Spurs begin their Carling Cup campaign on Tuesday night when they take on Stoke at the Britannia Stadium and will make several changes to the side that beat Liverpool 4-0. Redknapp will still include the likes of William Gallas, Sandro and Heurelho Gomes in his team, though - and fully expects to progress to the fourth round. QPR manager Neil Warnock said he was glad to see the back of the competition when his team crashed out to Rochdale last month and other managers criticise the competition on a yearly basis. But Redknapp values the Cup, which Spurs won under his predecessor Juande Ramos in 2008, and he now wants to follow in the Spaniard's footsteps and make the trophy his first as Tottenham manager. Redknapp said: "I can't understand how teams that are mid-table and not going to get in to Europe just don't go for it. I don't know why they don't care about it. "Birmingham won it last year. What a great day for them that was. "Tottenham had a great day when they beat Chelsea to win it (in 2008). "I want to go all the way to Wembley in it if I can. "I will do it by juggling my team around if I can because we are in Europe but I will go there tomorrow with a team that I feel can win the game. "We'll be looking to have William Gallas, Sandro, Vedran Corluka, Sebastien Bassong, Roman Pavlyuchenko. That's not a bad team is it?" "Once we push on in the competition I will be looking to win it." Redknapp thinks one way of making the Cup more attractive would be to give the winners a guaranteed place in the Europa League group stages and ditch the idea of teams being able to qualify for Europe via the Fair Play League. "We should do away with the Fair Play place," Redknapp said. "Fulham got that last year and they tried to do everything they could to get out of it." Redknapp could face three players on Tuesday night who he let go this summer. Peter Crouch and Wilson Palacios joined the Potters in a £20million double deal and Jonathan Woodgate signed on a free transfer after his contract at White Hart Lane expired. Woodgate made just 65 appearances in three and a half years at Spurs due to several bad injuries but if Redknapp had his way he would have kept him. "I wanted to keep Jonathan. I wouldn't have let him go," Redknapp said. "He came back on the first day of pre-season. He was convinced he was fit. I spoke to him in the summer but there were problems with his insurance. "It was gutting but I can see the club's point of view. He had barely kicked a ball in two years." An own goal against Sunderland aside, Woodgate has made a good impression at the Britannia Stadium and Redknapp hopes the former England defender can get back to his best. "If he can stay fit he is one of the best. He and Ledley King are up there with the John Terrys and Rio Ferdinands of the world," added Redknapp, who was also not too keen on letting Crouch and Palacios leave. "I like Crouchy as well. He wasn't one I was mad to get rid of," he said. "Wilson's deal was dependent on Crouchy going. I was looking at the time to bring Gary Cahill in and we needed to raise some money to do that, and bring in Scott Parker, so we ended up getting around about £20million for the two."
