he does it every f***ing time!
and £2.5m for carrick??? is he pissed? (i take it he's talking pre-spuds, but still, thats a random mention)
That's straight up. Carrick was waiting for a bid from Arsenal, never came, Pompey offered £2.5m. Spurs gazumped them with a bid of £3m.
We could have signed him as well. Moyes wouldn't budge on his valuation of Carrick, think we lost out for the sake of 250k.
Don't recall Pompey ever being mentioned as in the running for him at the time so I was surprised by Redknapp's comment.
bobby robson claims he could have had him, but freddy wouldnt pay the money, and due to west hams financial situation, coupled with him being a geordie, he thought he would have held out and joined us for even cheaper as west hams crisis deepened, he didn't, and he later went for an astronomical fee.