The Nearly Men

[Steve67]

Terry Butcher. Can't remember when. Fat Frank too.

[supertom]

Didn't Ron have a look at Bierhoff but didn't fancy him?

[brian green]

I remember when Sheringham and Cascarino were both at Millwall. We were told (Gregory?) that we could have one but not both. We took Cascarino.

[peter w]

Taylor.

[rob_bridge]

Wasn't Taylor's valuation of Sherringham about 1m and Cascarino's 800k and we ended up paying 1.5m for Cascarino. Good old Doug

[ADVILLAFAN]

I remember when Sheringham and Cascarino were both at Millwall. We were told (Gregory?) that we could have one but not both. We took Cascarino.

I heard that we wanted Sheringham and Millwall were not prepared to let him leave, so we spent the money for him on Cascarino instead.

[RussellC]

This is a very random one, but in the summer that we signed Southgate, Draper and Milosevic, we were linked to Chris Coleman for almost the whole summer and I remember him being as quoted as saying "I'd walk there to play for them." I even asked Brain Little about it at a Villa Park open-day and he refused to deny he was trying to sign him!

I've no idea why it didn't happen in the end, but looking back that was a really exciting summer, wasn't it?!

[Clampy]

I may have dreamed this one but I seem to remember us being in for Gary Lineker before he signed for Spurs?

No you didn't dream it but i'm not sure where he was playing at the time. I remember GT mentioning it in a forum. He said that had the deal gone through, we wouldn't been able to afford anyone else for a couple of seasons which in the end put Sir Graham off.

[nigel]

I may have dreamed this one but I seem to remember us being in for Gary Lineker before he signed for Spurs?

No you didn't dream it but i'm not sure where he was playing at the time. I remember GT mentioning it in a forum. He said that had the deal gone through, we wouldn't been able to afford anyone else for a couple of seasons which in the end put Sir Graham off.

Lineker always seems to dislike us on MotD, I wonder if that's the reason?

[Dave]

Given how we've played for the last few years, I'm surprised there is any TV viewer that doesn't dislike us.

[MoetVillan]

I remember us being strongly linked to Fwank.  Of all those potential signings, he would have been the best by a mile.

[Lucky Eddie]

No he wouldn't, Lineker or Sheringham could have won us the league once if not twice we were that close.

[peter w]

Sheringham instead of Cascarino and we may have been closer, but not when lineker was linked we wouldn't.

[cdbearsfan]

This is all pretty depressing. I've not been so upset reading through Heroes and Villains since the "Disaster strikes local news" thread.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Apparently Gudni Bergsson had a trial for us.