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.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Look at some of these who we could genuinely have been in for in the last decade.

In 2015 he was on loan at non-league Weston-super-Mare from Exeter. Ollie Watkins
In 2015 he was an academy player at Hull with almost no profile nationally. By the mid-2020s he was West Ham's main man: Jarrod Bowen
in 2015. He bounced around on loans before exploding at Peterborough and Brentford: Ivan Toney

This is just three, who else could we have had and missed out on? Why don't we go this route in future?

Another going nowhere thread, won’t change a thing but gets everyone thinking in the past…

 

[Lord Eddard Muir]

Saw that Seol-Young Woo - that Korean RB that we supposedly got offered but decided on Ben Godfrey instead - started their draw against Holland the other day

Oops, getting my WC matches mixed up there. I meant of course their win over the Czechs. He definitely played though

 

[wf9-Danny]

Another going nowhere thread, won’t change a thing but gets everyone thinking in the past…

Well actually look to the past and then see what we can do in the future - are there any players out there now we can pick up that will go on to be very good players in the top flight?

 

[s20Blade]

Harry Kane
Christiano Ronaldo
Brazil Ronaldo
Rivaldo
Riberto Carlos
Cafu
Maldini
Henry
Alan Shearer
Barry Messi
Gareth Bale
Steve mcmanananananan
Gary Mcsheffrey
Sam morsy
Jason koumas
Zinedene Zidane
Gianfranco Cola
Jaap Stam
John cashew
Fernando torress
Buffon
Lee martin

 

[Upton_Blade]

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

Baring in mind CW had already managed him and DIDN'T go back in for him when he was very gettable you have to wonder why??

 

[dellasthunderbolt]

Eze from QPR when we annoyingly got Luke Freeman instead!

 

[dellasthunderbolt]

Also Ivan Toney as he already had the link with Wilder form being at Northampton

 

[TJB.]

I always hoped we'd see Kevin Phillips play for us at some point.

 

[DifferentClass]

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.

Never mind him, what about that young Argie lad we were linked wi around same time as Sabella, Diego summat?