Tottenham Transfer News: Latest on Eden Hazard and Moussa Sissoko Rumours

Former Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp has revealed he once came close to signing Chelsea winger Eden Hazard. Redknapp also indicated he considered trying to bring then-Liverpool striker Luis Suarez to north London.

Speaking to TalkSport (h/t Joel Watson of the Daily Star), Redknapp revealed the extent of Tottenham’s interest in both players:

I was managing a Tottenham team I thought could go on and win the title, I genuinely believed that.

We got Louis Saha and Ryan Nelsen on free transfers – we were short, we had injuries at centre-half and I had no striker.

If we had gone out [and invested] then… Luis Suarez was the player we were looking at.

I met [Eden] Hazard and spent three hours with him in a hotel in Paris – I met him at the airport and he was dead keen to come to Tottenham.

We were right down the road with Hazard and Luis Suarez was the best player in the Premier League when he was at Liverpool, he was fantastic.

If we just got one of those in, we had a team that could have challenged for the title.

Redknapp referencing the deals for both striker Louis Saha and centre-back Ryan Nelsen puts the timeframe of this interest in early 2012. Both players joined Tottenham at the conclusion of the winter transfer window that year.

The curious thing is Redknapp’s Spurs were involved in a fairly typical tussle for a UEFA Champions League place with local rivals Arsenal during the 2011/12 season. Ironically, Tottenham would miss out on Champions League football the next season despite finishing fourth, one place behind Arsenal.

The irony is Chelsea denied Spurs a spot in Europe’s premier club competition by winning the Champions League after beating Bayern Munich on …

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