Which EPL icon do you wish we had signed?

[Sp3akerboxxx]

I wouldn't want a scummy **** like Roy Keane anywhere near a football club I support. I don't care if he scored double Ronaldo's and Messi's totals in a single season, I could never want a man like that to do well.

Would be Henry for me (from that era, not overall)

 

[danielneeds]

Zola, because his joyful brand of football should never have lit up Stamford Bridge.

 

[nav007_2000]

Shevchenko

 

[mpickard2087]

Ali Dia.

 

[Mr-T]

Much as I dislike him, would have to be Ronaldo.

 

[talkshowhost86]

Zola, because his joyful brand of football should never have lit up Stamford Bridge.

I was going to say Zola.

That sort of player is always great to watch.

Zola, Bergkamp, Cantona. All would have been fantastic.

 

[riggi]

Bergkamp. One of the best players I've ever seen play in person and although a Gooner he seems a thoroughly nice bloke.

That's because he's a Yiddo.

 

[Qualsonic]

Out of the recent "possibles", Suarez.
All time, Cantona or Faustino Asprilla.

 

[Disconosebleed]

Unfortunately I'm not convinced any of these players would have made a huge difference to us at the time they were at their peak, with the exception of Suarez.

Think about how utterly poop we were in 1999 - do you really think Henry would have turned us around? Would he have even been given the chance to if he'd suffered a poor first season like he did at Arsenal? In all probability I would say that rather than him changing our fortunes, we'd have changed his and he may never have gone on to achieve the success he did. The same could be said for Cantona, Bergkamp, Zola and most of the others mentioned in here - at their respective peaks, we were also-rans who wouldn't have been pushed to glory by one great player.

For slightly different reasons I don't think Hazard would have turned us into a top side either, even though at the time we were after him we were a good side. He really needed the micro-management of Mourinho to turn him into a bonafide superstar, and at Spurs he may well have become another Giovani, all talent and no backbone.

Suarez, on the other hand...he's the sort of player who would have made a difference at any point, let alone at the time we were after him, when we were close to challenging at the top of the table. You can argue the pros and cons of signing such a reprehensible character, but I think we'd have made the Champions League every year for however long we kept him.

 

[kd2000]

Gotta be scholes for me with cantona as a close second, mainly for kung fu

Not foreign (scholes) i know but ginger counts right???

 

[sunnydelight786]

2 spring to mind and both would have joined us if it was not for the chairman with a chip on his shoulder in the first case, and a manager not rating the second thinking he's the same as what we have/not a striker.

Bergkamp and Suarez......

 

[slartibartfast]

Zola, because his joyful brand of football should never have lit up Stamford Bridge.

Imagine him playing now.
He wouldn't get in a Maureen team in a hundred years.
Look what that prick has done to Hazard. He spends the whole game on the fkin floor. You just cannot go near him and win the ball without him hitting the deck. Right diving shit. Media haven't picked up on it yet but they will, about xmas I reckon.

Recent players I'd say Suarez and Sanchez.
For me, despite the crap in the media, Suarez was never ever a gamble. And Sanchez is very similar. I watched both players and its fkin obvious theyre both shit hot to anyone without their head up their arse. Liverpool should have ploughed every penny from Suarez sale into getting Sanchez as a replacement and I've absolutely no doubt they would have carried on pushing for the title especially while they still had CL football. Definitely would have got top 4. Instead that bought a load of shit and fkin Ballotelli lol. Hilarious if we hadn't wasted the Bale money. At least they've done it twice lol.

I rate Bojan as well. First game I saw him he stuck out like a sore thumb. He's quality. Yes he's had a few issues but at a whopping great 1.5m where's the gamble? Its a no brainer. Deals like that make me think its all network, back handers left right and centre.
Why buy him when you can get Paulinho for 16m and stick 3m of it in your back pocket. Besides, we don't use his agent

Oops, I'm ranting lol.

 

[Disconosebleed]

Hazard doesn't really dive does he? Seems to get the shit kicked out of him most games, there was a photo doing the rounds a while back showing the state of his socks after one game where teams had been kicking lumps out of him. I'm sure he's probably gone down easily a few times but he certainly isn't a name that immediately springs to mind when I think of divers.

 

[Shea]

Bergkamp. One of the best players I've ever seen play in person and although a Gooner he seems a thoroughly nice bloke.

He is the natural choice, the one that immediately sprang to mind to me - because of the key role he played in Arsenal's reemergence as a dominate force under Wenger

He was also a Spurs fan prior to signing for Arsenal - well mostly a Hoddle fan but still Spurs were a club I am sure he held affection for and would have loved to play for

While I respect others who say one player probably wouldn't have been enough to make a difference - and that is probably true because Bergkamp was but one cog in Wenger's machine and indeed Wenger was the most important cog - but I do think the Bergkamp signing came at quite a pivotal time

Ourselves and Arsenal were at something of a cross road, we'd had excellent success with Jurgen and had we signed Bergkamp we may have been able to build upon that instead of wasting more money on Fox and Armstrong and a string of useless managers which left us spinning round in circles while Arsenal went to the top

I don't think Bergkamp would have magically made us as good as Arsenal became because Francis was no Wenger and the tactical skills and his skills in the transfer market built their success but I do think history could have been a lot different had Sugar not refused to sign imported players at such a key time and we been afforded the chance to build on the short term (near) success we had when Jurgen played with us

 

[Mullers]

None.
No point in icons playing under shite managers like Gerry Francis and Ossie and with team mates like Kevin Scott and Jason Dozzell.

 

[Shea]

None.
No point in icons playing under shite managers like Gerry Francis and Ossie and with team mates like Kevin Scott and Jason Dozzell.

The real icon who'd have been the best appointment of the 90s was probably Wenger - had Sugar had the foresight of David Dein, or Hoddle actively suggested him to us

 

[h2005]

Roy Keane

 

[Mullers]

The real icon who'd have been the best appointment of the 90s was probably Wenger - had Sugar had the foresight of David Dein, or Hoddle actively suggested him to us

Even if he appointed Wenger, Sugar would have probably found a way to piss him off. The best appointment would have been David Dein.

 

[prawnsandwich]

We have had our share of fancy dans and skilful players but the one player who could have changed this loser mentality we have at the club would have been Roy Keane.

 

[rabbikeane]

We've signed good enough players, problem has been keeping them at the club long term.
Klinsmann one and a half season, should have been five full ones.
We definitely missed out when Sugar didn't want another Carlos Kickaball in Dennis Bergkamp though.