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BillC79 2:13 Mon Oct 9
Dani on Harry Redknapp
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http://www.football365.com/news/ex-west-ham-loanee-why-i-lost-all-respect-for-redknapp
Former West Ham loanee Dani has told of how Harry Redknapp once ruined his chances of playing at Euro 1996.
Dani spent a few months at West Ham during the 1995/96 season on loan from Sporting Lisbon, and impressed during his short stay.
He scored two goals in nine Premier League games, and was on the verge of making Portugal’s squad for Euro 96.
But Redknapp ruined his chances by refusing to play the then-teenager in an effort to bring his value down for an eventual permanent transfer.
“I debuted with the Portuguese national team, in a matchday at the Parc des Prince and Wembley, against France and England respectively,” Dani told Tribuna Expresso.
“The manager told me he was counting on calling me up for Euro 96, to be played in England, due to how well I was performing for West Ham. If I carried on like that, he’d take me – I was excited.
“West Ham had the option to buy me after the season on loan, but the price would vary. At the time in England, it would work like the stock market – according to how you performed, your price would increase or decrease. It made me feel like nothing more than a piece of meat.
“When I arrived they were 16th and afterwards we quickly climbed to 7th or 8th. But with a month and a half of the season yet to be played, we had no chance to get into a European spot no did we have the chance to get relegated.
“We had a training camp in the south of Spain, in which they spent the entire time drinking beer and playing golf. We went for a run like once or twice that week. The manager, Harry Redknapp, had the nerve to tell me: ‘Now I’m going to take you off the team until the end of the season, so your price goes down and then we buy you.’
Dani went on to play for Ajax & Atletico, before retiring in 2003.
“I asked him not to do that since I had the chance of going to the Euros and without playing it would be unlikely. His answer was: ‘I don’t care. I couldn’t care less about the Euros and Portugal. I want to buy you so I can have you here next season, so you’re not playing anymore.’
“I tried fleeing to Portugal, but my agent and my father convinced me to return. Redknapp didn’t get along with me or with half of the players he managed – he has a terrible image. His son, Jamie Redknapp, is great, but he isn’t.
“We didn’t have a professional relationship anymore. He started saying I was a bad professional, that I smoked and other things.
“And then I misbehaved – angry at him for cutting my chances of going to the Euros as an 18-year-old. I’d go to practices just for the sake of being there, and wouldn’t respond if he talked to me or demanded anything during reserve team matches. If I had to arrive late or to skip practice, I’d do it. I lost all respect I had for him.”
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cholo
2:19 Mon Oct 9
Re: Dani on Harry Redknapp
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Sounds like the sort of thing harry would do. Dani failed to live up to expectation but I believe is well regarded by fans at Ajax.
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RBshorty
2:34 Mon Oct 9
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Arry a cunt.! Never.
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cornish
2:42 Mon Oct 9
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I wonder how many more managers do this sort of thing and more,you live and learn every day.
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monto
2:44 Mon Oct 9
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To ensure you get the player you want at the right price, you drop them and expect them to hang around?
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Grumpster
2:45 Mon Oct 9
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Our board(s) have been doing that with players for fucking years!!
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tnb
2:45 Mon Oct 9
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Does it sound like Redknapp? Yep. But did Dani go on to bigger and better things and get a reputation as a model pro? No. Didn't he retire at abot 27 as he couldn't get a club and take up modelling?
What Dani says about Harry is probably nearly 100% true. What Harry says about Dani is probably also partly true. Skillful player on his day but probably an example of two dodgy characters in their own ways meeting each other, and a situation that was never going to work.
Bilic was with us at the time wasn't he? Not that he is obliged to say anything but it would be interesting to hear his side of this if we ever did.
Porfirio was the better Portugese loanee around that time by some way anyway.
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charleyfarley
2:46 Mon Oct 9
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Dani on Louise Redknapp would be a better story
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Lily Hammer
2:53 Mon Oct 9
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So, Harry didn't pick him but fucked him after all.
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The Stoat
3:03 Mon Oct 9
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUJw1GbjkPw
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gph
4:26 Mon Oct 9
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Brilliant man-management by Harry - not only did he fuck up Dani's Euro chances, he openly told him he was doing it.
A git, and a daft one as well
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Gavros
4:31 Mon Oct 9
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he also wanted to fuck him by all accounts
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Far Cough
4:42 Mon Oct 9
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"play him or fuck him"
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Jaan Kenbrovin
6:44 Mon Oct 9
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Poor man's Ravel Morrison.
https://thesefootballtimes.co/2017/04/13/the-curious-case-of-portuguese-sensation-dani/
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ludo21
7:47 Mon Oct 9
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Aways thought it was a bit odd that one minute Dani was the next big thing (remember seeing him do well at Stamford Bridge) but next minute he just disapeared... story makes total sense to me. Redknapp is a dinasour that is thankfully now nearly extinct.
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Leonard Hatred
8:12 Mon Oct 9
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One of West Ham's most HANDSOME players.
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Eddie B
8:30 Mon Oct 9
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ludo, that was typical Redknapp. Remember that Finnish fella who played for us, some huge African called Christian Bassila or something, Foe, and various obscure people we'd sign from Bournemouth and then sell on in a month or two.
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PwoperNaughtyButNot
8:57 Mon Oct 9
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Scott Mean
I’d love that transfer to be fully investigated
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Alex Bunbury
9:38 Mon Oct 9
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We signed Steve Jones back from Bournemouth for half a million as well.
The Dani story has a ring of truth to it but to be honest he didn't have a massive impact for us and his career after seemed to fizzle out so just as well a move didn't materialise
Didn't he get the winner at White Hart Lane on his debut?
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Mr. Burns
9:43 Mon Oct 9
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"Didn't he get the winner at White Hart Lane on his debut?"
Yes and I believe it was also Bilic's debut as well.
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Eddie B
9:52 Mon Oct 9
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Keith Rowland and Paul Mitchell both signed from Bournemouth too.
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