“I spoke to Harry [Redknapp], he was more reticent about it and told me to be careful. He talked about walking into QPR in a similar situation where it was a total shambles, a mess,” he said. “They were overloaded in certain positions, players had signed four-year contracts on massive money who he would never have been able to move in a million years. The one thing he said was I had to find out about the players. You think you can turn water into wine but you can’t if you’ve not got the product.”