Former Tottenham Hotspur boss Harry Redknapp has opened up on the day Peter Crouch left Tottenham and how he left chairman Daniel Levy unhappy in the process.
Crouch left Spurs on transfer deadline day in the summer of 2011, with Stoke City swooping for the striker in a £12m move as Levy and Redknapp brought Emmanuel Adebayor to the club on loan earlier in the window.
He scored 12 times in 73 league appearances for Spurs under Redknapp after arriving from Portsmouth but Levy was determined to let the player go to the Potters, as he recalled in a chat with his former manager.
“(It) was tough. I wanted to stay. We had the conversation in the office with me, you and Daniel Levy on loudspeaker," Crouch said on the Peter Crouch Podcast.
"Adebayor was coming in – I get it, he was trying to balance the books and they had an offer of £10 million from Stoke.
“I was digging my heels in a bit and Daniel wasn’t too pleased with that because it was deadline day.”
Redknapp is somewhat renowned for his relationship with striker Peter Crouch.
The two have enjoyed a long-lasting relationship in football, and they are also good friends off the field.
They reached the Champions League together at Spurs, Crouch scoring the decisive goal against Manchester City to secure qualification.
But how did the two first get the chance to work together?
Revealing how he signed Crouch for Portsmouth during his spell as director of football, Redknapp said: "Graham Rix was the manager at Pompey and I was director of football.
"I don't know what I was meant to be doing, it was the biggest waste of time ever that year.
"Anyway, Graham was pushing to sign Crouchy and I said to [chairman] Milan Mandaric 'Pete's a good player, he will do well for the club'. Milan said. 'Do you really expect me to pay £1m for a basketball player? Are you crazy'."
"He said, 'if we sign him, it's on your head. If he's no good, you take the blame'. At the end of the year we sold him for about £5.5m to Aston Villa and Milan said, 'I told you he was always going to be a player'."
