The Craziest Transfer Rumours in Sheffield United's History

[Aganarama]

Louis Donowa, the season Bassett had just got us promoted to the top flight.

We were heavily linked with Darius Lakatus in the papers one Premier League summer and also Jan Eriksson when one of the major tournaments were on.

Forgotten about Eriksson. It was Euro 92 wasn't it?

 

[DifferentClass]

Sheffield United drop bid for Kyle Hutton & John Fleck

Rangers' John Fleck and Kyle Hutton could be farmed out to Scottish First Division clubs after a switch to Sheffield United falls through.

www.bbc.co.uk

These were the failed deadline day deals that started it off. Club said problems with paperwork. As the fax was the key means by which the FA received documents at the time the tale of the broken fax machine was first muted by supporters as the reason for administrative error.

Subsequent deadline day failings with the Devante Cole saga and Donna the secretary having a large pile on her desk at 11 pm have only added to the SUFC fax machine folklore. It's now a club tradition that we mess up on the final day of the transfer window. Last year it was the winger who couldn't play for us because we hadn't read the rules properly. I await with trepidation what Mr Schieber and co have in store for us this year .

We ended up getting one in the end though and it worked out quite well for us!

 

[mancunianblade]

Can remember the back page of the star where we were weighing up spending our first Million and it was between Rob Ullathorne and Phil Massinga

 

[Oohaah! Bob Bookah!]

I may have made this up in my mind, but weren't we rumoured to be signing one of the Laudrup brothers?

 

[Aganarama]

I may have made this up in my mind, but weren't we rumoured to be signing one of the Laudrup brothers?

Michael

 

[Jermyn]

It was rumoured Davor Sukir. However it's spelt the Croatian was to be signed if we'd got promoted from the Palace play off final.

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

YorkBlade just had a heads up about your new video and the kit deal. Is that kit in the picture a mock up or something closer to the truth? Looks shit.

 

[YorkBlade]

YorkBlade just had a heads up about your new video and the kit deal. Is that kit in the picture a mock up or something closer to the truth? Looks shit.

No it's just Lincoln City's shirt with our stuff on

I'm not leaking the kit!

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

No it's just Lincoln City's shirt with our stuff on

I'm not leaking the kit!

Thank god. That's woeful.

 

[shorehamview]

Who remembers the Theo Walcott on loan rumour from some years ago? That ran for bloody ages.

 

[bladeinspaceandtime]

No it's just Lincoln City's shirt with our stuff on

I'm not leaking the kit!

Have you seen it? If so, is it shit?

 

[Guesty]

When McDonald decided to look good by pretending to try and sign Gazza and Nicky Barmby.

Pretending to sign Leroy Lita was another cracker (though that one's not an outlandish rumour in itself, if course).

Michael Laudrup has to be the king of these, though. I remember it being in The Star and my Dad saying it would have been a bad signing because he would have been our only good signing and other teams would just take turns kicking him so he wouldn't have been able to do anything. That's as may be Dad but I'd have likes to have seen him try!

 

[Nedski]

It was rumoured Davor Sukir. However it's spelt the Croatian was to be signed if we'd got promoted from the Palace play off final.

I loved Suker, very underrated and classy striker.

Does anyone remember us being linked with Artur Moses? I swear we had basically signed him, then the whole thing disappeared.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

I remember that If we'd have got a point with Wigan in 07 Warnock had Heskey lined up as our first signing

 

[Bell4]

I remember that If we'd have got a point with Wigan in 07 Warnock had Heskey lined up as our first signing

Thank fuck we went down

 

[bertieblade]

If we had beaten wolves in the play off final we had Les Ferdinand lined up

 

[Guesty]

Thank fuck we went down

Heskey played us off the park that day.

 

[Silent Blade]

Louis Donowa, the season Bassett had just got us promoted to the top flight.

Saw him play for us in a pre-season friendly at Notts County

 

[Silent Blade]

If we had beaten wolves in the play off final we had Les Ferdinand lined up

Bassett tried to sign him in 1988

 

[JayGreen17]

No it's just Lincoln City's shirt with our stuff on

I'm not leaking the kit!

Is that why you deleted the thread lol

 

[diode_blade]

Didn't we once try to sign the half Hungarian/Italian Pukkaieta Piaetta?

 

[Champagneblade]

Pretending to sign Leroy Lita was another cracker (though that one's not an outlandish rumour in itself, if course).

Michael Laudrup has to be the king of these, though. I remember it being in The Star and my Dad saying it would have been a bad signing because he would have been our only good signing and other teams would just take turns kicking him so he wouldn't have been able to do anything. That's as may be Dad but I'd have likes to have seen him try!

He was probably kicked by plenty of good players during his career too!

 

[YorkBlade]

Is that why you deleted the thread lol

I didn't. Must have been the MODS. Probably felt there was too many threads on the same subject.

 

[Sean Thornton]

I remember that If we'd have got a point with Wigan in 07 Warnock had Heskey lined up as our first signing

Another one “for the future” ?

 

[Hull Blade]

I remember that If we'd have got a point with Wigan in 07 Warnock had Heskey lined up as our first signing

Heskey cost me big coin. Missed a sitter to make it 2-2 when he swung his peg and fell over in a Liv-MU game. I think he did that often. He was either ok or fecking useless.