Redknapp: No concerns over QPR finances (From Daily Echo)
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Redknapp: No concerns over QPR finances
11:43am Friday 8th March 2013 in Sport
HARRY REDKNAPP
Harry Redknapp has faith in the way QPR's financial future is being handled but admits it is vital he plays his part by keeping the club in the top flight.
QPR released accounts this week that showed their wage bill had doubled to £56million in the year to May 31, 2012.
They have since strengthened further with a number of high-earning players brought to Loftus Road, including Loic Remy and Christopher Samba in January.
The outlay has yet to reap its rewards with QPR bottom of the Premier League with 10 games remaining.
Relegation could have serious implications but ex-Saints boss Redknapp, who took over in November after Mark Hughes was sacked, is convinced the owners know what they are doing.
"If the debts are high the chairman and the board must understand that," he said.
"They're not silly men, they're successful businessmen. They know what they're doing so I'll leave it to them. It's their business.
"It's important obviously (to stay up). But when you are a football manager we are not involved in that side of the business.
"I've said it a million times, we are not involved in players' wages.
"That's done at a different level to what we work. We work with the team and on the pitch.
"The financial side of it I don't know. Those results were from before I came here."
Redknapp's men meet a Sunderland side not yet out of trouble themselves tomorrow with the former Tottenham boss revealing the signings of Remy and Samba were driven by chairman Tony Fernandes.
"You don't keep going to them and saying you want to bring in this player or that player," added Redknapp.
"The chairman said to me in the window he wanted to make the two big signings.
"He did all the work in doing that. He brought the players to the club. I couldn't really take an awful lot of credit for those signings to be honest.
"He did that. He met the players and the agents. He did the deals and persuaded the players to come to QPR.
"It was great for the club. It's up to them.
"You couldn't get nicer people than the people that own QPR.
"I mean that genuinely. They're fantastic people."
Comments(3)
Stnana
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12:58pm Fri 8 Mar 13
SaintJD
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1:50pm Fri 8 Mar 13
Winner for best 'Arry-ism of the week though has to go to this gem from the Mirror surely:
Redknapp insisted on Friday night his players had “trained harder on this trip than on any trip I’ve ever been on”.
He added: “We worked the maximum, man for man, worked our socks for an hour and a half, every day."
The man is a slave driver, and they did all that on the minimum wage too.
priesters says...
11:59am Fri 8 Mar 13
Quote from Redknapp in December:
"“We haven’t got £7m to spend on a player. I really do not want to spend the club’s money. I have to be honest – there are an awful lot of players at this club who are on far too much money for the amount of their ability and what they give to the club. I don’t want to see the owner’s pants taken down any more than they have in the past.There are an awful lot of agents making money out of our team."
They've gambled the future of their club and it'll come back to bite them. With Harry taking none of the blame.
Idiots.