Luka Modric has been discussing his time at Tottenham and working under Harry Redknapp ahead of Real Madrid's Champions League showdown away at Liverpool on Tuesday evening
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Real Madrid star Luka Modric reveals what Harry Redknapp used to sing to his Tottenham players
Luka Modric has been discussing his time at Tottenham and working under Harry Redknapp ahead of Real Madrid's Champions League showdown away at Liverpool on Tuesday evening
Luka Modric has admitted that Harry Redknapp played a "very important" role in helping him go all the way to the top in his career. Joining Tottenham in the summer of 2008 from Dinamo Zagreb, it wouldn't be long before he worked under Redknapp after Juande Ramos was dismissed two months into the 2008/09 campaign.
We played 4-4-2 at Tottenham. I was on the left wing. Gareth [Bale] was behind me, imagine," said the Croat on
Rio Ferdinand’s Between the Lines. "And then Harry [Redknapp] one game, when he came after six/seven games he came to Tottenham and he decided to put me in the midfield like a number 6 with two midfielders.”
On Redknapp's influence on him, he added: “Very important, great guy, great coach. He gives every player so much confidence in him, that is amazing. I remember when he put me in the middle, after Gareth changed from left-back to left-winger, we had Aaron Lennon on the right and the two strikers had a lot of speed in the team. I remember he used to sing ‘give the ball to Luka’. He makes you feel important. He gives you so much confidence.
"These four years that we played with him, that he was our coach, it was so good. We played so well. Unfortunately we couldn’t win something but because your team [Man Utd] at the time were very strong, other teams were very strong and we couldn’t but we played some great football at the time.”
. Just me then ?
