Players you wish we had signed.

[DifferentClass]

Morsy.

 

[jimmymuir]

Antonee Robinson in summer of 2020 when we'd just missed out on Europe. Newly promoted Fulham came in for him at the last minute and offered big wages.

 

[Iffy Onuora's Shiny Head]

I always rated Heidar Helguson at Watford in the early 2000s.

I also was excited when we signed Luke Beckett who had scored for fun for Stockport County

 

[71Blade]

1st game back in the Championship Brentford at home ... The Ginger Pirlo -- Ryan Woods thought he was a brilliant player wanted us to sign him ... never did ..

 

[Champagneblade]

Charles Green once said we were lining up the “African Alan Shearer”, Raphael Chuckwu.

No, me neither!

 

[Badger Blade]

Tijjani Reijnders who we missed the boat on courtesy of our accounts payable department

 

[DifferentClass]

Charles Green once said we were lining up the “African Alan Shearer”, Raphael Chuckwu.

No, me neither!

Worra name though.

 

[Danetheblade]

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[mattbianco1]

in 2015. He bounced around on loans before exploding at Peterborough and Brentford: Ivan Toney

He was already scoring well for his age under Wilder at Northampton. That's how he got his move to Newcastle.

 

[Back post bob]

Buying Matt Elliott from Oxford in the summer of 1990 to replace Stan, or Earl Barrett who was also still in the 2nd division with Oldham.

Also in mid 80s they were some gems in the bottom two divisions who went on to be top flight regulars. Robbie Earle and Mark Bright at Port Vale, Dean Saunders at Brighton, Cascarino at Gillingham.

I was at Oxford when Michel vonk got injured in the warm up he never played again.
Elliott was in the Oxford team he terrorised us and scored.
Howard Kendall should have signed him based on that game alone

 

[wf9-Danny]

Barry Bannan so we could have made him warm our bench rather than have him be Wednesday's best ever bald player

That wasn't my most thought out post, please don't hold it against me for too long!

 

[Hallamboy87]

Didn't we have the chance to sign Kevin Keegan at one point? I'm sure I've heard this somewhere but I maybe completely wrong.

 

[Jan Age]

Remember we were close to signing Hamilton Ricard at one point as well as Gazza

Was thinking the exact same thing

 

[Bayingblade]

Francis Lee.......Ken Furphy had agreed a deal for 70k but the board turned him down.

Ended up buying Chris Guthrie for c100k.

The rest,as they say, is history.

 

[Hillsboro Blade]

Pele, Cruyff, Gullitt, Messi and Seth Johnson.

 

[Sithblade]

I was at Oxford when Michel vonk got injured in the warm up he never played again.
Elliott was in the Oxford team he terrorised us and scored.
Howard Kendall should have signed him based on that game alone

Looking at his career, I've cocked up. We did lose 3-0 away at Oxford in Jan 1990 but he wasn't at the club then

 

[Keen Blade]

Maradona

Close thread

Yeh but we'd have sold him to the first club that sniffed our bum

 

[coaxingstar71]

I remember around 1985 Porterfield wanted to sign Ray Houghton, who was at Fulham at the time, for about £250k and the board turned him down. He also wanted to sign Peter Nicholas, the Palace midfielder. I think this was when he threw his toys out of the pram and we ended up with a Dad's Army that included Withe, Thompson and Mortimer.

Edit: Houghton subsequently signed for Oxford.

 

[tyneblade]

I remember Warnock congratulating himself on resisting Nicky Butt's wage demands during our season in the Prem. I wonder how much we might have benefitted from his experience in those last few games.