Harry Redknapp: "I had a good laugh this afternoon watching the interview from Newcastle.
"I thought it was one of the most amusing things I'd seen.
" 'How hard Newcastle had fought to keep him and pulled out all the stops and they had battled it all the way, even when he put in a transfer request'.
"Every time these clubs sell a player they seem to have to get the player to put in a transfer request to make it look like they did not want to sell him.
"He is a good prospect the boy, but I think they will be quite happy with the business they have done."