Redknapp hopes for City regret

Spurs boss believes top-four rivals blundered over Hart deal

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Redknapp hopes for City regret

Redknapp: Fulop loan is 'no big deal'

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Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp acknowledges that fellow UEFA Champions League-hopefuls Manchester City made a mistake in failing to put a recall clause in Joe Hart's loan deal.

City No.1 Shay Given is out of his side's three remaining games after dislocating his shoulder during last week's 0-0 draw against Arsenal.

With Faroe Islands international Gunnar Nielsen the only fit goalkeeper at Eastlands, City applied to the Premier League for an emergency loan and subsequently drafted in Sunderland's Marton Fulop to face Aston Villa on Saturday.

Mancini had been keen to recall Hart from his loan spell at Birmingham, but the Blues refused and the Premier League would have probably rejected the application, fearing that City would have had an unfair advantage over their rivals.

Ahead of Tottenham's match against Bolton at White Hart Lane on Saturday, Redknapp said: "They were talking about getting Hart back but there was no clause in the deal to bring him back.

"You need to put the clause in the contract if you want him back, if you get injuries that's the key. It was probably an oversight on their part. They should have put it in.

"We haven't complained about it at all, it's no big deal.

"Fulop used to play at Spurs before I came here. The lads here say he was a good goalkeeper. It'll be a tough test for him tomorrow though, Villa are on good form."