Bruno Ribeiro

[Kevin_Yahoo]

Hello chaps - please tell me what you remember about this little Portuguese fella from the 90s.

I'm writing another one of these https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/blast-past-no-16-jostein-105108078.html

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Kevin

 

[sitwell]

An absolutely awful player ,who is only remembered because he had a chantable name.

That is the censored version btw

 

[LoughboroBlade]

He was the first player that the Warnock-haters of the time used as a means of justifying why their views of why we needed rid of the manager were valid. The reality was that despite the chantable name, Bruuuuuuno was fairly average.

Ribeiro is one of an illustrious list of players that a small minority of fans seem to latch onto due to them sounding a bit exotic. Others include:

Emmanual Gabrieli
Jean Calve
Diego De Girolamo

 

[Gin&Juice]

Scored against West Brom, can't remember much more.

Illustrated the dramatic rise of Leeds in that brief period. They sacked him, Halle & Weatherall off and signed Dacourt, Mills & Ferdinand as replacements. I think they got 500k off us for him, probably to fund their goldfish

 

[PokerBlade]

I thought Ribeiro was a Bruce signing? Was one of those players who was definitely going to solve the midfield problem and be the missing piece of the puzzle for us but, like so many, was crap.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

I thought Ribeiro was a Bruce signing?

Nope. He was the £500,000 signing we made under Heath after we suddenly decided not to spend the £3,000,000 on Giorgi Kinkladze following the Morris deal.

 

[BrayfordsBushyBeard]

As stated above scored a great goal away at west brom and that was pretty much it ! As ever UTB

 

[raul]

He was the first player that the Warnock-haters of the time used as a means of justifying why their views of why we needed rid of the manager were valid. The reality was that despite the chantable name, Bruuuuuuno was fairly average.

Ribeiro is one of an illustrious list of players that a small minority of fans seem to latch onto due to them sounding a bit exotic. Others include:

Emmanual Gabrieli
Jean Calve
Diego De Girolamo

Maxime Chamot??

 

[Pierre's PC]

One for Bladesway

 

[JohnDenver]

He drove a small Audi. I know this because I saw him in the carpark after the Port Vale game.

 

[SheepdipBlade]

I remember him as one of the few players in living memory at BDTBL who could take a half decent corner.

 

[Russ]

So there you have it. Might be worth choosing someone else?!

 

[Grappler]

A particularly important player, if you are wanting to make a funny remark about his surname and liken it to "ribbed condoms"

 

[sitwell]

He drove a small Audi. I know this because I saw him in the carpark after the Port Vale game.

What did you shout to him ?

 

[Bath Blade]

I remember him as one of the few players in living memory at BDTBL who could take a half decent corner.

He's going to need to rephrase your comment about twenty times to fill out his article. Hope he's got a thesaurus to hand.

 

[JohnDenver]

What did you shout to him ?

Nothing, I was just there to gawk at the protest.

But everyone else chanted Bruno as though he was a favourite son of S2 (despite having done two fists of cock-all for us).

 

[sitwell]

Nothing, I was just there to gawk at the protest.

But everyone else chanted Bruno as though he was a favourite son of S2 (despite having done two fists of cock-all for us).

Is that a line from Dances with Wolves ?

 

[s10blade]

Benoît Croissant was my favourite. Bit flakey though.

 

[Bert]

Bruno was a useless fat git.

cf: Jose Baxter.

 

[Ben_1982]

Nope. He was the £500,000 signing we made under Heath after we suddenly decided not to spend the £3,000,000 on Giorgi Kinkladze following the Morris deal.

Kinkladze link was under Kendall not Heath

 

[Pierre's PC]

I remember he got better every game...he didn't play

 

[Silent Blade]

At training Warnock wanted our players to pass the ball in front of their teammates rather than straight to their feet. Ribeiro had a disagreement with him insisting that he always wants to receive passes straight to his feet. Then Ribeiro was on his way out of the club

 

[AlanWrightsShinyHead]

Kinkladze link was under Kendall not Heath

Heath was also linked to him. I remember seeing it on the back page of the star, and that couldn't have been during the Kendall era as I was too young to read at that point.

What more proof do you need?

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Kinkladze link was under Kendall not Heath

As unbelievable as it sounds, it was under Heath.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-blades-bold-bid-to-capture-kinkladze-1121316.html

Football: Blades' bold bid to capture Kinkladze

• Lindsay Harrison
• Wednesday 22 September 1999

SHEFFIELD UNITED have launched an ambitious bid to bring the former Manchester City midfielder Georgi Kinkladze back to England.

The Georgian international was a huge success in his spell at Maine Road before joining Ajax two seasons ago but he has failed to make an impact in the Netherlands and the Blades manager, Adrian Heath, has opened transfer talks.

"We have spoken to Ajax about the possibility of taking him on loan," Heath said. "It would be a very expensive deal but we are hoping that he would excite the crowd."

Kinkladze has also been linked with a move to Portsmouth, where the former City manager, Alan Ball, is in charge.

The Mirror's report takes a different angle.

Football: HEATH CAN BAG GEORGI PORGY FOR HIS BLADES; But first he must lose weight.
Link/Page Citation


GEORGI Kinkladze is fighting a battle of the bulge to win a career-saving move back to England.

Sheffield United are preparing a record-breaking pounds 2.5million deal for Ajax's Georgian genius - but not until the gut-busting Kinkladze sheds over two stone.

United boss Adrian Heath has already started negotiations with the Dutch giants in an ambitious move to sign the former Manchester City idol.

The First Division club are ready to make the 26-year-old the highest paid player in Bramall Lane history, by matching the pounds 20,000-a-week he earns with Ajax.

But the audacious move to pull Kinkladze's faltering career out of a nose-dive has hit a stumbling block - in the shape of his stomach.

Miniature midfielder Kinkladze, 5ft 7ins, has ballooned to over 13 stone over the last 16 months since his dream pounds 5m move from Maine Road to Amsterdam turned sour.

The angelic-faced Georgian international, whose need for speed and flash sports cars almost cost him his life, now has to be shoe-horned into his favourite Ferrari.

A source close to Kinkladze said: "He is having real problems with his weight. He is almost two-and-a-half stone heavier than he should be."

Kinkladze has become increasingly unhappy at Ajax, following their decision to replace Danish coach Morton Olsen with Jan Wouters.

In the last 12 months he has been selected just once, as a substitute, by the former Dutch international and has been left to rot in the reserves.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

Sounds about right for us signing some cunt 2.5 stone over weight and blowing all our transfer budget on him. Did we have the same 'transfer directors board' then?

Oh sorry no I forgot we had the best Director Of Football we've ever had Derek Dooley at the club .

 

[crucialkneeligaman]

Decent enough player, never really given a chance.

 

[boo radley]

Hold on a minute! Just clicked, that Numpty who phones up RS all the time, his name is Bruno.

 

[pommpey]

Who was the twat we sold to Leeds in exchange for a friendly which never happened?

pommpey

 

[The Crab]

Sounds about right for us signing some cunt 2.5 stone over weight and blowing all our transfer budget on him. Did we have the same 'transfer directors board' then?

Oh sorry no I forgot we had the best Director Of Football we've ever had Derek Dooley at the club .

Wasn't Mike McDonald here at the time? If so, sounds like something he might have railroaded through given his Man City connections rather than give Derek Dooley any input.

 

[sitwell]

When kinkladze signed for man city it was major news and I was employed by Howard culley to move all the paperwork around the country but had to agree to complete secrecy in case it was gazumped. I was dying to go to the papers and get a fee but he paid me decent money, good job s24su wasn't about