Harry Redknapp: dont censure me I done send increase for Portsmouth Portsmouth

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Harry Redknapp excluded himself from any censure last night for Portsmouths thrust in to administration department as he reflected on his former clubs fate. The Tottenham Hotspur physical education instructor was quick to opposite multiform accusations, chiefly, the idea between a little Portsmouth fans that his spending was the trigger for the clubs monetary mess.

Redknapp distributed that he incited a distinction on transfers for Portsmouth and is austere that he was unknowingly of players wages, that have valid unsustainable on the clubs turnover. He claims the essay was on the wall when Sacha Gaydamak, afterwards the owner, pulled the block on funding.

If you see at alternative clubs, they keep pumping the income in, Redknapp said.

He sealed 31 players henceforth at a net cost of 36.4 million during scarcely 3 years at Fratton Park. Portsmouth have brought in a net 68.1 million in player sales in the past 3 send windows given he left. People dont know what they are articulate about, Redknapp said. The track binds 19,000 people, there is no hospitality. Thats the trouble. Who knows where the income has gone, who knows what they have done? [My jot down was] amazing, unbelievable.

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Sylvain Distin was free, sole for 5 million, so with his salary cost nothing. [Lassana] Diarra cost 5 million, was paid 2.5 million in wages, and they sole him for 22 million. Glen Johnson cost 4 million, was on 30,000 a week, they sole him for 18 million. They even done 9 million distinction on [Jermain] Defoe.

He questioned given Portsmouth paid for eight players in the summer if they had monetary problems. They didnt say, We havent got income so were not going to outlay they outlayed about 11 million, Redknapp said.

Redknapp had hoped to pull Aston Villa, to equivocate personification his former group in the FA Cup semi-final tomorrow, and appreciates that he will be the aim for a little fans. People got dissapoint when I left given I did such a great pursuit there, he said. If they were gratified to see the behind of me, they wouldnt bother.

He forked out usually his Portsmouth side have won the FA Cup, outward the tip 4 clubs, in the past fifteen years and ignored Tottenhams extraction in the competition. It is nineteen years given their last triumph. They contend that the a crater bar but the scarcely twenty years given they won, he said. Why are we approaching to win it now? We are fighting on dual fronts and I would take possibly one and contend what a illusory season.