Harry: Changes needed and faith put in home-grown players

[Stanley]

Harry Redknapp pulls no punches: the squad he has at Queens Park Rangers is not fit for purpose and he is not prepared to accept that any longer.

“We need to make changes and shift some players. We need to change the whole attitude, really, at the club, and the only way we can do that is to bring in some new players, the right type of lads who will appreciate being at QPR.

I just think there are some players here who are on good contracts and who are just content to go along with it. They have been allowed to get away with doing what they want, when they want and that’s not going to get us anywhere. We need to change them and do it now.

There are a few here who have got the wrong attitude and that’s the problem. If they want to move I’m happy to move any of them. If they come and say ‘nah, I want to play for a bigger club’ then get someone to pick the phone up because we’ll do business. We want to sell them and make room for those who want to be here.”

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Putting faith in home-grown heroes

Harry Redknapp is launching his bid to bounce straight back up to the Premier League with a team that will have a ‘Made In Britain And Ireland’ tag on it – but probably without Joey Barton.

Redknapp said:

“Joey has been training well, but I think he wants Marseille again and Champions League football.

I want players willing to go the extra mile, players who arrive each morning and talk about the game.

I got fed up with some believing Real Madrid or Barcelona wanted them. But I haven’t had a call from either club.” After losing out to Norwich over Celtic striker Gary Hooper, and Jamie Mackie joining rivals Nottingham Forest, Redknapp reckons he will probably need up to five more new faces – probably all to be British or Irish.

I am particularly pleased with Richard Dunne. What a player he has been, three times Manchester City player of the year and another who knows the ropes.”

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[theblackmafia.]

That seems like the statements he made many months ago

[Ric-Roc]

All pretty obvious stuff.

[Stanley]

...title amended and extra quotes added now.

[QPRDave]

I thought he mean't Hitchcock, Shariff, Petrasso, Andrade , etc with homegrown in the title

[theblackmafia.]

All old stuff re-hashed

[zeberdee]

hes a good manager and talking some sense there but hes been saying the same thing since he arrived and the same old faces are still there

[Shania]

OK,with these comments he has put a lot of pressure on the board. They simply have to pay more than a few contracts OFF

I can sense a power struggle in the making.

[Shania]

hes a good manager and talking some sense there but hes been saying the same thing since he arrived and the same old faces are still there

IMO, It´s not his fault that Barton and Adel don´t want to play or even train with the club. I suspect the same is the case with the sicknote; Remy.

[stainrodisalegend]

Yet again Harry spouting off in public. He might well be right about the attitudes. But attacking them in public isn't necessarily the best way to get more out of them and certainly isn't going to increase their transfer fee (as its pretty obvious which players he is talking about).

[dogsrrs]

All old stuff re-hashed

Exactly and people post that he talks to media to much when as you say it's the same thing rehashed to look like they are reporting something new , Qpr posters need to get off his back and let him get on with trying to rebuild a squad that MIGHT take us back up instead of criticizing him at every opertunity

[Shania]

Yet again Harry spouting off in public. He might well be right about the attitudes. But attacking them in public isn't necessarily the best way to get more out of them and certainly isn't going to increase their transfer fee (as its pretty obvious which players he is talking about).

And yet again are we critizing the manager a week ahead of our first game. The board has to pay off their contracts,imo.

[Yousef]

"If they come and say ‘nah, I want to play for a bigger club’ then get someone to pick the phone up because we’ll do business".

That's surely referring to Taarabt :tagger:

[theblackmafia.]

"If they come and say ‘nah, I want to play for a bigger club’ then get someone to pick the phone up because we’ll do business".

That's surely referring to Taarabt :tagger:

Gotta be Anton!!

[WavyQPR]

"If they come and say ‘nah, I want to play for a bigger club’ then get someone to pick the phone up because we’ll do business".

That's surely referring to Taarabt :tagger:

of course it is...taarabt wont be going anywhere though...whod want him??..possible those mugs on the riverside..but will anyone realistically be that stupid?