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Drexl

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Beckham
Souness
Roy Keane

All of those 3 trialled with us

More modern times?

Oscar
Demba Ba
Remy
 

Sp3akerboxxx

Adoption: Nabil Bentaleb
Apr 4, 2006
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Suarez was the worst that we actually came close too.

Arry with his "the scouts told me he was just like vdv".

Makes me wonder if Arry spent a single fucking second watching the world cup that year.
 

southlondonyiddo

My eyes have seen some of the glory..
Nov 8, 2004
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Stuart Downing

Probably could have got him for 10m a few years ago. What a bargain, he's absolutely ripping it up now!!
 

JUSTINSIGNAL

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Jul 10, 2008
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Ronaldo(The goofy fat one). We really should have snapped him up in 1994 before he signed for PSV. What the hell was Mr. Sugar thinking.
 

Blockbuster

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Jun 28, 2007
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Reading Harry Redknapps book he mentioned we missed out on Slaven Bilić who at the time had a release of £3.5m but contract was worded badly so he couldn't leave unless West Ham wanted to sell...year later he went to Everton.

would have been great for us! also Eyal Berkovic!
 

YidNick

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Andy fucking Carroll. Why an earth we let him go to Liverpool I'll never know.
 

Dharmabum

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Aug 16, 2003
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Andy fucking Carroll. Why an earth we let him go to Liverpool I'll never know.

Ask Harry, it was his preferred choice over Suarez and Cavani even though both of them together would have cost the same as Carroll...
 
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Misfit

President of The Niles Crane Fanclub
May 7, 2006
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Not sure how apocryphal the story was/is but Bergkamp would have been like the terterlee awesome perfect signing for us in '93/'94 after his miserable stint at Inter.
 

dagraham

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Not sure how apocryphal the story was/is but Bergkamp would have been like the terterlee awesome perfect signing for us in '93/'94 after his miserable stint at Inter.

Yep. Spurs fan too. Had Hoddle posters on his bedroom wall as a kid. :(
 

Misfit

President of The Niles Crane Fanclub
May 7, 2006
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Yep. Spurs fan too. Had Hoddle posters on his bedroom wall as a kid. :(
He was like Teddy on roids. Would have been great. Not so sure it would have ended all that well with Gerry "I can't stop staring at my own feet when talking" Francis at the helm but it would have been so much fun.
 

TheChosenOne

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Dec 13, 2005
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Is this a warm up thread for the forthcoming trransfer window and it's resulting shenanigans ?

Slavver.
 

SugarRay

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Michu. I remember seeing him a few times before he moved to Swansea. I thought they had made a good purchase at the time.

Then Sherwood came out and said he knew about him, he was recommended to him and we could have gone for him but we had other irons in the fire. Those two irons turned out to be Dempsey and Sig ( for £14m as opposed to the £2m Michu cost )

Within two months of that season it was obvious to everyone that our scouts had dropped a proper clanger! Sherwood basically admitting he chose Sig and or Dempsey over Michu should mean he lost his job and never found work in the game again!
 
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