Players you wish we had signed.

[PeterNdlovu081]

His dad Mike put out some reyt choons.

He knew his way around a bell.

 

[Silent Blade]

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

Was Wilder keen to sign him for us?

 

[CPB]

Apparently we turned down soucek at West ham when we first got prompted

Think that was more of a target rather than turning down. We wouldn't have beaten West ham to his signature.

Those first 3 in the original post though. All 3 we were looking at and waited too long to be serious about signing them that we were no longer in good positions to sign them.

I think with Watkins though, had we got into Europe that season. Or Villa went down instead. (Ghost goal) We may have signed not only Watkins but Matty Cash.
Which may have meant we didn't sign Bogle and Lowe.

 

[The Crab]

His dad Mike put out some reyt choons.

Pitsmoor Pig has just launched a tribute album.

Tubular Bellends…

 

[Lord Eddard Muir]

Barry Messi

We had a messy Barry last season, didn't work out

 

[Borbokisfreekick]

The summer after we finished 9th in the prem we were heavily linked with all the below players:

Emmy Martinez
Ollie Watkins
Matty Cash
Antonee Robinson
Eze

Instead we ended up with

Ramsdale
Brewster
Bogle
Max Lowe
Ollie Burke

We got relegated and Villa went onto what they are now and Robinson excelling in the Premier League and World Cup, and Eze a premier league champion.

Obviously money talks and we couldn’t afford the wages, but just goes to show how close we could have been to really establishing ourselves and having some top end players to build a team around. We’ll always wonder what if!!?

 

[wf9-Danny]

The summer after we finished 9th in the prem we were heavily linked with all the below players:

Emmy Martinez
Ollie Watkins
Matty Cash
Antonee Robinson
Eze

Instead we ended up with

Ramsdale
Brewster
Bogle
Max Lowe
Ollie Burke

We got relegated and Villa went onto what they are now and Robinson excelling in the Premier League and World Cup, and Eze a premier league champion.

Obviously money talks and we couldn’t afford the wages, but just goes to show how close we could have been to really establishing ourselves and having some top end players to build a team around. We’ll always wonder what if!!?

Got to admit, I thought we had bought well but put those lists into perspective. Watking and Eze especially. Well actually all of them would have either upgraded us an awful lot or got us a lot on sell on fee's

The only one I genuinely wish we'd not signed is Brewster, for two reasons. He was never played to his strengths and he was well over priced.

 

[Zero dark thirty]

Good thread. These were interesting because it felt they were gettable and it wasn’t as if they were not a known quantity. I’d also add Eze when he was at QPR and we were in the PL and also Olise when he was at Reading both seemed players worth looking at.

Further back, Kevin Davies was a while at a Chesterfield just begging to be signed and had a great career at Bolton and Southampton.

Sabella..for another 50k you could have got Maradona.

 

[wf9-Danny]

Sabella..for another 50k you could have got Maradona.

That's often said, and it's before I really know much. I'm not sure it was really on the cards, everyone I speak to older then me says they weren't so sure it was a possibility. Nice story though and if true, what a miss.

 

[Kev Gee]

Wasn't Drogba offered to us at £750K and Warnock said no?

 

[sufc323]

I always wanted us to sign Koumas and Cameron Jerome in the mid 2000’s and though they were both destined to play for us at some point especially when we went up with Warnock.

More recently, you just knew that Eze and Watkins would turn out to be top players.

 

[Long Time Lurker]

We signed Sabella for £160k and it was reported around the time that Maradona would've cost £400k. I guess we'll never really know the exact figure but we would've been stretching ourselves to pay the Sabella fee.

 

[I should coco]

Sabella..for another 50k you could have got Maradona.

We signed Sabella for £160k and it was reported around the time that Maradona would've cost £400k. I guess we'll never really know the exact figure but we would've been stretching ourselves to pay the Sabella fee.

Pigenomics innit; twistng the facts to fit some S6 theory.

I'd always understood that Maradonna was £500k, and there was no way a Second Divsion side was going to pay that.

 

[HillStreet Blade]

Pigenomics innit; twistng the facts to fit some S6 theory.

I'd always understood that Maradonna was £500k, and there was no way a Second Divsion side was going to pay that.

There would also have been some hefty brown envelopes needed on top of the transfer fee.

 

[Old Programme seller]

I think John McGinn was talked about, one of those transfer where whatever we wanted so did Villa

 

[I should coco]

There would also have been some hefty brown envelopes needed on top of the transfer fee.

Some white envelopes with powder in too, later in his 'development'.

 

[jimmymuir]

I think John McGinn was talked about, one of those transfer where whatever we wanted so did Villa

Should've signed him instead of his brother.

 

[ATL Recs]

Pigenomics innit; twistng the facts to fit some S6 theory.

I'd always understood that Maradonna was £500k, and there was no way a Second Divsion side was going to pay that.

Yee it was 50k more

 

[Sportbilly /Detroit Blade]

Wasn't Drogba offered to us at £750K and Warnock said no?

Amazing as Warnock would usually be tossing himself off at the thought of signing more strikers!

 

[Sportbilly /Detroit Blade]

Pigenomics innit; twistng the facts to fit some S6 theory.

I'd always understood that Maradonna was £500k, and there was no way a Second Divsion side was going to pay that.

500k for us would've been massive as well, when did we first pay 500k for somebody? I want to say Brian Gayle but guess there was somebody before that?!

I remember us paying 175k for Mark Morris in 1989/90 ISH and that being massive for us, so 500k for Maradona in the 70s would've been insane.

 

[Sithblade]

500k for us would've been massive as well, when did we first pay 500k for somebody? I want to say Brian Gayle but guess there was somebody before that?!

I remember us paying 175k for Mark Morris in 1989/90 ISH and that being massive for us, so 500k for Maradona in the 70s would've been insane.

Vinnie Jones, thought it was around £500,000, but it was £700,000. Marwood was signed about the same time for £350,000. So we splashed out a million in September 1990.

 

[Nick Jansky]

Some white envelopes with powder in too, later in his 'development'.

We’ve had a few players into that over the years, including one who used to quite publicly smoke weed.

 

[wf9-Danny]

We’ve had a few players into that over the years, including one who used to quite publicly smoke weed.

Was that not because he had major issues with his joints (not a play on words)

 

[Nick Jansky]

Was that not because he had major issues with his joints (not a play on words)

No, unless we are talking about two different players.

 

[wf9-Danny]

No, unless we are talking about two different players.

Thought you meant McGrath

 

[Nick Jansky]

Thought you meant McGrath

No, more recent than that.

 

[Wards]

Remember watching Toney on loan at Northampton during a televised game, may well have been a 3rd round tie in January and he ripped it to bits. Looked a real handful and couldn't understand how he'd dropped to that level. It was the least surprising things ever to see him become such a good striker. We should've been all over it.

 

[Sportbilly /Detroit Blade]

Vinnie Jones, thought it was around £500,000, but it was £700,000. Marwood was signed about the same time for £350,000. So we splashed out a million in September 1990.

Oh yes 700k on Vinnie Jones, forgot that, then didn't well sell him for 500k or 550k to Chelsea?

 

[jt64]

On a serious note, anyone who we did actually sign 2+ years after the rumour mill thread was made. At the time when the rumour mill thread was made and the player was value and not a waste of money

 

[wf9-Danny]

No, more recent than that.

Sorry mate, he was my first thought.