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Harry Redknapp bemoans lack of squad depth as he prepares for QPR's FA Cup third round clash with Sheffield United.
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SOUNDBITE: (English), Harry Redknapp:
"No, we haven't got a big squad. We are sort of working with 19, 19 maximum outfield players. So a lot of the lads will have to go again on Sunday for sure. It would have been nice to go again on Sunday on the back of a win today obviously. That would have made a big difference to us all."
SOUNDBITE: (English), Harry Redknapp:
"You are going to find that 90 per cent of the teams, the bigger teams, they're going to put their better teams out in the later rounds. A few years ago, everybody went for the cup - I think nowadays everybody is either trying to get in the Champions League, or into Europe or staying in the division and everybody messes about with their teams, don't they now, in the early rounds? It's only in the later rounds you'll probably see, quarter finals everybody starts seeing they've got a chance of doing it. Even in the Carling Cup (Capital One Cup) the other week you saw teams making loads of changes in the quarter finals. The league has become all important, to be in the Premier League."
SOUNDBITE: (English), Harry Redknapp:
"Well we haven't got such big squads have we? You know everyone has got a 25 man squad, we've got 24 really, three 'keepers then we've got four or five injured. So it's very difficult to - and some older players - it's difficult to be as strong as you'd like to be."
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Redknapp bemoans small QPR squad
Saturday, January 03 2015Category:Soccer