Players we nearly had (3 Viewers)
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WillieStanley
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van Nistelrooy? I don't remember that!
I remember being linked with Keown before relegation... I think..?
I remember being linked with Keown before relegation... I think..?
TheRoyalScam
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Van Nistelrooy was when Big Ron was manager.
Chris Waddle
Steve Bull
Alexei Lalas
Does Robert Jarni count?!
Chris Waddle
Steve Bull
Alexei Lalas
Does Robert Jarni count?!
ICHAN
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Hi royalscam thought it was strachen might be wrong don't know but I remeber him being offered to us.
Don't know if you can have jarni because we did sign him in a strange way.
Forgot about Lalas, we would have all had fake goatty beards, thats when we got cobi jones
Don't know if you can have jarni because we did sign him in a strange way.
Forgot about Lalas, we would have all had fake goatty beards, thats when we got cobi jones
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TheRoyalScam
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Could have been Strachan - not sure myself!
Robert Jarni................now if we'd really signed him!
Robert Jarni................now if we'd really signed him!
Colonel Mustard
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Neil Lennon was on the brink of signing before O'Neill poached him at the last minute.
Think Richard Rufus and Lee Bowyer were close in a double deal.
Also seem to remember Eric Black being in on Kevin Doyle, but there was no cash.
Plus some Scandinavian goalscorer called Rune Lange, who turned us down while we were in the Prem. Ouch.
Think Richard Rufus and Lee Bowyer were close in a double deal.
Also seem to remember Eric Black being in on Kevin Doyle, but there was no cash.
Plus some Scandinavian goalscorer called Rune Lange, who turned us down while we were in the Prem. Ouch.
WestEndAgro
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Andy Carrol and Jordan Henderson
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TheRoyalScam
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Not forgetting Jack Cork.
skybluejelly
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trevor francis ,according to the history of coventry city we had a late bid for him turned down and he went to forest
WillieStanley
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Wow! I didn't realise that! Thanks guys!
Back on to Cork, I didn't actually rate him that highly! I'd sign him in an instant now but back then, I wasn't gutted when he went back. Henderson on the other hand...
Back on to Cork, I didn't actually rate him that highly! I'd sign him in an instant now but back then, I wasn't gutted when he went back. Henderson on the other hand...
WillieStanley
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:facepalm:I'm sure I remember something about Eidur Gudjohnsson but it may have been in my mind!
And how could we forget John Parkin...
And how could we forget John Parkin...
SkyBlueMania
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That's quite a list of players career's that could have been destroyed by the sky blue curse!
kapowaz
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This sounds like BS. This would have been in 1994 whilst he was playing for the Monaco first-team under Arsene Wenger, and Phil Neal was CCFC manager. I find this completely implausible given how few overseas players we had back then.
TheHellion
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I'm sure the telegraph printed we were once linked with Ravanelli.
stupot07
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Perhaps is was when he was at Juve then before he went to arsenal.....tbh I can only remember hearing someone talking on cwr a few years ago talking about the players we nearly signed, so I'm probably completely wrong.
It's true, it was around 1995/6 in his early Monaco time, when he was a winger. He wasn't a regular in the team at the time.
kapowaz
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Juventus paid £10.5m for him and sold him for £11m to Arsenal 8 months later. This was between January and August 1999, so you could theoretically say that we might have wanted to buy him instead of Robbie Keane (who we bought a few weeks later), but £11m was surely not possible for CCFC.
He was voted French Footballer of the Year in 1996, so that doesn't hold up at all.
And Hadji was voted African player of the year in 1998 - what's your point?
ICHAN
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Was that when he went to middlesbrough?