He’d be a lot less expensive.
If Harry Redknapp gets the England manager’s job (he won’t) then Dele Alli will be assured of his place. The former Tottenham Hotspur manager rates the player so highly he thinks he will be better than Paul Pogba, who has been heavily linked with a move to Manchester United for €120m.
Redknapp claims 20-year-old Alli would be a better signing in the long-term than 23-year-old Pogba.
“He’s a great player, there’s no doubt about that, but I wouldn’t swap him for Dele Alli,” Redknapp said in his column for a betting company.
“If you asked me, Dele Alli or Pogba who do you want? I’m taking Dele Alli in the long term.”
Redknapp, for seemingly one of the few times in his career, appears to have some issue with the mooted transfer fee.
“If I was the owners of Manchester United, I’d be very aggrieved that we actually let him go on a free transfer and we’ve now got to pay £100m to get him back.”
“I don’t think I’d like that, I think my pride would stop me from paying £100m for a player when we gave him away.”
Regardless of whether Harry has a point or not, his claims are still a lot less ludicrous than those of Alan Pardew.
The Crystal Palace manager has claimed “four or five” England players would get into France’s starting XI.
That’s the same England team that went out to a team coached by a dentist in the last-16 of Euro 2016, and the same France team preparing to play the final of the tournament.
