Alpay - your memories

[Kevin_Yahoo]

Hello there.

I'm writing an article about Alpay and I want to get fans' memories about him as a player and a man. Some of you may remember I did something similar on Hassan Kachloul a few months back.

Any memories/stories you have about Alpay - the good and the bad - please post them here. Especially good would be any personal memories you have of meeting him/seeing him around - stuff like that.

I'd want to use some of the your quotes for the article, which will appear on the Yahoo Football website next week. So if you don't want your comments to be used then let me know, and they won't be. I will credit Heroes and Villains rather than individual posters.

Cheers,
Kevin

Here's the Kachloul piece from before: https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/blast-past-no-1-hassan-100202773.html

[LeeB]

Wanker.

(Not you mate)

[in exile]

I concur

[Comrade Blitz]

Mums in Four Oak used to get all hot and bothered when he took his children to school.

[Holte L2]

Egotistical fucking prick.

[aj2k77]

Twat nutter.

[PeterWithe]

I think he was a ******. You are welcome to use that.

[Villan For Life]

He was good for a short spell for us, maybe half a season. He went to the World Cup, had a good tournament and became Billy Big Bollocks. He really seemed to believe the hype that the media were spurting about him and as a result his career seemed to stall.

He is in my all-time detested Villa Players six a side team.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Was really pleased when we signed him...he had been outstanding in the Euro Champs. Remember watching him and thinking "Who is this bloke? He's brilliant!" A few weeks later we signed him! Which in my head indicated we were going places.

Unfortunately, can't remember him having a decent game after only a few in that first season...and his attitude became more and more sulky as time went on and it seemed as if he deliberately underperformed. Was glad to see the back of him when he left.

[Clampy]

I thought he'd died when I saw the title of the thread.

Yep, the good World Cup he had went to his head. He was quite good before that.

[not3bad]

Great defender for us until he got too big for his boots and went the way of Downing/Delph.

[ChicagoLion]

The guy was phsycoligically flawed, you could tell that. Some part of his brain not not wired up properly.He was without doubt a talented footballer but his head was not right.
His attitude after the World Cup stank.


Edit sorry I forgot to mention he was a twat

[YamYamVilla]

the only time I have booed at anything Villa was when Alpay scored (against Charlton was it?) when he ran to the crowd with his hand to his ear, what a jump jockey.

Spent most of the time injured only to "recover" in time to play for Turkey, if look up twat in the dictionary, you will find his picture.

[PeterWithesShin]

Had a decent first season, second season him and Mellberg looked good until Alpay got injured after about a dozen games missing the rest of the season. Recovered and went to the World Cup, came back a twat, was rarely picked, got sacked for acting an even bigger twat in the Beckham incident. I'd imagine most of us were delighted he'd gone. Was sacked by his Japanese club for being a twat. Was dropped by Koln for being a twat.

Fair to say, he was a twat.

[DeeBoy1]

For me never has the phrase hero to villain been more apt. Absolutely loved him in that season with Melberg and then it all fell apart after the World Cup. Then the Beckham thing happened at the height of Beckhamania and that was that, contract terminated by Doug and he pretty much fled the country!