On this day in 1999 (1 Viewer)

skybluebeduff · Aug 18, 2016

We signed Robbie Keane:

Who had the privilege like me to witness his debut against Derby?

Monners · Aug 18, 2016

Me - he had class from day one

coop · Aug 18, 2016

Yes good times where did his transfer money disappear to.

Monners · Aug 18, 2016

coop said:
Yes good times where did his transfer money disappear to.

Ask Inter Milan, they were behind the whole deal

Winny the Bish · Aug 18, 2016

His debut was my first ever City game. It's all been downhill since... Thanks Dad.

skybluebeduff · Aug 18, 2016

coop said:
Yes good times where did his transfer money disappear to.

Why do you think Bryan was always smiling?

Tonylinc · Aug 18, 2016

That picture simply reminds me how I miss HR

albatross · Aug 18, 2016

i was there, he bossed the game that day , telling much more experienced players exactly where to play the ball

Marty · Aug 18, 2016

I was there, he was a class act from day one.

When we signed him didn't Alex Ferguson say it was a waste of money and he wouldn't have paid £100,000 for him?

christonabike · Aug 18, 2016

I was there with my old Dad he was a steward in those days I was in the family stand great days.
Still going with my old dad he is 84 now lost 4 stone due to cancer and has had his stomach more or less removed. He still says why can't we have the days of Ronnie Keane like the old days at HR?
Sorry Dad we are where we are but let's hope hey.
I've still got you you old git and it's a sad day when I come up here on my own.
PUSB

Kingokings204 · Aug 18, 2016

skybluebeduff said:
We signed Robbie Keane:

Who had the privilege like me to witness his debut against Derby?

I was there, I was 11 in the west terrace. Great memories that day.

singers_pore · Aug 18, 2016

He's still class. He's the best player in the LA Galaxy team (closely followed by Ashley Cole). He makes Steven Gerrard look like a pub footballer.

Gaz71 · Aug 18, 2016

Took my daughter to her first game, she was 5 and been a fan ever since.

Gaz71 · Aug 18, 2016

Monners said:
Ask Inter Milan, they were behind the whole deal

Why didn't they buy him from Wolves at half the price ?

italiahorse · Aug 18, 2016

I was there.
Great striker but his sale started the rot.

pw362 · Aug 18, 2016

italiahorse said:
I was there.
Great striker but his sale started the rot.

We bought Bellamy☺

no_loyalty · Aug 18, 2016

Funnily enough I was reading the match day program for this game last night, a quote about Keane signing from Chairman's chat page made me laugh

"He has a great future ahead of him and has already expressed his desire to play in the magnificent Arena we are creating in the city"

christonabike · Aug 18, 2016

We never owned him tho did we? GR and MM bought him and we payed his wages and all monies like £5M profit went to the board members If I remember rightly. Just a regular occurance in the good old days.

eastwoodsdustman · Aug 18, 2016

I was there too. I can remember someone coming into the office where I worked and told us that he'd signed. Couldn't really believe that we'd paid £6 mill for a player at the time. Now I know we never really paid it did we.

Terry Gibson's perm · Aug 19, 2016

I was there, exciting times when I used to read the Telegraph and we were signing players who should never have been coming here like Hadji,Keane and Jarni.

shmmeee · Aug 19, 2016

Quality debut. It was like we'd picked Barcelona in FIFA and he was Messi, just a class above everyone on the pitch.

Deal was dodgy as hell obviously, but on some level I don't care, we got a very special player for a season. Which is more than we got from some of Richardson's other dodgy deals (Jarni).

shmmeee · Aug 19, 2016

Terry Gibson's perm said:
I was there, exciting times when I used to read the Telegraph and we were signing players who should never have been coming here like Hadji,Keane and Jarni.

Remember some of the names linked as well? Gazza (well past his best), Van Nistlerooy, Nedved. Was a quality time to be a Cov fan, even if it was all built on sand.

Terry Gibson's perm · Aug 19, 2016

shmmeee said:
Remember some of the names linked as well? Gazza (well past his best), Van Nistlerooy, Nedved. Was a quality time to be a Cov fan, even if it was all built on sand.

I think Pirlo was as well.

Hobo · Aug 19, 2016

I remember arriving back at Birmingham Airport to the news we had signed him. What a joy!

Of course me and the wife saw his debut....fantastic display. Always rated him as a footballer and felt Liverpool gave up on him too soon.

Joy Division · Aug 19, 2016

shmmeee said:
Remember some of the names linked as well? Gazza (well past his best), Van Nistlerooy, Nedved. Was a quality time to be a Cov fan, even if it was all built on sand.

We tried to sign a young Thierry Henry too.

fernandopartridge · Aug 19, 2016

skybluebeduff said:
We signed Robbie Keane:

Who had the privilege like me to witness his debut against Derby?

Yes, he was a very exciting signing, unbelievable really that we'd beaten Villa (who had taken our talisman less than a year previously) to his signature.

Calista · Aug 19, 2016

I didn’t know too much about Robbie at the time we signed him, except that opinion was divided on him, and going along to the game was hoping we hadn’t blown £6 million on a duff player.

Within the first couple of minutes it was obvious he was pure class, and his debut goes down as one of the most memorable individual performances I’ve ever seen in a City shirt. With such great players in the team and the new stadium in prospect, it seemed like the sky was the limit. But as we all know, within about 2 years it had all gone terribly wrong.

CJ_covblaze · Aug 19, 2016

no_loyalty said:
Funnily enough I was reading the match day program for this game last night, a quote about Keane signing from Chairman's chat page made me laugh

"He has a great future ahead of him and has already expressed his desire to play in the magnificent Arena we are creating in the city"

I still believe now that if Arena 2000 had been built when it should've been we wouldn't have lost him and several others. His partnership with Roussel was superb. Still don't know how he managed to put away his goals against Villa, Derby and Arsenal now.

antjb · Aug 19, 2016

in case anyone wants to relive the debut

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antjb · Aug 19, 2016

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Wheelfass · Aug 19, 2016

At the back of the stand at half time I got into conversation with a couple who told me in a broad Black Country accent that they were Wolves fans (complete with Wolves scarves under their jackets) and that they had come see Robbie Keane on his debut. I told them that it might not be a good idea to tell anyone else who they supported and to keep their scarves tooked away and out of site.

Terry Gibson's perm · Aug 19, 2016

CJ_covblaze said:
I still believe now that if Arena 2000 had been built when it should've been we wouldn't have lost him and several others. His partnership with Roussel was superb. Still don't know how he managed to put away his goals against Villa, Derby and Arsenal now.

I still believe that if we hadn't been relegated the year we were we would still be in the top league now but would probably be about 3 billion in debt

eastwoodsdustman · Aug 19, 2016

antjb said:
in case anyone wants to relive the debut

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Just watched it back and got me thinking about where we are now. We are in our position now as a result of what we were doing back then. Given the choice again would anyone want us to have spent so much money knowing we'd be where we are now?

Terry Gibson's perm · Aug 19, 2016

eastwoodsdustman said:
Just watched it back and got me thinking about where we are now. We are in our position now as a result of what we were doing back then. Given the choice again would anyone want us to have spent so much money knowing we'd be where we are now?

Yes I think I would.

Looking at those players and the way they played fast flowing passing football sends a shiver down my spine, Keane was the best player I have seen for us at going round the goalkeeper and bellend was the worst.

It wasn't just the signing of the players that ruined us there was lots of money being wasted elsewhere.

fernandopartridge · Aug 19, 2016

CJ_covblaze said:
I still believe now that if Arena 2000 had been built when it should've been we wouldn't have lost him and several others. His partnership with Roussel was superb. Still don't know how he managed to put away his goals against Villa, Derby and Arsenal now.

I have to politely disagree. We couldn't afford them and we couldn't afford to build the new stadium. We were racking of debt back then. Then again, Bryan Richardson claims that he was the broker of the deal to sell the land to Tesco, so maybe that money would have come the club's way in the end....who knows. Does Simon's book focus on any of the dealings at this time?

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