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Redknapp SHOCKER: Spurs scouts told me to ignore Suarez

QPR boss Harry Redknapp admits failing to sign Barcelona striker Luis Suarez is one of his biggest regrets.

Redknapp makes the revelation about the former Liverpool star in A Man Walks On To a Pitch, which is being serialised in the Daily Mail.

"Despite all that has happened in his career since, one of the biggest regrets of my life in management is not taking Luis Suarez to Tottenham when we had the chance.

"'You've got to take him, Harry,' Ruud Gullit told me. 'He's fantastic.'

"Yet all of our scouts' reports said that at Ajax he played wide off a striker, whereas we were looking for a proper front man.

"Just when I was on the verge of taking the plunge, the price went up. In the end he was sold for £22.8million to Liverpool. We wouldn't have paid that."

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