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The ones who got away (9 Viewers)
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Sick Boy
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Never knew that!
ProfessorbyGrace
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Is he just randomly in a Cov shirt? As I can’t find anything on him being in our youth set up.
alexccfc99
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I believe he either only had a trial or was poached from us at a very early age!Is he just randomly in a Cov shirt? As I can’t find anything on him being in our youth set up.
SlowerThanPlatt
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He mentions briefly in his book, was one of the best England schools players and went on trial with every Prem club, they all wanted to sign him but he chose West Ham
oscillatewildly
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Ally McCoist, Paul Gascoigne and Les Ferdinand (amongst others) all wore a City shirt for David Busst's testimonial game in May 1997 but somehow they all slipped away into the night at the end of the match.
I take it recruitment had a night off that evening?
I take it recruitment had a night off that evening?
ProfessorbyGrace
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That was a fairly decent game of football, if my memory serves correctly: 2-2 (can’t remember the scorers except the Busst penalty), and Oggy came on as an outfield sub.
Ferdinand and Gascoigne were different class, even in a testimonial game.
Anyone mentioned Jose Perdomo?
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ProfessorbyGrace
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This thread has turned out rather well. 
JulianDarbyFTW
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To be honest it was so late in the window, I had no idea of it and when it did come about I knew it was two days left and nothing was going to get done – and even if it did I didn’t really want to leave.
“As soon as I found out I rung my agent and told him I didn’t really want to go, I wasn’t interested in leaving. I wanted to stay and had my head on staying whenever we finished the game against Swansea last season. That’s how it is in football, some things come right at the end [of the window], but for me it was a no-brainer to stay.”
'Wasn't interested' - Player wanted by Coventry City in the summer discusses how he snubbed late interest
Coventry City showed an interest in West Brom playmaker John Swift towards the end of the summer transfer window.
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Sick Boy
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It was used as leverage, I don’t think there was any real intent from his side.
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We'd have got the Brighton or Leeds version anyway
Adge
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Only trouble was we didn’t have any pots and pans to put in the bin!
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We also missed out on Malcolm Allison as manager, which is probably a lucky escape!
fernandopartridge
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I think it's the book staying up that said Atkinson fucked it up by asking Lennon if he could head a ball at the medical, Lennon felt like he wasn't being taken seriously. Such a shame as he'd have been a far more effective signing than McAllister.
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Frostie
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Sky_Blue_Daz
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I think another factor was that Atkinson wanted to play him as a centre half
ProfessorbyGrace
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Ysrael Zuniga - I’d have liked to have seen us hold onto him, to be honest. He was a natural finisher. Was just looking at his career stats: 259 goals in 556 games.
His record, pre-Cov, was incredible. Even though it was obviously a poor league he was playing in.
His record, pre-Cov, was incredible. Even though it was obviously a poor league he was playing in.
blunted
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My brother knew quite a few people in the club back in the day. Despite the claims from Robins and Clough in public, the story my brother heard is that Robins got cold feet as Clough wanted complete control of the club. By that, I understand Clough wanted more control than Robins was prepared to allow. Coventry not Clough pulled out of the deal. Clough then used the situation to bump up his salary with Derby. Would it have been his achievements at Forest or Leeds? Probably the former.
blunted
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Yes a transformative player for us. The missing link in midfield. How did we manage to lose such an important player?
He liked the old Colombian marching powder apparently
shmmeee
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Wish a few of our current midfield did
SkyblueDad
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We lost him to Wolves who at the time were a division lower and skint, same with Neil Lennon who plumped for Leicester who were also a league lower, can only happen at Coventry.
SkyblueDad
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Who remembers us having Ted MacDougal and his strike partner Phil Boyer on loan for a testimonial friendly can’t remember who for but these two were hot property both scoring goals galore and at the time playing for Bournemouth think in division three rumours galore they were coming here didn’t happen.
Grendel
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He was allegedly selling cocaine while here. His behaviour at Billy Wrights funeral suggests this may have been accurate.
Terry_dactyl
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I think I remember the back page of the Telegraph reporting that we were about to announce a triple swoop for Tim Flowers, Ian Crook, and Franz Carr.
ProfessorbyGrace
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I vaguely remember this, especially Ian Crook, who I think turned us down?
Very decent player in that Norwich team that made it into Europe.
SkyblueDad
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I think it was Norwich who wouldn’t do business with us, John Sillett went public on wanting him on tv and Norwich got the hump about it, shame Crook was a decent player at the time.