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Post by canadianmoose on Apr 4, 2024 2:01:42 GMT
Bobby Zamora always seemed to be close in the TP days
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Post by march4 on Apr 4, 2024 8:18:03 GMT
Robert Prytz, glad you mentioned him, Swedish midfielder at National level. I had to read about him a bit now in this nightly hour, I wondered what happened to him. He was pro at Glasgow Rangers, Atalanta, Verona, Young Boys (two sessions) and Kilmarnock among others. Guess what he's been doing after the career? He's been a mover for years and now he's going places and clean beer taps in the southern parts of Sweden. My goodness! Couldn't he have saved enough money so he didn't have to work with that? Really? 😵💫 He was at Stoke for 3 months but couldn’t play due to work permit issues. To rub salt in the wound he then went to Rangers and was granted a work permit. He did well in Scotland.
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Post by monkeycat on Apr 4, 2024 8:20:07 GMT
Rodallega
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Post by LGH87 on Apr 4, 2024 8:31:08 GMT
David James, did we ever get to the bottom of that one?
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Post by fullmetaljacket on Apr 4, 2024 8:54:11 GMT
Didn't we have Emerson Thome over at one point. Benfica centre back if I remember right.
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Post by jesusmcmuffin on Apr 4, 2024 9:31:14 GMT
Was a Man U reserve player, all but signed but never happened about 30 years ago. Straggly longish hair, ended up at West Brom. Decent enough midfielder.. name escapes me...He was at the ground but never signed. Happened a lot in those days. 4 or 5 players agreed in principal to come but fell through the day due to sign.
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Post by SuperRickyFuller on Apr 4, 2024 9:32:41 GMT
Was a Man U reserve player, all but signed but never happened about 30 years ago. Straggly longish hair, ended up at West Brom. Decent enough midfielder.. name escapes me...He was at the ground but never signed. Happened a lot in those days. 4 or 5 players agreed in principal to come but fell through the day due to sign. Jonathan Greening? Think he went to Middlesbrough at first then West Brom.
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Post by jesusmcmuffin on Apr 4, 2024 9:36:48 GMT
Was a Man U reserve player, all but signed but never happened about 30 years ago. Straggly longish hair, ended up at West Brom. Decent enough midfielder.. name escapes me...He was at the ground but never signed. Happened a lot in those days. 4 or 5 players agreed in principal to come but fell through the day due to sign. Jonathan Greening? Think he went to Middlesbrough at first then West Brom. Good shout. He was due to sign and play at the weekend and then...as if by magic Yes 👍
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Post by SuperRickyFuller on Apr 4, 2024 9:49:57 GMT
Jonathan Greening? Think he went to Middlesbrough at first then West Brom. Good shout. He was due to sign and play at the weekend and then...as if by magic Yes 👍 Think it was during the first Pulis era because I think Boro signed Greening and another lad called Mark Wilson from Man United at the same time. Certain we had Wilson on loan from Boro as well. It's funny what random players we remember when they had absolutely zero bearing on our history 😂
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Post by jesusmcmuffin on Apr 4, 2024 9:55:46 GMT
Good shout. He was due to sign and play at the weekend and then...as if by magic Yes 👍 Think it was during the first Pulis era because I think Boro signed Greening and another lad called Mark Wilson from Man United at the same time. Certain we had Wilson on loan from Boro as well. It's funny what random players we remember when they had absolutely zero bearing on our history 😂 Thing was, when Greening didn't sign he didn't automatically go to another club. Was a while later. Did he go to Boro under Robson? Was a striker from Dundee Utd set to sign when we just moved to the Brit and same with him. Trevor Benjamin another one who was a nearly man
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Post by SuperRickyFuller on Apr 4, 2024 10:02:30 GMT
Think it was during the first Pulis era because I think Boro signed Greening and another lad called Mark Wilson from Man United at the same time. Certain we had Wilson on loan from Boro as well. It's funny what random players we remember when they had absolutely zero bearing on our history 😂 Thing was, when Greening didn't sign he didn't automatically go to another club. Was a while later. Did he go to Boro under Robson? Was a striker from Dundee Uts set to sign when we just moved to the Brit and same with him. Think you're right, think Robson signed both Greening and Wilson at the same time from Man United. For some reason I've got Robbie Winters in mind but I think we were linked with him when we were in Division 2 under Gudjon and he was at Aberdeen. Did a quick Google and he started at Dundee United so could be him you're thinking of?
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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Apr 4, 2024 10:42:10 GMT
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Post by dirtygary69 on Apr 4, 2024 10:46:55 GMT
Good shout. He was due to sign and play at the weekend and then...as if by magic Yes 👍 Think it was during the first Pulis era because I think Boro signed Greening and another lad called Mark Wilson from Man United at the same time. Certain we had Wilson on loan from Boro as well. It's funny what random players we remember when they had absolutely zero bearing on our history 😂 Wilson was rubbish. He started one game (or came on) on the right of midfield and he was so basic it was funny. Sure he only featured that once. Didn't we have Lee Martin as well? He was crud too.
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Post by jesusmcmuffin on Apr 4, 2024 10:52:14 GMT
Thing was, when Greening didn't sign he didn't automatically go to another club. Was a while later. Did he go to Boro under Robson? Was a striker from Dundee Uts set to sign when we just moved to the Brit and same with him. Think you're right, think Robson signed both Greening and Wilson at the same time from Man United. For some reason I've got Robbie Winters in mind but I think we were linked with him when we were in Division 2 under Gudjon and he was at Aberdeen. Did a quick Google and he started at Dundee United so could be him you're thinking of? The reason I remember it was because the day he was due to sign I was in reception picking up some tickets and when I came out was a Dad and his lad who had obviously come out of the club shop. The lad asked me was I X the player due to sign. Was very tempted to say yes and sign something but the Dad looked a bit handy. That rings a bell as he had def played for Aberdeen
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Post by greenhoff on Apr 4, 2024 10:55:17 GMT
Kieren Trippier was all but done until Spurs intervened
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Post by bayernoatcake on Apr 4, 2024 11:26:26 GMT
1 Carson 2. ? 3. Robertson 4. ? 5. Maguire 6. ? 7. ? 8. Platt 9. Ba 10. Remy 11. Martinez Carson was absolutely useless and his decision to choose wba almost certainly saved us from an inevitable relegation First choices that season were him and Anthony Gardner. We got Sorro and Faye instead.
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Post by Staying up for Grandadstokey on Apr 4, 2024 13:11:04 GMT
Mark "Pancho" Pearson from Man U many years ago.Never forget the headline in the Sentinel "Pearson deal off , wants town Hall clock!".
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Post by J-Roar on Apr 4, 2024 13:31:27 GMT
Mark "Pancho" Pearson from Man U many years ago.Never forget the headline in the Sentinel "Pearson deal off , wants town Hall clock!". Stuart Pearson
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Post by J-Roar on Apr 4, 2024 13:33:20 GMT
Who's this Best and Xi we nearly signed? Is one from Northern Ireland and the other Chinese? We should be told! Can only read title as George Best nearly signed the Chinese player Xi now!
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Post by jesusmcmuffin on Apr 4, 2024 13:45:51 GMT
When I was a kid I don't think a week went by when Durban didn't try to sign Phil Dwyer from Cardiff
Red haired lad from West ham was close to signing twice. Name will come to me
James Collins
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 4, 2024 17:24:49 GMT
Carson was absolutely useless and his decision to choose wba almost certainly saved us from an inevitable relegation First choices that season were him and Anthony Gardner. We got Sorro and Faye instead. "better to be lucky than good" was certainly something that could be levelled at Pulis on many an occasion.
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Post by march4 on Apr 4, 2024 17:28:38 GMT
First choices that season were him and Anthony Gardner. We got Sorro and Faye instead. "better to be lucky than good" was certainly something that could be levelled at Pulis on many an occasion. Thankfully TP was lucky and good.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 4, 2024 17:41:55 GMT
He certainly seemed to land on formula's that worked having persisted with his shitter signings for far too long. See Ameobi, Griffin at right back, Steven Pearson, Dean Whitehead instead of Whelan and the absolutely woeful Charlie Adam/Peter Crouch combo.
Had we completed the key centre forward signing he wanted, our history may well have been a lot different. We wanted Dexter Blackstock and got Ricardo Fuller
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Post by lordb on Apr 4, 2024 17:46:09 GMT
Steve Stone when he was a youngster, loan fell through
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Post by jesusmcmuffin on Apr 4, 2024 18:41:09 GMT
Steve Stone when he was a youngster, loan fell through Was permanent, 50 k Bloighie pulled the plug due to injuries
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Post by drippinggoatsnob on Apr 5, 2024 6:28:38 GMT
Lewandowski along with two other young Polish players was referred to the club by a German contact and was due to come on trial. The club eventually pulled the plug on the deal as we didn't want to pay the airfare.
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Post by jesusmcmuffin on Apr 5, 2024 17:08:07 GMT
When we signed Hoekstra we were trying to sign another Dutch player, name escapes me, a striker
Was only when the player rejected us that his agent also had Hoekstra and recommended him as an alternative.
Seems to remember a certain website saying we were signing Huistra the ex Rangers player when the story seemed to leek at the Newcastle Town friendly
Not saying was this site of course
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Post by nottinghamstokie on Apr 5, 2024 17:34:53 GMT
Kevin Drinkwell was always rumoured to be joining Drinkell
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Post by J-Roar on Apr 5, 2024 19:43:23 GMT
Kevin Drinkwell was always rumoured to be joining Drinkell Haha. The bastard son of Kevin Drinkell and Danny Drinkwater
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Post by jesusmcmuffin on Apr 5, 2024 19:48:25 GMT
Joe Royle said he nearly joined us but went to Bristol City instead at the last minute. Think he scored 4 the next week.
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