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Bullet 5:38 Wed Aug 24
Harry says West Ham can be 'biggest club in England'

Harry Redknapp: West Ham United can be 'biggest club in England' following London Stadium move
Exclusive: The 69-year-old, who managed the Hammers for seven years across the turn of the millennium, says his former employers should be challenging for Champions League football

Harry Redknapp has backed West Ham to overtake Manchester United and Liverpool to become the “biggest club in England” after trading the Boleyn Ground for the London Stadium.

The 69-year-old, who managed the Hammers for seven years across the turn of the millennium, says his former employers should be challenging for Champions League football in the coming seasons after moving to the 60,000-capacity former Olympic Stadium.

Addressing the potential for homesickness in the early months of their maiden campaign in Stratford, former Tottenham boss Redknapp said: “Maybe on the pitch they may [struggle to settle] but I could see them finishing seventh or eighth again this year.

“If you look at the teams in the Premier League it could be tough, but in the long term I think it’s a great move for the club. It’s going to take them onto another level. 60,000-odd people every week at the stadium … what is the value of West Ham now? It’s gone on to a completely different level. It can be massive.

“I used to get upset when I heard people say ‘it’s not a big club’. West Ham’s always been a big club. They didn’t have a big stadium, but it’s always been a big club. You’re not a small club when you produce three players who played in a World Cup final winning team.

“It’s always been a club which has produced its own players – it’s getting tougher now – but they’ve always played, in the main, good, attractive football.

“They got good support even when they were relegated; their support stays with them. It’s a big club and now they’ve gone to a big stadium, they’ve proved it with selling 50,000 season tickets so I think the future looks fantastic.”

Heaping praise on co-chairmen David Sullivan and David Gold – as well as delivering a glowing reference for vice-chairman Karren Brady – Redknapp expects the east London club to eventually be sold on to foreign investors in the future, but not before launching an assault on the top-four.

“In years to come, definitely,” he added. “It’s like everything, isn’t it? Now they’re sitting on a goldmine of a football club which is one of the most valuable clubs anywhere.

Their assets are so big, they can invest more and more into the playing side, which I think they will, and they’ll want to get Champions League football themselves.

“If they decide to sell, there will be people wanting to buy West Ham in the next 10 years, for sure. They’re in their sixties, seventies, they’re not going to keep it forever. So when they do sell and suddenly we get somebody coming from China, or from somewhere in Asia, like they did at Manchester City, it could be the biggest club in England.

“It will happen one day, for sure, Gold and Sullivan have done a brilliant job. Karren Brady has done a magnificent job, what she’s done has been unbelievable. When they’ve had enough, or when they get too old, and they decide to sell it, someone’s going to buy it.

“Even they will invest now they know what they’re sitting on. Their assets are so big, they can invest more and more into the playing side, which I think they will, and they’ll want to get Champions League football themselves.”

Sir Alf 12:29 Thu Aug 25
Re: Harry says West Ham can be 'biggest club in England'

PistonHammered 8:43 Wed Aug 24

ag ag!

You might be right too :-)

This bloke will say whatever he thinks gets him listened to.

Harry is a "glad handing" old piss head. Harmless enough but best not to take anything he says too seriously.

eswing hammer 12:13 Thu Aug 25
Re: Harry says West Ham can be 'biggest club in England'

Nagel don't stick up for him he mugged us right off when he was at Spurs ,'' I,m at a big club now, sure he's a good player of course l'd like him here ,but he belongs to West Ham (
Bellamy) ,somebody said he wants to come here'' l remember redknapp alright!

Nagel 12:04 Thu Aug 25
Re: Harry says West Ham can be 'biggest club in England'

But wasn't that when the plan was still to have a running track? Because that was his major issue with the stadium and he didn't seem to fancy the idea of Spurs having it either.

eswing hammer 11:58 Wed Aug 24
Re: Harry says West Ham can be 'biggest club in England'

Yes but l remember him saying '' why do West Ham want the Oylmpic stadium ,it will be the end of them !''

Nagel 11:54 Wed Aug 24
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eswing hammer 11:42 Wed Aug 24

If you actually read the article from 2011 and not just the headline, Harry was talking about having the stadium with a running track, as was the original plan. I think he was spot on in what he said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1349163/West-Hams-plans-Olympic-Stadium-turn-graveyard-says-Harry-Redknapp.html

gph 11:47 Wed Aug 24
Re: Harry says West Ham can be 'biggest club in England'

Biggest club in the bipedosphere, more like - we're fucked when the Proxima Centurians pitch up, though...

eswing hammer 11:42 Wed Aug 24
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When he was Spurs manager he said lots of stuff like this ,

Hammers warning: Harry Redknapp fears West Ham will ruin the Olympic Stadium

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1349160/What-pages-say-Harry-Redknapp-fears-West-Ham-turn-Olympic-Stadium-desolate-graveyard-football-gangs-Gerrard-Houllier.html#ixzz4IHnrxTwd
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charleyfarley 9:13 Wed Aug 24
Re: Harry says West Ham can be 'biggest club in England'

I'm disappointed in Sullivan and Gold, the least they could have done is name one of the suites "The Brown Envelope" after him

PistonHammered 8:43 Wed Aug 24
Re: Harry says West Ham can be 'biggest club in England'

The ramblings of another dementia victim.

Sad really.

Johnson 8:41 Wed Aug 24
Re: Harry says West Ham can be 'biggest club in England'

Are you taking the piss Romford?

Vexed 8:40 Wed Aug 24
Re: Harry says West Ham can be 'biggest club in England'

Absolute gash that Romford.

Romfordboy 8:29 Wed Aug 24
Re: Harry says West Ham can be 'biggest club in England'

We have spent 7m in a reserve left back!!

Not many teams can do that...

BulphanIron 8:27 Wed Aug 24
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Are we going to win 5 European Cups or 20 League titles then?

Vexed 8:05 Wed Aug 24
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We probably could become one of the big clubs in England with the right backing and ambition.

I'm not seeing it this window though.

mentor 7:59 Wed Aug 24
Re: Harry says West Ham can be 'biggest club in England'

I see the same old wankers continue to slag off our club. Why don't you all just slink away? You're not wanted.

Eindhoven Hammer 7:14 Wed Aug 24
Re: Harry says West Ham can be 'biggest club in England'

The cunt said Bywater would play for England when he signed. Also said Hayden Foxe was one of the best young centre halves playing in Europe and signed him from Ajax's reserves!

Mike Oxsaw 6:33 Wed Aug 24
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We've even got a couple of dodgy missionaries ensconced under the movable seating, just in case...

BulphanIron 6:32 Wed Aug 24
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Never happening, not that it matters...

Eric Hitchmoe 6:20 Wed Aug 24
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I'm sure this is a re-hash of an older interview. Either that or Harry spouts the same old tosh over and over again.

subcutaneous 6:15 Wed Aug 24
Re: Harry says West Ham can be 'biggest club in England'

RESIGN, REDKNAPPED, YOU BAGGY FACED CUNT!

Gavros 6:15 Wed Aug 24
Re: Harry says West Ham can be 'biggest club in England'

he's been listening to the SAGE ADVICE of a relative of his, methinks.

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