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29th November 2016
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"I was managing a Tottenham team that I thought could go on and win the title, I genuinely believed that," he said.
And he says he got even closer to bringing Hazard to White Hart Lane. "I spent three hours with Hazard in a hotel room in Paris – I met him at the airport - he was dead keen to come to Tottenham." [caption id="attachment_100110" align="alignnone" width="1024"]"I took Louis Saha and Ryan Nelsen on free transfers [in 2012] – we were short, we had injuries at centre half and I had no striker.
"If we had gone out [and spent money] then... Luis Suarez was a player that we were looking at."
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"We were right down the road with Hazard and Luis Suarez was the best player in the Premier League a few years ago 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."
Instead it was Liverpool that bought Suarez in January 2011, before he joined Barcelona three years later. Hazard signed for Chelsea in 2012 - the same summer Harry was sacked by Spurs. Catch up with this week's episode of Football Friday LiveExplore more on these topics:
