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“I TOLD ODEMWINGIE TO COME IN CASE WE COULD DO A DEAL – I DIDN’T MEAN TURN UP IN THE CAR PARK”

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FFT GRABS A WORD WITH…

HARRY REDKNAPP • GEREMI • PAUL PARKER • JAVIER SAVIOLA

Can you talk us through the ‘non-signing’ of Peter Odemwingie on January deadline day 2013, when you were QPR manager?

It was a mess-up. To be fair to him, I thought we had a good chance of signing him. I can remember saying to him around 5pm, “We’re not going to get much time to get this deal done – the best thing to do is travel down, so at least you’ll be in the area.” Then, if we got the deal done with West

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