I tried to sign Tevez for Tottenham in January

I tried to sign Tevez for Tottenham in January – Redknapp

Apr 28, 2012 8:41:00 AM

Spurs boss reveals that the opinion-dividing Argentine was his "dream" target over the winter but that the club could not stump up the cash to buy him from Manchester City

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has revealed that he tried to sign Carlos Tevez from Manchester City in January before being priced out of the deal.

The controversial Argentine had been widely expected to depart in the winter transfer window, having publicly fallen out with Roberto Mancini and jetted to his homeland rather than continue to play for City, but has since returned to action for his club.

“I said to the chairman ‘Can you get me Carlos Tevez?’ That’s what I said in January. ‘Can we get Tevez?’ It wasn’t possible, but that was my dream,” Redknapp told the Daily Mirror.

“Daniel [Levy, Spurs chairman] would have loved Tevez, but it wasn’t do-able because his wages are whatever they are – £200,000 a week. It was not possible at Tottenham to buy him.

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“With Tevez, it was me thinking: ‘He’s not in the team, he’s fallen out with Mancini’. You don’t know, do you, unless you ask. It was just a little try.

“Tevez is a fantastic player, whatever you think of what he has done off the pitch. When he puts a shirt on he doesn’t stop running, working. He’s enthusiastic, he can play and he can score goals.

“He’s fantastic. He’s never tired because he’s had four months playing golf, so he wouldn’t have asked for a rest,” the Spurs boss added, referencing loaned-out defender Vedran Corluka’s comments that the 65-year-old’s failure to rotate his players was ruining the team’s top-four chances.

“We tried to get Gary Cahill, but Chelsea came in and paid him a lot more wages than we could, so we lost him,” Redknapp added.

In response to recent criticism of Tottenham’s slump in form, the manager was dismissive, observing: “We have been around in football long enough to know it’s a fickle game.

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“You lose a couple of games and you’re a mug, you win a couple and you’re a genius. I’m just the same person I was six months ago, three months ago.

“I haven’t done anything different with the players, training is the same, I talk to them the same, they eat the same food, they come in at the same time.

“I lost a few players, other than that nothing has changed.”

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