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Pompey reject £12million bid for midfielder
Portsmouth have today rejected a club record bid from French side Monaco for star midfielder Niko Kranjcar. Manager Harry Redknapp has restated that Portsmouth are not a selling club and doesn't want to sell any of his best assets and doesn't have to.
Talking to The News Harry Redknapp said: 'Monaco have come in for Niko and offered around £12m for him. We wouldn't sell him and he didn't want to go anyway so that was the end of that one.
'No disrespect, but why would he want to go there anyway? They get 6,000 people watching them.
'You go there on a weekend and it's a unique experience, people aren't interested in the football. They all go out on the Saturday night and get dressed up for dinner, not to watch football.
'There's nothing with Sulley either, it's just paper talk about Juventus.
'We haven't spoken to anybody and I don't want to sell Sulley anyway.
'He's a top player – so is Niko.
'They are good young players, we don't have to let anyone leave and we definitely don't want to.
'They're going nowhere, nowhere at all.'
'I wouldn't want to sell my good players and I don't have to. I'm not saying they're all not good players but I wouldn't want to sell my best assets.
'I am trying to build a team here.
'We've got a good squad.'
Although the club is rejecting offers at the moment, every player does have their price, and with bidding on Kranjcar started will other interested teams such as Arsenal make an offer? If rumours in the press the last few days and the sale of yet another Arsenal player are anything to go by, we could expect an offer soon. With Redknapp already having stated that wide left midfield is an area he needs cover for Niko in, its highly unlikely we would let Kranjcar leave unless an unbelivable offer was made.
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£12Million? For a player who while showed great flashes of talent last season wasnt consistant, I think we are daft to turn down that kind of money.
Do see Harry's point about Monaco being a tiny team though, but dont they have Champions League football?