I've heard it but never seen anything that backs it up. I'm pretty sure it's just rumours.
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.
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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.
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.
It was in the Staying Up book by Rick Gekoski yes. Certainly was Trezeguet but wasn't the other player Ruud Van Nistelrooy?
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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!
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.
others include
Keegan - too small
Gerrard - we ended up with David thompson
Kevin Beattie - medical
Martin o neill
Trevor Francis - didnt go to £1m
Keegan - too small
Gerrard - we ended up with David thompson
Kevin Beattie - medical
Martin o neill
Trevor Francis - didnt go to £1m
Brian Clough as manager. Also Malcolm Alison although that was an escape seeing how badly he did away from Joe Mercer.
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....
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Never known one player transform a team like Marden did for us during that spell. Bloody Phil Neal.
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.
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.
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.
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
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'?
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!
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:
I believe Robbie Savage nearly came to us around the same time, as I believe both were at Crewe(?)
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