. If Reading go up as champions, Harry will have the last laugh and 'I told you so'. If Bridge gets injurued on day 1 and out for rest of season... Who is going to blink first?
'Danish' you can consider yourself as having hit a 'hole in one' ...................... Well done, mate ! ................... I think we should all retire to the bar and discuss our club's next manager. Aussie
There comes a time when the board have to say no we're not paying agents & players these large fee's, bridge ok not a bad player but coming up to 33 is he the type of player we looking for? & harry will have to accept that & i think TF will accept his resignation if offered.
If Reading go up as champions it won't be solely because of Bridge - Brighton didn't go up last season and he played 37 games for them.
...and Danish is right - Harry doesn't believe he can do it - so he's doing everything possible to engineer a dismissal and a 'triffic little payoff'
Harry's created a hostage to fortune by airing his grievance in public. He just can't forget he's not a TV pundit now. He'll either have to eat humble pie or go
That article is ****, haven't we had enough lazy journalism for one life time. We dont know if the Bridge attempt was blocked for all we know he may have chosen Reading over us.
Why doesnt rednapp just put the records straight. Its simple. I'm staying & commited the club or resign.
"I spoke to the manager and he told me about the direction he wants the team to go in. Everything we talked about was positive - and he was really positive about signing me which means a lot," says Bridge. "Reading look like a team who are capable of getting back into the Premier League, a team that works hard for each other." ...and that is exactly what we are not. A club in total disarray, discontented manager, players that don't give a ****.
Personally I'm glad to see that the club have called his bluff. If they'd allowed themselves to be publically blackmailed like that then they would've shown that they'd learnt nothing. As it is they've shown a bit of backbone and I applaud them for it. Wether or not Harry feels that he now has an excuse to throw his toys out of the pram and leave, I don't know. Frankly, I don't much care either.
I think that the problem is that on the one hand we have Arry, who does his business in public through the media, constantly whining when he doesnt get his way, and on the other hand we have Beard who IMHO must take a lot of the responsibility for the mess we're in with regards to players contracts and deals. And I suspect that Arry doesnt like Beard, and Beard has now been told by the owners, quite rightly, to reign in the spending. So Arry cant get his way, so he whines to the press and makes veiled threats. Arry says that a player on a free (Bridge) costs nothing so its a simple decision, yet we all know from recent experience the lack of a transfer fee does not mean no costs. The contract is the ongoing recurring cost which hurts in the long term. So a free doesnt mean totally free. And Arry doesnt like Beard saying no to Bridge. IMHO opinion if Arry cant work within the owners guidelines then he should quit. And I also think that a man with football experience should run the club, leaving Beard to concentrate on the training ground and stadium, which is his area of expertise. Simples. Not.
