Harry Redknapp seems to be resigned to losing out on Loic Remy – the French International striker – who it seems will either stay at Marseilles or join Newcastle near the end of January.
Loic Remy – didn’t even want to talk to Redknapp
And the QPR manager has been up front and has revealed that Remy didn’t even want to speak to him when the QPR manager traveled to talk to the Marseilles striker last Sunday, about a possible move to QPR.
Harry has been talking to the press (what again), and he had this to say about Remy and his adventure to France last Sunday:
“I don’t know where he’ll end up. I think Newcastle are interested but he’s also thinking about staying at Marseilles.” “He’s not playing regularly at Marseilles and I think it would have been good for him to come and play in the Premier League and try to help us stay up.”
“If the worst comes to the worst and we couldn’t survive, at least he’s in the shop window and the big clubs would want him.” “And if he does score the goals we would hope he would score, then there’s every chance we would stay up.” “He didn’t want to come to us.”
“He didn’t even want to speak about coming.” “I went over last week to watch him play, not that I needed to as I watched him about seven times when I was at Tottenham.” “I couldn’t even get a meeting with him. I was hoping to talk to him to encourage him to come.”
“I think he was in a position where, when I was at Tottenham, he was interested in coming and I got on well with the lad so he would have felt embarrassed coming to say he didn’t want to come to QPR.” “He wasn’t being disrespectful. He was just in a position he didn’t know how to handle, so I’ve got no problems with him.”
“He may change his mind, you don’t know. I wouldn’t write him off completely. I’d like to get him if possible but it’s not going to be easy.”
And Harry was then asked about Newcastle’s interest in the player, and you have to remember that Harry turned down the chance to manage Newcastle in January of 2008, after big Sam Allardyce was shown the door, and before Kevin Keegan was appointed manager for the second time on January 16th of 2008.
This is what Harry said:
“Newcastle are in a similar position league-wise, but Newcastle is one of the great clubs – 50-odd thousand Geordies every week in their black and white shirts – a fantastic football club.”
Good (and true) words from Harry Redknapp there – and let’s hope Loic Remy reads these reports of what the QPR manager said about Newcastle United – we need him at Newcastle.
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9 comments so far
Blaydon-Toon
Jan 12, 2013 at 2:34 AM
Comment #1Sign him up FFS !
toon1707
Jan 12, 2013 at 2:36 AM
Comment #2This has dragged on to long give him a day or two as a final chance if we go past the time set move on or we will end up with nobody
AMEOBI
Jan 12, 2013 at 2:44 AM
Comment #3Anyone else watching Richie Rich later at 2:30 on bbc 1? Darts.. He’s a talent mind
paddythemagpie
Jan 12, 2013 at 2:49 AM
Comment #4yea stuart ur black..cool quit playin the racist card…how was he meant to know ur black..sad attention seeker who wants to boycott the club..get a grip will ya
Dennis Twice
Jan 12, 2013 at 6:58 AM
Comment #5linked bla bla bla……nobody is coming, we just have to go on what we got….
Anth
Jan 12, 2013 at 7:59 AM
Comment #6I personally think arry wants pardews job.
mot7
Jan 12, 2013 at 9:05 AM
Comment #7Good or bad i wish this tosser would stop talking about nufc
yorkshire_mag
Jan 12, 2013 at 10:16 AM
Comment #8Get him signed!!!
fletch91
Jan 13, 2013 at 10:46 AM
Comment #9I agree. Sounds like Redknapp fancies a job at Newcastle. Why wouldn’t he? He probably reckons he could have us higher up the table when we are now. Anyone else always felt that Pardew’s been a bit lucky at Newcastle and that a lot of our previous success simply down to Graham Carr finding some top players?