Am I correct in thinking we tried to sign Steve Bull and Ally McCoist in the 90s? Was chatting to the old man about it while England were shit against Scotland the other night. Might have just been pissed though.
Don’t think it was 3mill, I thought it was 1m…
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it was 1.5m, and as it turns out he wanted to go to Villa. Remember seeing him in Gynn’s testimonial and the hunger to score goals even in a game like that was obvious- I think he’d have made it in the top division with ease.
Doug Ellis promised me a move to Aston Villa says Wolves legend Steve Bull
WOLVES legend Steve Bull has revealed how Doug Ellis left him in limbo over a possible Villa move.
I don’t think it would have worked- after he turned us down he started getting injured regularly, he only played a couple more seasons after that.
in his prime in today’s market he’d be a £30m player for sure.
he played a couple of games for Hereford right at the end but that was it.
I saw Bull playing for wolves vs Pompey. 0-0-0 at halftime. 5-0 Wolves full time. I think he scored 3.
Im sure he got minutes at Italia ‘90.
Im sure he got minutes at Italia ‘90.
Yeah he did play at Italian 90. He scored for England at Hampden Park 88 or 89 as well when Wolves were third or second division.
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.
don’t forget the mighty Ricky Otto
Yeah, that summer we were in for Neil Lennon too who ended up at Leicester.
IIRC there was a poster on GMK who was adamant we were getting Walcott on loan just after he had been at the World Cup
Was it in the Staying Up book or elsewhere that the reason he didn't sign was that Atkinson said "Can you head the ball?" and Lennon took offence as he didn't think Atkinson had looked at him properly. Great great shame as he'd have been a far better signing than McAllister.
Don't ever recall a 'Super Ally' link but I know we were close to signing Craig Burley from Chelsea around 1996. So close in fact that the BBC text pages listing the Scotland squad for euro '96 had his club side (in brackets) as Coventry.
I've also got an old newspaper clipping from around 1971 with the news that Coventry City were just crossing 't's' and dotting 'i's over the signing of Brian Kidd.
I've also got an old newspaper clipping from around 1971 with the news that Coventry City were just crossing 't's' and dotting 'i's over the signing of Brian Kidd.
I think he assisted his goal at Hampden himself by winning the header from a clearance before latching on to it to score?
Didn’t we choose Moldovan over someone who went on to be amazing? I’ve got Van Nistelrooy in my head when he was still at Herenveen, might just be me blurring reality v my memory of playing on championship manager back in the day mind!
Brian Clough wanted to sign Trevor Francis and was told by Brum Forest would have to pay a record fee for him. He was also told one other club would pay the money also and it was Coventry City. Francis talked first with Cloughie who got him to sign and the rest is history so to speak. Clough was rumoured to have said " bloody Coventry City ! "
Decent article from the Telegraph back from 2001 with Ray Clarke with some info from his days as European scout...
www.coventrytelegraph.net
Clarke's Ruud past
COVENTRY City tried to buy Man United striker Ruud Van Nistelrooy in 1997, Sky Blue coach Ray Clarke has revealed....
The Savage story was never true apparently, but Lennon had agreed a move to us only the back out the next morning.
Trezequet was apparently true as was the story that Strachan turned down a Dutch striker called Ruud van Nistelrooy becaause he thought £3m too steep a price for an unproven foreigner.
Trezequet was apparently true as was the story that Strachan turned down a Dutch striker called Ruud van Nistelrooy becaause he thought £3m too steep a price for an unproven foreigner.
I seem to remember us being linked with Jorg Albertz and maybe Neil McCann from Rangers? Also Gary Naysmith who ended up at Everton and im sure some random norwegian guy called Lund at some point. God knows why i remember this.
Lund was linked after Dublin was sold. Him and another scandi, sure the name began with H. Hagh maybe?
Neil mccann around the same time but I think it was from Hearts rather than Rangers.
Was there a Gary Wales or something like that from Hearts too? I remember Lund being one of a number of links with scandi players but dont recall names. I just remember that as a kid i used to love reading the back pages of the telegraph for this stuff.
Think i just remembered another one....Nuno Gomes!
Tell a lie, had a look and it was Rune Lange linked. He had an excellent scoring record. It even states his nearly signed for us on his wiki.
Rune Lange - Wikipedia
Lund was pictured on the back of the Telegraph holding the shirt. Then failed a medical with a knee injury. Not long after he went to Wimbledon and his knee went and pretty much ended his career.
McCann was after we sold Keane so probably had more money to fritter away than ever. I think we were preparing to pay about £4.5m for him and Rangers kept upping the price each time we thought we had a deal.
