{"id":438236,"date":"2011-06-08T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/08\/we-tried-to-sign-phil-jones-before-manchester-united-tottenham-boss-harry-redknapp\/"},"modified":"2011-06-08T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T16:35:00","slug":"we-tried-to-sign-phil-jones-before-manchester-united-tottenham-boss-harry-redknapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/08\/we-tried-to-sign-phil-jones-before-manchester-united-tottenham-boss-harry-redknapp\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We tried to sign Phil Jones before Manchester United&#8217; &#8211; Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Will Jardine<\/h3>\n<h4>8 Jun 2011 17:35:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"75.8486055777\">\n<div readability=\"11.8235294118\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Harry Redknapp, Tottenham\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/125300\/125338_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Harry Redknapp, Tottenham<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/105\/tottenham\">Tottenham<\/a> manager <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/13420\/harry-redknapp\">Harry Redknapp<\/a> has revealed that he tried to sign <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/97\/man-utd\">Manchester United<\/a> target <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/34529\/phil-jones\">Phil Jones<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Jones is expected to complete a medical today and sign a 5-year contract at the Old Trafford club for a fee in the region of \u00a316 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Speaking to <em>talkSPORT<\/em>, the Spurs manager said: \u201cI think he\u2019s an amazing young talent and he could easily go on and become an England centre-half in years to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI was in for Phil Jones. We were interested in him but it looks like he\u2019s gone to Manchester United,\u201d admitted .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think he\u2019s a great singing for Man United.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe\u2019re struggling to find people that are better than what we\u2019ve got. It\u2019s not easy unless you pay massive money and massive wages.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Redknapp has also backed Jordan Henderson to be a success at Anfield.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Henderson is close to completing a \u00a320m switch to Merseyside in the next 48 hours before he flies out to Denmark for the Under-21 European Championships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m sure Kenny\u2019s Dalglish had his eye on him for a while and he\u2019s a shrewd judge,\u201d said Redknapp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHe\u2019s Henderson a good young player.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf he thinks he\u2019s worth the money then I wouldn\u2019t want to argue with him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>See the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/06\/08\/2523554\/we-tried-to-sign-phil-jones-before-manchester-united\" title=\"'We tried to sign Phil Jones before Manchester United' - Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;We tried to sign Phil Jones before Manchester United&#8217; &#8211; Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Will Jardine 8 Jun 2011 17:35:00 Harry Redknapp, Tottenham Related Links Teams Players Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has revealed that he tried to sign Manchester United target Phil Jones . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":438237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-438236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;We tried to sign Phil Jones before Manchester United&#039; - Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/08\/we-tried-to-sign-phil-jones-before-manchester-united-tottenham-boss-harry-redknapp\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"&#039;We tried to sign Phil Jones before Manchester United&#039; 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