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Redknapp blasts Quinn
PORTSMOUTH'S Harry Redknapp launched a furious tirade at Niall Quinn after the Sunderland chairman accused him of spending 'silly money' in the transfer market.
Redknapp said Quinn should mind his own business after accusing Portsmouth and other middle-ranking Premiership clubs of inflating prices by spending too much on players.
"I don't know why Niall's saying that. What's it got to do with Niall Quinn really?" Redknapp said after Portsmouth's Asia Trophy win.
"I never criticise what other clubs are doing, maybe that's why I've lasted so long.
"Why have they got to poke their noses in other people's business? They should worry about what Sunderland do this year and keep their own house in order."
Redknapp has signed six new players including Preston striker David Nugent for a reported six million pounds - a sum he said was matched by Sunderland.
"Niall Quinn offered the same money for Nugent as we did, so why's it silly money?" he said.
"They offered the same money but he chose to come to us rather than go to Sunderland. Maybe that's why Niall's upset."
Quinn, whose team has just returned to the Premiership under manager Roy Keane, had said agents were having an "absolute beano" as clubs splash out on new players.
"If I was going to spend a fortune on breaking the bank, I would be going after the players Liverpool or Manchester United wanted to sign," he told London newspaper Daily Mail.
"But, in the middle, people are fighting each other and raising the prices for the same players. You can see it with West Ham and Portsmouth.
"The agents are having an absolute beano. It's like a property market, where estate agents own half the property or, in West Ham's case, it looks like all the property."
Redknapp's Portsmouth edged Liverpool 4-2 on penalties to lift the Asia Trophy here late on Friday.
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29th July 2007, 12:28 PM
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