HARRY REDKNAPP as soon as instructed a reporter to "F*** off" after being known as a "Wheeler-dealer" in a TV interview - nevertheless it's truthful to say the previous West Ham and Tottenham supervisor did have a nostril for a discount.
Regardless of bringing Paolo Di Canio to West Ham, Robbie Keane to Tottenham and Niko Kranjcar to a few of the golf equipment he managed, not all of his signings labored out so nicely.
Solar Sport columnist Redknapp, 75, who has this week been linked with a shock return to administration with struggling Leeds, revealed his worst transfers throughout his time within the hit present I am a Superstar in 2018.
Whereas there are a couple of names which may spring to thoughts together with Paulo Futre, Bongani Khumalo and Titi Camara, it was two different West Ham signings that Redknapp deemed his worst.
Redknapp was supervisor of the Hammers from 1994 to 2001 and signed practically 50 gamers throughout his time in East London.
Marco Boogers was signed by Redknapp for £800,000 from Sparta Rotterdam in 1995 after the supervisor was proven a video of him trying "completely different class."
The Dutchman featured solely 4 occasions for West Ham and didn't begin a single recreation. He was despatched off early in his Hammers profession after a horrific problem on Gary Neville at Outdated Trafford earlier than going lacking quickly after.
Boogers failed to seek out the online in claret and blue and based mostly on Redknapp's feedback, that's hardly stunning.
Redknapp stated: "Proper from the phrase go Boogers' angle stank. He was among the many stragglers on the again every time we went for a run, he did not need to work, he was lazy and the gamers all took an immediate dislike to him.
"I suppose you can say he may play a bit, however actually he was nowhere close to as spectacular because the video had made him out to be.
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"He was declared 'psychologically unfit for soccer' - which solely meant he'd persuaded a health care provider to give you some excuse why he could not return - and disappeared someplace again house."
He added: "We ultimately discovered him hiding out in a caravan in Holland and solely obtained him again by studying him the riot act.
"However his angle was no higher when he returned and we obtained shot of him to Groningen within the Dutch league."
The opposite man Redknapp wished he had by no means signed was Romanian striker Florin Raducioiu, who Redknapp purchased from Espanyol for £1.5million in August 1996. He had been impressed by his performances for Romania at Euro 96 the place he scored his nation's solely objective of the match.
Though initially impressed, it shortly turned clear to Redknapp that the Romanian was not going to chop it.
He stated: "I labored for a few hours with Raducioiu on the primary day in coaching and I need to admit he impressed me. He was a high quality finisher and I actually thought he'd be a hit.
"However the second we obtained into something bodily, he did not need to know.
"He simply could not face being tackled in any form or type. Dicksy was anxious to get caught in to him to see what he was manufactured from, however Raducioiu made it clear that he would not be difficult for something."
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He added: "In his first two friendlies, Raducioiu did nothing however moan concerning the tough remedy he was getting from opposition centre-halves.
"Do not ask me to clarify how a former world class participant can all of the sudden turn out to be a fairy, however one thing had clearly occurred to Raducioiu and he'd utterly misplaced it.
"He'd been used to queuing for 3 hours in Bucharest for a loaf of bread and all of the sudden he was sporting a £28,000 watch. Maybe the transition was an excessive amount of for him."
The Romanian solely featured 11 occasions for West Ham and managed to attain two objectives however Redknapp was not the one one he struggled to persuade.
Paulo Futre, one other Redknapp flop, reportedly known as him a "large woman" in a coaching floor confrontation.
Redknapp's endurance lastly ran out when Raducuioiu failed to show up for a League Cup tie at Stockport, which the Hammers went on to lose.
He stated: "You'll be able to think about my temper the subsequent day when a good friend rang me and instructed me the earlier night he'd noticed Raducioiu out buying along with his spouse within the Harvey Nichols retailer in London.
"I knew then I needed to eliminate him nevertheless it wasn't simple."
Raducioiu lastly left Upton Park in January 1997, returning to Espanyol.
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