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Another one I think we were close to signing was Lee Bowyer. It was just before we signed McAllister, but then Leeds came in and pipped us.

Agreed, but Bundesliga would be even more positive, as would playing for a top end Championship club rather than a middling one.

Exactly, any points deduction, meaning relegation will almost certainly result in Derby heading to the Courts, which could be really problematic for the start of the upcoming season. The simplest solution for the EFL would be for any points deduction to apply next season, which I therefore think...

I would be amazed if the EFL relegated Derby.

It would be brilliant for us too and I would love it to be true, but if you take off the Sky Blue Specs for a second, you should ask yourself why he or Chelsea would prefer us over teams more likely to be fighting for promotion, or indeed say a team in the Bundesliga. The only reason would be if...

Chelsea might be more tempted to keep him with them in view of his Euro performance. If not, and presuming Chelsea don't want to let him play for another PL team I would be amazed if we were chosen over the likes of say West Brom or Fulham. In regards to alerting new interested parties, maybe...

For those starting to get their knickers in a twist about this, I hate to make it worse for you, but in the last tradional pre season to compare to in League 1 we didn't sign O'Hare, Walsh & Godden until after the season had already started. Sometimes circumstances just mean you have to play a...

If its from 96 its gonna be Prem top heavy. I'll go in no particular order Ndlovu, Whelan, Dublin, Huckerby, Nilsson, Froggatt, Boateng, Keane, Hadji & Wise.

Burns is a right sided wing back isn't he? While we have both Dabo and Da Costa at the club, and with the likes of Burroughs & Eccles who can also fill in there, I think we have more pressing needs elsewhere in the team - left wing back for one.

Before they took on the nickname 'Eagles', Palace were known as 'The Glaziers' so nothing to do with our Bill :)

Both Venkys & Bet365 are worth over a billion. They might decide to rein things in a little, but their losses are still a relative drop in the ocean in reality, unless they decide to pull the plug of course. That's possible at Blackburn I guess, but not Stoke where the owners are fans. Even at...

Didn't know about Flowers, but remember the other 2 being reported as close to signing. Around that time others that we were linked with as being close to signing were Dennis Wise and Ian Dawes, who I was desperate to sign and replace Downs, who I saw as our only real weakness at that time.

The 'great pro' type you regularly rip apart!! He certainly always gave 100% and for that reason I don't really want to slag him off, but he was extremely limited, a poor man's Mick Coop if you like. I know its only a drinking booth but it would be frankly embarrasing if he were to win any vote...

Only voted Curtis. Can't believe Shaw is in that list 😖

The trouble is that some of our overspending counterparts are not hamstrung the way we are in not having owners who are 'supporters' of the club, and whose primary interest in owning the club is not therefore success on the pitch. Other clubs with seemingly far worse finances than us have owners...

JCH coming back for a 3rd time :)

Never saw him play but I voted Reg Matthews. Born in Cov, first Cov player to pay for England, which he did while we were in Division 3. Honourable mentions to Jim Blyth and Bill Glazier who I both preferred to Oggy.

Treading carefully here, but I notice that the ex Huddersfield owner has allowed a restructuring of the repayment of monies owed to him, of loans made with 0% interest. I don't like this idea that our owners who are supposed to be acting in the interests of the club at the end of the day, are...

I mentioned before, but it doesn't seem to have dawned on people that MR (and most of the guys he wants to sign) are probably on holiday right now. I'm not surprised things are quiet.

Yes Zenden was mentioned in the papers at the time. Of the others I think Henry, Van Nistelrooy & Trezeguet were mentioned in the 'Staying Up' book, didn't ever know about Melchiot or Ljungberg. In the 90's papers also linked us to signing Nakata, Okocha and Lalas. This thread also reminds me...