This has left Redknapp with no option but to have to sell more valuable players such as Sully Muntari and Pedro Mendes.

"I had some opportunities to sell players but they wouldn't go!" he claimed.

"Pedro was way up my list of players I wanted to sell. The ones who could've been sold suddenly had good opportunities to move to good clubs but didn't want to move.

"They're probably in the comfort zone here and are quite happy not to be in the team but to do their little bit and plod along really.

"For Pedro, it is a move he fancied when it was put to him, Glasgow Rangers, and we had to do it financially so we move on."