My 26 years of being a Coventry City fan (1 Viewer)

CJ_covblaze · May 2, 2017

Feel free to add any other bits and pieces

ajsccfc · May 2, 2017

I've never heard that Henry and Trezeguet thing before, is that legit?

ccfcway · May 2, 2017

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CJ_covblaze · May 2, 2017

ajsccfc said:
I've never heard that Henry and Trezeguet thing before, is that legit?

Yep!

Liquid Gold · May 2, 2017

CJ_covblaze said:
Yep!

I've heard it but never seen anything that backs it up. I'm pretty sure it's just rumours.

CJ_covblaze · May 2, 2017

I can't remember who it was that told me now but it was someone at the club. Seen something in the CT at some point too.

NorthernWisdom · May 2, 2017

CJ_covblaze said:
I can't remember who it was that told me now but it was someone at the club. Seen something in the CT at some point too.

Pretty sure it was mentioned in Staying Up.

That being said, it's all redundant as we'd have tried to convert them to full-backs, then released them to careers in the Belgian lower leagues.

ajsccfc · May 2, 2017

We'd definitely have ruined them somehow. Imagine the alternative universe where we're lumping Thierry Henry on the list of Ellery Cairo and Runar Normann.

Joy Division · May 2, 2017

It was in the Staying Up book by Rick Gekoski yes. Certainly was Trezeguet but wasn't the other player Ruud Van Nistelrooy?

NorthernWisdom · May 2, 2017

Joy Division said:
It was in the Staying Up book by Rick Gekoski yes. Certainly was Trezeguet but wasn't the other player Ruud Van Nistelrooy?

He was one as well.

But a bit like Ranson having nearly signed Andy Carroll, think these type of things take on a life of their own once a player becomes successful. You never hear how we came this close to signing Michael Ricketts, after all!

ajsccfc · May 2, 2017

Phil Masinga and Alexi Lalas are the nearly men I remember most. We must have signed Cobi Jones after Lalas said no purely because we were determined to come back with something, like when you panic buy a massive Toblerone in duty free.

Brylowes · May 5, 2017

ajsccfc said:
Phil Masinga and Alexi Lalas are the nearly men I remember most. We must have signed Cobi Jones after Lalas said no purely because we were determined to come back with something, like when you panic buy a massive Toblerone in duty free.

Chris Coleman and Lee Bowyer were nearly men as well, also who were the two from
Rangers who were almost over the line, only for them to pull the plug last minute.

skybluesam66 · May 5, 2017

others include
Keegan - too small
Gerrard - we ended up with David thompson
Kevin Beattie - medical
Martin o neill
Trevor Francis - didnt go to £1m

Terry Gibson's perm · May 5, 2017

Neil Lennon was another who nearly signed, but nothing beats Robert Jarni

Irish Sky Blue · May 5, 2017

Brian Clough as manager. Also Malcolm Alison although that was an escape seeing how badly he did away from Joe Mercer.

albatross · May 5, 2017

I remember when we had Chris Marsden on loan . Rave Reviews from the press especially down at Spurs, always seemed to have time on the ball , pulling all the strings in the team.......and then they let him collect his boots on the last day of his loan period and then go and sign for wolves..... think we got Sandy Robertson (from Gers) to replace him. Cursed Phil Neale for weeks.....and weeks....

Leamington Pete · May 5, 2017

Never known one player transform a team like Marden did for us during that spell. Bloody Phil Neal.

ovduk78 · May 5, 2017

Brylowes said:
who were the two from
Rangers who were almost over the line, only for them to pull the plug last minute.

I think they were Neil McCann & Jorge Albertz

Esoterica · May 5, 2017

Brylowes said:
Chris Coleman and Lee Bowyer were nearly men as well, also who were the two from
Rangers who were almost over the line, only for them to pull the plug last minute.

I thought we nearly got Richard Rufus together with Lee Bowyer too

albatross · May 5, 2017

Defo Jorge "the hammer" Albertz. Used to work in Glasgow and they were pretty convinced he was moving to us.

shmmeee · May 5, 2017

Didn't we nearly sign Pavel Nedved then he had a stormer in an international competition and went to Juventus or something?

Pay attention Sisu: that is how you drive the club tens of millions into debt: in fucking style. Say what you want about Richarse, but it was fun being a fan at the time. And cost us the same as Sisu's tenure.

Skyblueweeman · May 5, 2017

albatross said:
Defo Jorge "the hammer" Albertz. Used to work in Glasgow and they were pretty convinced he was moving to us.

Wasn't one Nacho Novo as well?

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ovduk78 · May 5, 2017

Skyblueweeman said:
Wasn't one Nacho Novo as well?

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He was but he was a bit later, Strachan was manager when we tried to buy Albertz & McCann, can't remember who was in charge when we tried to buy Novo. I think we agreed a fee of £500k with Rangers but he chose to stay with Rangers.

Skybluefaz · May 5, 2017

Nedved had a terrific euro 96 so went to Lazio I think on the back of it. Zenden was another who we courted but then Barca came in and that was that iirc

Sick Boy · May 6, 2017

albatross said:
I remember when we had Chris Marsden on loan . Rave Reviews from the press especially down at Spurs, always seemed to have time on the ball , pulling all the strings in the team.......and then they let him collect his boots on the last day of his loan period and then go and sign for wolves..... think we got Sandy Robertson (from Gers) to replace him. Cursed Phil Neale for weeks.....and weeks....

I was only about 10 or 11 when he was on loan but still remember how good he was, especially in that Spurs game. My dad's a Spurs fan and still goes on about him.

Didn't he have a few 'personal problems'?

CJ_covblaze · May 6, 2017

Skyblueweeman said:
Wasn't one Nacho Novo as well?

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That's on the twitter thread and was odd to say the least. His agent was on Sky Sports News saying it was complete. Both clubs released statements saying it'd happened. We then pulled out as we heard McKenzie and Kyle were both available for a lot more money!

COVKIDSNEVERQUIT · May 6, 2017

CJ_covblaze said:
Feel free to add any other bits and pieces

Are " Bits and pieces " A song by The Dave Clarke Five back in the 60's .
Fond memories of standing on the Spon Kop stamping my feet to the beat to keep my feet warm . :emoji_hugging:

vow · May 6, 2017

Terry Gibson's perm said:
Neil Lennon was another who nearly signed, but nothing beats Robert Jarni

I believe Robbie Savage nearly came to us around the same time, as I believe both were at Crewe(?)

M&B Stand · May 6, 2017

We nearly took Marc Albrighton on loan from villa, but he refused when we went to Northampton, he went to Wigan instead.

Terry Gibson's perm · May 6, 2017

vow said:
I believe Robbie Savage nearly came to us around the same time, as I believe both were at Crewe(?)

Quite possible as they were both at Crewe, they have produced a lot of good players

ovduk78 · May 6, 2017

Terry Gibson's perm said:
Quite possible as they were both at Crewe, they have produced a lot of good players

I'm sure I read somewhere that Sillett went to watch David Platt when he was at Crewe and wasn't convinced and bought Peter Billing instead

AJB1983 · May 7, 2017

Micky Adams very nearly signed Darren Moore one transfer deadline day. He was at the Ricoh but obviously for whatever reason it didn't happen.

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