Players we nearly had (2 Viewers)

ICHAN · Dec 5, 2011

A bit of fun and a break from the norm.
Players we have been linked with a carry on from the zenden thread.
Van nistelrooy.
Keegan
Zenden
Van bronckhorst. nlhwc
Riise.nlhwc
Trezeguet. nlhwc
nlhwc mentioned by so credit to him for those

WillieStanley · Dec 5, 2011

van Nistelrooy? I don't remember that!

I remember being linked with Keown before relegation... I think..?

TheRoyalScam · Dec 5, 2011

Van Nistelrooy was when Big Ron was manager.

Chris Waddle
Steve Bull
Alexei Lalas

Does Robert Jarni count?!

ICHAN · Dec 5, 2011

Think it was in the strachen manager I am sure he was offered to us by heerenveen before he went to psv but we said he would not be good enough something along those lines

ICHAN · Dec 5, 2011

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

TheRoyalScam · Dec 5, 2011

Could have been Strachan - not sure myself!

Robert Jarni................now if we'd really signed him!

ICHAN · Dec 5, 2011

HaHa what a conspiracy that was, imagine if that happened now :slap:.
As you say I am not sure on which one it was big ron or strachen but I know we were offered him, glad we never as he proved not to be good enough for us :facepalm:

Colonel Mustard · Dec 5, 2011

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.

WestEndAgro · Dec 5, 2011

Andy Carrol and Jordan Henderson

TheRoyalScam · Dec 6, 2011

Not forgetting Jack Cork.

ashbyjan · Dec 6, 2011

Strachan had chance to sign van nistelroy for 3m but decided to sign huckerby instead.

gouldberg · Dec 6, 2011

Nacho Novo! Now that was a strange day.

skybluejelly · Dec 6, 2011

trevor francis ,according to the history of coventry city we had a late bid for him turned down and he went to forest

WillieStanley · Dec 6, 2011

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...

stupot07 · Dec 6, 2011

I'm sure we nearly signed Henry when he was 17/18.

TheBoss · Dec 6, 2011

Freddy Ljungberg
Chris Coleman
Joachim Bjorklund
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
Michel Platini
Kevin Keegan
Chris Waddle

WillieStanley · Dec 6, 2011

: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...

Knowledge · Dec 6, 2011

Erik Bakke
Thierry Henry (ouch!)
Jorg Albertz
Egil Ostenstad
Gaizka Mendieta

ICHAN · Dec 6, 2011

Keep them coming some serious class amoungst these names, what the f was going on when we were being offered some of these players:facepalm:

Otis · Dec 6, 2011

This thread is like saying "Women I nearly had."

ICHAN · Dec 6, 2011

Thats next otis just for you

Perryccfc · Dec 6, 2011

Double deal for McCann and Albert from rangers.

SkyBlueMania · Dec 6, 2011

That's quite a list of players career's that could have been destroyed by the sky blue curse!

skablue · Dec 6, 2011

Brian Clough agreed to manage City back in April 1972. He went as far as resigning from Derby but the Derby chairman gave into Clough's demands and he stayed on at Derby for another 18 months.

kapowaz · Dec 6, 2011

stupot07 said:
I'm sure we nearly signed Henry when he was 17/18.

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 · Dec 6, 2011

I'm sure the telegraph printed we were once linked with Ravanelli.

stupot07 · Dec 6, 2011

kapowaz said:
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.

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.

Knowledge · Dec 6, 2011

stupot07 said:
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 · Dec 6, 2011

stupot07 said:
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.

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.

Knowledge said:
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.

He was voted French Footballer of the Year in 1996, so that doesn't hold up at all.

wingy · Dec 6, 2011

What year did we bring Dion in ?

wingy · Dec 6, 2011

STevie Highway

procdoc · Dec 6, 2011

Just think how many careers could've been ruined if they had decided coventry was for them

Knowledge · Dec 6, 2011

kapowaz said:
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 · Dec 6, 2011

TheHellion said:
I'm sure the telegraph printed we were once linked with Ravanelli.

Was that when he went to middlesbrough?

curlyc_ · Dec 6, 2011

adam le fondre
jon jo shelvey
teddy sheringham
chris marsden
sandy robertson
the african pele
that guy from india
jose pedermo
chris whyte
etc

Players we nearly had (2 Viewers)

Well-Known Member

New Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

New Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

New Member

Well-Known Member

New Member

Well-Known Member

New Member

New Member

New Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

New Member

New Member

Well-Known Member

New Member

Well-Known Member

New Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

New Member

Well-Known Member

New Member

Users who are viewing this thread

Privacy & Transparency

Privacy & Transparency