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28th Jun 2015

Adel Taarabt has a right ol’ pop at former manager Harry Redknapp

Sour grapes

Darragh Murphy

Adel Taarabt is not one to let things go.

The Moroccan has taken a dig at Harry Redknapp, under whom he played at QPR, and branded him “a very bad manager.”

Player and manager had a public spat last year with Redknapp claiming the midfielder was “the worst professional” he had ever worked with.

But with Redknapp no longer the manager at Loftus Road and Taarabt having penned a deal with Benfica, many thought the row was a thing of the past.

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That is until this week when Taarabt spoke to The Sun about his former boss and he didn’t have a whole lot of nice things to say.

“I don’t think he [Redknapp] has the passion for the game like people think,” Taarabt said.

“Harry is not a bad person but he is a very bad coach and, for me, a very bad manager.”

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