No matter how big have been in your career when it comes to sell something about you, you need some secret insides about your long lasting journey and it proved with many notables who recently wrote something unknown in their books just to sensationalize their product. We are talking about former Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp who is ready with his new book “A Man Walks On To a Pitch.” Among other things, he specifically talked about few players who he was very close to bring at White Hart Lane but eventually missed including likes of Luis Suarez and Arsenal captain Patrick Vieira. According to his disclosure, he said to have finalized the talks with both of them and suddenly none of them agreed to switch and decided to remain where they were; he suspected money influence played an important role otherwise Spurs would have been enjoying the services of two greatest players of contemporary soccer. The 67-year-old, who is now in-charge of Queens Park Rangers, considers letdown to sign Suarez as his biggest failure and still doesn’t believe that Uruguayan chose Liverpool later.
While adding about Vieira, he suspects it was the rivalry between the two sides that did not let him freely chose the next destination. Nonetheless, he fulfilled his dreams by signing another former Arsenal captain William Gallas after his contract with Emirates Stadium side expired. Mentioning about his biggest regrets he said in his book, “Patrick Vieira was a different type of midfield player and one every club would like to take now. He almost came to me at Tottenham from Inter Milan. I thought it was an incredible decision by him, after he’d been such a hero at Arsenal. I met him at his house in Hampstead and he had no fear about what people would think or what reception he would get. He had enough confidence in his ability to just brush it away.
“I remember talking to Daniel Levy, our chairman, about him. He said the crowd would be hostile. I knew that — but if he had enough bottle to want to put on our white shirt after all that had gone before, I thought it said something about the man.”
About Suarez, he did not mind saying, “Despite all that has happened in his career since, one of the biggest regrets of my life in management is not taking Luis Suarez to Tottenham when we had the chance.”