Underground Fox
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This, a press conference with Redknapp, seems to give the clearest indication of what this investigation is about.
As I read it, providing the payment to the Agent by the club was declared and in order it comes down solely to the agent making a payment to Faye. I read somewhere else yesterday that the agent has said he provided a 'loan' to Faye at the time.
The dawn raids seem dramatic if this is all it is...
from Guardian online
"Harry Redknapp today said that the investigation into alleged football corruption is "nothing whatsoever to do with me", and that he was "bitterly disappointed" police had turned up at his home at 6am when his wife was there alone.
The Portsmouth manager was one of five men - including Pompey's chief executive, Peter Storrie, and the club's former owner Milan Mandaric - arrested yesterday by police investigating alleged bungs in the game.
But at today's press conference, an emotional Redknapp claimed that police had targeted him to "raise the profile" of their investigation. "I still feel I was only called in because I have a high profile, I add a bit of a profile to the investigation," said Redknapp. "This has nothing whatsoever to do with me."
Redknapp revealed he had been questioned regarding agents' fees. "The whole crux of the meeting was the fact that an agent had been paid an agent's fee and had paid some of the money to the player," he said. "I was wondering what I was doing there, I'm not involved in what an agent and a player does. I'm not involved."
The treatment of his wife, however, was the prime source of Redknapp's ire. "I was particularly disappointed that the police should come knocking on my door with photographers from a well-known tabloid newspaper," he said. "[My wife] was absolutely petrified and if that's the way to treat someone that's not the world I was brought up in."
As I read it, providing the payment to the Agent by the club was declared and in order it comes down solely to the agent making a payment to Faye. I read somewhere else yesterday that the agent has said he provided a 'loan' to Faye at the time.
The dawn raids seem dramatic if this is all it is...
from Guardian online
"Harry Redknapp today said that the investigation into alleged football corruption is "nothing whatsoever to do with me", and that he was "bitterly disappointed" police had turned up at his home at 6am when his wife was there alone.
The Portsmouth manager was one of five men - including Pompey's chief executive, Peter Storrie, and the club's former owner Milan Mandaric - arrested yesterday by police investigating alleged bungs in the game.
But at today's press conference, an emotional Redknapp claimed that police had targeted him to "raise the profile" of their investigation. "I still feel I was only called in because I have a high profile, I add a bit of a profile to the investigation," said Redknapp. "This has nothing whatsoever to do with me."
Redknapp revealed he had been questioned regarding agents' fees. "The whole crux of the meeting was the fact that an agent had been paid an agent's fee and had paid some of the money to the player," he said. "I was wondering what I was doing there, I'm not involved in what an agent and a player does. I'm not involved."
The treatment of his wife, however, was the prime source of Redknapp's ire. "I was particularly disappointed that the police should come knocking on my door with photographers from a well-known tabloid newspaper," he said. "[My wife] was absolutely petrified and if that's the way to treat someone that's not the world I was brought up in."
