Former EPL side Queens Park Rangers Manager Harry Redknapp has revealed "he may return to football as part of a consortium." The 67-year-old, who resigned last week citing knee problems, "has been linked with a group looking to buy a club near his home on the Dorset coast." Redknapp: "It's something that could interest me, I'd just like to be involved. I spoke to people about one or two bits and pieces that may come up but at the moment it's not gone that far" (BBC, 2/8). ... Chelsea Manager Jose Mourinho "has repeated his call for clubs who breach European governing body UEFA's Financial Fair Play rules to be stripped of their titles and docked points." Mourinho said, "I don't think a team can be champions when you are punished because you didn't comply with Financial Fair Play." Many will see his comments "as a thinly-veiled attack on Premier League rivals Manchester City." Mourinho: "I enjoy the challenge of the English competition. The only thing that is not nice is that you compete against the ones who don't follow the same rules" (THE AGE, 2/7). ... The Japan FA said Friday that "the new Japan manager will be a foreigner from a shortlist of around five, and it hopes to have him in place by the start of the new J.League season." JFA Technical Dir Masahiro Shimoda "made it clear following an emergency technical committee meeting held at the JFA House that the new coach will not be Japanese" (KYODO, 2/6).
