For 50 years, Harry Redknapp has been one of football’s most colourful and outspoken characters. Now he’s written a book every fan will want to read. In A Man Walks On To a Pitch, Redknapp reveals how close he came to signing Patrick Vieira and Luis Suarez during his time as Tottenham manager. 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.’ VIDEO Scroll down to watch Luis Suarez kick the ball in a team-mate's face during training
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Harry Redknapp's latest book, A Man Walks On To a Pitch, is being serialised by Sportsmail this week
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Redknapp reveals that Vieira was willing to sign for Tottenham but circumstances changed and he stayed in Italy before joining Man City
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Redknapp was encouraged to sign Suarez by Ruud Gullit but delayed making a bid and was then priced out of a move by Ajax
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