The one that got away

[nigel]

Robbie Keane, from Wolves.
Both were apparently lost due to Doug's penny pinching.

I wonder how long this myth will carry on.

That's why I put 'Apparently'
I know there are 2 stories. One, JG pulled the plug and the other DD not stumping up the extra £500k.
Doug calls himself Mr Ten percent in one of his books, because he always tried to get an extra 10% off transfers.

[eastie]

Robbie Keane, from Wolves.
Both were apparently lost due to Doug's penny pinching.

I wonder how long this myth will carry on.

That's why I put 'Apparently'
I know there are 2 stories. One, JG pulled the plug and the other DD not stumping up the extra £500k.
Doug calls himself Mr Ten percent in one of his books, because he always tried to get an extra 10% off transfers.

Both Gregory and Ellis have said it was johns decision - I'm not sure why people keep dragging this up as it seems pretty clear cut .

[Concrete John]

Gregory even admits he decided not to pay the extra £500k after he left the club, so how can there be any doubt?

[SoccerHQ]

A few years ago during the MON era we had Steve mandanda on trial, French keeper who'd gone on to be first choice for Marseille and has a few french caps aswell.

Pretty sure Odemwingie was on trial here during the O'dreary years aswell.

[SoccerHQ]

Werent we offered Falcao before he left River Plate ?

Well there were a few ITK's on other Villa sights who were quite adament that we were getting Falcao. At that point no one had really that much idea he'd be one of the top strikers in the world so when it turned out to be bollocks I'm not sure too many tears were shed. I recall hoping it would happen but only because the last time we shopped at River Plate we got a player I really liked.

.    Yes we did . MON . I was told by someone who worked close to MON

Someone asked MON in a press conference if we were in for Falcao who was still at River Plate then. The idiot predictably said we weren't interested and would be looking closer to home....Harewood and Heskey turned up shortly afterwards.

[FatSam]

If we're on this topic again, then Steve Mandana and Gueida Fofana 'slipped through our fingers'.

[PeterWithesShin]

We could have signed Pele as well. But we were having enough trouble staying up at the time as it was.

[Isa]

Cabeye was all set to join us apparently before we relieved Houllier of his duties.

[Pat McMahon]

One that left as a youth player was Brian McClair IIRC.

[eastie]

One that left as a youth player was Brian McClair IIRC.

The poor lad was homesick

[BoskoDjembaSalifou]

Missing out on Mandanda still annoys me. We've got Guzan though, so I guess it worked out alright in the end!

[SoccerHQ]

Weren't we supposed to sign Oriel Romeu on loan aswell under Houllier before Chelsea signed him but that deal feel through for some reason?

[nigel]

Gregory even admits he decided not to pay the extra £500k after he left the club, so how can there be any doubt?

That's fair enough, John, I hadn't heard that.

The one that excited me most was when we had Luc Nillis, he's had been Ruud Van Nistlroy's partner. RVN was also on his way out and had mentioned that Luc was a great strike partner.
Although it was only a dream scenario, there were a few of us that were saying ' I wonder if.....'
When RVN retired he said that throughout his career Luc was the best strike partner he'd had, and he wished he'd come to Villa.
Okay, he didn't say the last bit, but I'm sure he thought it 

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

No mention of Carlton Palmer yet ?

[Simon Ward]

No mention of Carlton Palmer yet ?

Meh!