The player your club NEARLY signed.
Bit of an odd thread but just a bit of fun. Whats the player your club were realistically linked with but didnt quite pull off that you would have loved to see?
For me as a Man Utd fan there should be many, we nearly got Gazza for example, and we were linked with everyone in the 90s but one realistic player that i really would have loved to have seen was Di Canio. We were heavily linked with a move for him when he was at West Ham and i think he would have ticked all the boxes to be awesome for us for a year or two.
Who is your clubs "nearly men"?
For me as a Man Utd fan there should be many, we nearly got Gazza for example, and we were linked with everyone in the 90s but one realistic player that i really would have loved to have seen was Di Canio. We were heavily linked with a move for him when he was at West Ham and i think he would have ticked all the boxes to be awesome for us for a year or two.
Who is your clubs "nearly men"?
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There were rumours that Roy Evans wanted to sign Zidane for £3m but the board wouldn't back him. Not sure how true that is though.
No we couldn't, certainly not Batistuta and i suspect not Salas. We werent paying these wages to get them at the time hence why it was nothing more than paper talk.
I mean players that were well within the clubs grasp but for one reason or another didnt happen.
I didnt mention Xavi i mentioned Batistuta and Salas. Yes, Xavi is exactly the type of thing i mean.
Lucas Neill was a nearly too but that was a bullet dodged thankfully.
I dunno, every club needs a nutter to get behind!
Its a fine line between an awesomely timed tackle and attempted murder....
After the summer of 86 Dundee United came within an inch of a deal for the Brazilian international Josimar. He was the guy that scored the spectacular long-range effort in the Mexico 86 World Cup.
It was too good to be true but he seemed to have signed, as with these things though, it WAS too good to be true and he ended up in Spain.
Probably just paper talk though. Also IIRC Harry Redknapp was very close to becoming our new manager once.
Wasn't this attibuted to Blackburn? I'm sure I've heard that when the funds were requested, Jack Walker replied, 'Why do we need Zidane? We've got Tim Sherwood'. Hilarious, if true.
For Manchester United, I'd say Ronaldhino. We were so close to signing him from PSG, until a last minute bid from Barcelona came in. That could have been spectacular, although I suspect that it may have meant that we wouldn't have signed Ronaldo. Silver linings, and all that, eh?
not sure if that's true, it could have just been made up from the fact that Zidane was a Liverpool fan and stated that he would have loved to have played for them.
We already had Craig Bellamy!
There was already too much bad blood between us and Neill for the supporters to get behind him.
I recall Roy saying the board wouldn't back him to buy Sheringham too.
Another story was we couldn't agree terms with Michael Laudrup.
Another was that Houllier ran the rule over C.Ronaldo and decided he "wasn't ready" for the Premiership. Luckily, United wasted their money on him instead so Ged was proved right on that one.......
Im only joking!
He was offered crazy money to go elsewhere wasnt he? West Ham was it? It was about £70k a week or something off the scale like that.
He claimed it wasn't about money though.
Claimed that Liverpool had never even spoken to him and Rafa didn't even approach him. Contrast that with Mascherano who said Rafa couldn't do enough.
Luckily, United seem to have learned their lesson, after that travesty. We now only spend big money on proven, world-beating wingers, such as Bebe.
Then again if reports are to be believed Rafa wanted t replace Alonso with Gareth Barry which is a crock of s**t.
Alex sabella an Argentinian midfielder whom played for sheffield united and Leeds in the 80s as both were with the same agent but nothing came of it
The fact we were middle of the old division 2 at the time
Is even more bizzare
Kevin keegan wanted to sign for Leeds in 1969
When he signed for Liverpool but he felt he wouldn't have got I'm the side that had just won the old div 1 title by a then record
67 points by losing just 2 games
We also nearly signed the top
Scorer at Italia 90 some chech international who name escapes
Me also palo Sousa from inter Milan
Nadal from Barcelona Andrs muller are two
Of the more recent famous names we nearly signed
We were linked with shearer when we were league champions
We had a European cup to tempt him
With but blackburn tempted him with cash
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We did alright without him, to be fair.