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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Karl Bridges on October 16, 2013, 11:26:16 PM
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We all know the long list of players who could have signed for Villa but slipped through the net somehow.
I had no idea we had Adnan Januzaj on trial before he went to Utd. One of our former youth players was tweeting about him when he scored the two goals for Utd
ADNAN SCORED! I trained with him for like a week at villa and played against him couple times since, maybe best I've played with/against
ok ok never mind maybe, he is the best player I've ever played with /Against , wooooooow
Safe to say Adnan was the best trialist villa ever bought in.......
Fancy getting seduced by Utd, he'd have probably played 30 odd games by now if he'd have come here.
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MON, Houllier or McLeish era?
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He signed for Utd when he was 16, so i'd presume it was just before that. He's 18 now.
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Lambert will have him in JANUARY. ;)
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He signed for Utd when he was 16, so i'd presume it was just before that. He's 18 now.
If I was a betting man I'd say Houllier though it sounds like a McLeish thing to just let such a good player go.
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We didn't sign a 16 year old we had on trial. May as well just pack up and disband the club.
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I think it was more that he chose Utd, rather than us letting him go.
@ Dave, I just didn't know we'd had him at the club. If he goes on to be as good as is being suggested, then he's another name to add to the list of Villa folklore of nearly but not quite.
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I think it was more that he chose Utd, rather than us letting him go.
@ Dave, I just didn't know we'd had him at the club. If he goes on to be as good as is being suggested, then he's another name to add to the list of Villa folklore of nearly but not quite.
We haven't let many slip through our fingers over the years though.
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We haven't let anything slip through our fingers. The kid has played one very good game against a side that is utterly gash. In fact had Man U been playing anything to the level they should be these past few weeks we'd still never have heard of him as he'd be stuck in the reserves. Let's just see how he performs in the next few games now that he is no longer a surprise.
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Fancy getting seduced by Utd, he'd have probably played 30 odd games by now if he'd have come here.
More likely he'd be on loan to someone like Notts County if he were here now.
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I think it was more that he chose Utd, rather than us letting him go.
@ Dave, I just didn't know we'd had him at the club. If he goes on to be as good as is being suggested, then he's another name to add to the list of Villa folklore of nearly but not quite.
We haven't let many slip through our fingers over the years though.
Sturridge, but he hardly 'slipped through our fingers'.
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We didn't sign a 16 year old we had on trial. May as well just pack up and disband the club.
Think of the massive profit we've lost out on.
Could have sold him for £25m in 2 years time to a big club.
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We all know the long list of players who could have signed for Villa but slipped through the net somehow.
I don't know any youngsters that 'slipped through the net' , but, I can think of a couple of players who could/would have signed, and made a huge difference, for the club.
Juninio (spelling?) and Robbie Keane, from Wolves.
Both were apparently lost due to Doug's penny pinching.
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We all know the long list of players who could have signed for Villa but slipped through the net somehow.
I don't know any youngsters that 'slipped through the net' , but, I can think of a couple of players who could/would have signed, and made a huge difference, for the club.
Juninio (spelling?) and Robbie Keane, from Wolves.
Both were apparently lost due to Doug's penny pinching.
We signed Ginola instead.
;D
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Juninio (spelling?) and Robbie Keane, from Wolves.
Both were apparently lost due to Doug's penny pinching.
I thought in Keane's case it was because Gregory didn't think much to him.
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Juninio (spelling?) and Robbie Keane, from Wolves.
Both were apparently lost due to Doug's penny pinching.
I thought in Keane's case it was because Gregory didn't think much to him.
I thought Wolves wanted an extra £500k to make it £6m and Fergie said something about him not being worth the £500k alone, and Doug pulled out of the deal?
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Juninio (spelling?) and Robbie Keane, from Wolves.
Both were apparently lost due to Doug's penny pinching.
I thought in Keane's case it was because Gregory didn't think much to him.
I thought Wolves wanted an extra £500k to make it £6m and Fergie said something about him not being worth the £500k alone, and Doug pulled out of the deal?
I think it was Gregory who pulled the deal, not Doug.
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Juninio (spelling?) and Robbie Keane, from Wolves.
Both were apparently lost due to Doug's penny pinching.
I thought in Keane's case it was because Gregory didn't think much to him.
I thought Wolves wanted an extra £500k to make it £6m and Fergie said something about him not being worth the £500k alone, and Doug pulled out of the deal?
I think it was Gregory who pulled the deal, not Doug.
Correct clampy ! Gregory decided not to sign him , in his book he confirmed that the money was there but he decided not to proceed.
I remember him saying one night he watched at molineux and wolves fans were saying to him ' you must sign him ' which he found very odd .
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Robbie Keane, from Wolves.
Both were apparently lost due to Doug's penny pinching.
I wonder how long this myth will carry on.
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We all know the long list of players who could have signed for Villa but slipped through the net somehow.
I don't know any youngsters that 'slipped through the net' , but, I can think of a couple of players who could/would have signed, and made a huge difference, for the club.
Juninio (spelling?) and Robbie Keane, from Wolves.
Both were apparently lost due to Doug's penny pinching.
And Juninho was a bullet dodged. He did nothing for Boro when he went back there.
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We all know the long list of players who could have signed for Villa but slipped through the net somehow.
I don't know any youngsters that 'slipped through the net' , but, I can think of a couple of players who could/would have signed, and made a huge difference, for the club.
Juninio (spelling?) and Robbie Keane, from Wolves.
Both were apparently lost due to Doug's penny pinching.
And Juninho was a bullet dodged. He did nothing for Boro when he went back there.
But this was from the first time he went to Boro, when he was good?
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Werent we offered Falcao before he left River Plate ?
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We all know the long list of players who could have signed for Villa but slipped through the net somehow.
I don't know any youngsters that 'slipped through the net' , but, I can think of a couple of players who could/would have signed, and made a huge difference, for the club.
Juninio (spelling?) and Robbie Keane, from Wolves.
Both were apparently lost due to Doug's penny pinching.
And Juninho was a bullet dodged. He did nothing for Boro when he went back there.
But this was from the first time he went to Boro, when he was good?
No, he was with Atletico at the time.
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Every big club is going to miss out on players they could have signed now and again, the rest of the Premier League will be kicking themselves that they didn't sign Benteke from the Belgian league.
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Every big club is going to miss out on players they could have signed now and again, the rest of the Premier League will be kicking themselves that they didn't sign Benteke from the Belgian league.
Didn't Sheffiled United turn down Maradona?
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Every big club is going to miss out on players they could have signed now and again, the rest of the Premier League will be kicking themselves that they didn't sign Benteke from the Belgian league.
Didn't Sheffiled United turn down Maradona?
But they ended up with Brian Deane. They can't moan.
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Was it Bierhoff we turned down back in the early 90's? BFR's era.
We seemed to be linked to Juninho for a good stretch of 2-3 years IIRC. It was one of those that always persisted in the rumour mill but never came off. Bit like Benni McCarthy.
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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.
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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.
We also probably wouldn't have got a work permit for him at the time as he didn't really play for Colombia at that time.
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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
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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.
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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 .
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Gregory even admits he decided not to pay the extra £500k after he left the club, so how can there be any doubt?
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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.
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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.
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If we're on this topic again, then Steve Mandana and Gueida Fofana 'slipped through our fingers'.
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We could have signed Pele as well. But we were having enough trouble staying up at the time as it was.
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Cabeye was all set to join us apparently before we relieved Houllier of his duties.
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One that left as a youth player was Brian McClair IIRC.
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One that left as a youth player was Brian McClair IIRC.
The poor lad was homesick :)
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Missing out on Mandanda still annoys me. We've got Guzan though, so I guess it worked out alright in the end!
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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?
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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 ;D
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No mention of Carlton Palmer yet ?
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No mention of Carlton Palmer yet ?
Meh!
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The sale of Gary Cahill still annoys me, particularly with what MON subsequently did with the defence.
Cahill could stilll be our lynchpin in defence.
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And, O'Dreary selling Crouch was a mistake given how much S'ton got from Liverpool for him thereafter.
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We could have signed Pele as well. But we were having enough trouble staying up at the time as it was.
LOL - Nice one PWS
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Didn't Doug used to make sure the local media got fed rumours of big name signings at season ticket renewal time ?
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Didn't Doug used to make sure the local media got fed rumours of big name signings at season ticket renewal time ?
Remember 'the list'?
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Lambert will have him in JANUARY. ;)
Signed 5 year deal at Man U according to Lineker.
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Lambert will have him in JANUARY. ;)
Signed 5 year deal at Man U according to Lineker.
According to the press too - he signed last night .
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Every big club is going to miss out on players they could have signed now and again, the rest of the Premier League will be kicking themselves that they didn't sign Benteke from the Belgian league.
Didn't Sheffiled United turn down Maradona?
Apparently so! Got Alex Sabella instead.
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I remember hearing that Albion had Shearer on trial but declared him "too small".
I would love that to be true.
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Talking of players that slipped through the Albion's fingers, here's a nice story about the most famous example.
And wasn't it Ron Saunders who gave him away?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-24601248
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Talking of players that slipped through the Albion's fingers, here's a nice story about the most famous example.
And wasn't it Ron Saunders who gave him away?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-24601248
£64,000 because his first touch wasn't good enough.
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Talking of players that slipped through the Albion's fingers, here's a nice story about the most famous example.
And wasn't it Ron Saunders who gave him away?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-24601248
£64,000 because his first touch wasn't good enough.
Ha ha - but his second touch was usually a goal
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Think Blackburn were close to getting Zidane, but signed someone else instead (maybe Tim Sherwood).
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And, O'Dreary selling Crouch was a mistake given how much S'ton got from Liverpool for him thereafter.
Much as I hate to defend the pug-nosed fool, I don't remember many people complaining at the time about flogging Crouch.
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Apologies for dragging up this old thread, but it doesn't justify a new one.
I see that Yacine Brahimi who we were heavily linked with during the 2012 summer transfer window is playing for Porto in the CL, and scored a hatrick (http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/season=2015/matches/round=2000548/match=2014313/index.html) last week.
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werent we in for Christian Vieri early in his career?
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werent we in for Christian Vieri early in his career?
Thank you for asking. I met Christian Vieri just after his move to Inter for a world record fee. We were on top of the Empire State Building and he confirmed that we had talked to him about a move. He said he was keen, but for whatever reason it never happened.
The rest of the time I starred, probably for too long, at his girlfriend.
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It was JG wasn't it going to buy him - I was so excited and he really seemed to want to come here....shame.
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Did it come off the back of our game against him and Atleti in the Uefa Cup in '98? Gregz habit of trying to buy players who played well against us would have come up trumps with that one.
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I'd have loved to have signed Sturridge when he was just coming through at City and was being linked to us, didn't we have his Dad as a guest at one of the games?
He would've developed well here I reckon rather than rotting on the bench at Chelsea for 18 months and we could've rotated him with Gabby.
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Wasn't Sturridge on our books as a kid? I think we let him go and he joined Coventry. Someone dropped a bollock there.
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Bullets dodged can work the other way as well. Wasn't Gregory in for Muzzy Izzett at £8m?
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We probably dodged one with James Beattie.
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Vieri played for 15 clubs in 18 years, and six of them were at Inter, who bought him when we were after him for £32 million. I don;t think we were ever serious.
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Wasn't Sturridge on our books as a kid? I think we let him go and he joined Coventry. Someone dropped a bollock there.
He was. His Dad wanted a ridiculous amount of money for us to keep him.
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It was his Dad and Uncle that told him to take the money and join Chelsea too when he was becoming a regular at a very different Man City. I really wonder about some of the people around footballers. If I was in their position, I would be more interested in seeing my son become a first team regular. Knowing that if they did that, the money would take care of itself. Sturridge could have just as easily become another Luke Moore at Chelsea and ultimately made much less money over the course of his career.
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It was his Dad and Uncle that told him to take the money and join Chelsea too when he was becoming a regular at a very different Man City. I really wonder about some of the people around footballers. If I was in their position, I would be more interested in seeing my son become a first team regular. Knowing that if they did that, the money would take care of itself. Sturridge could have just as easily become another Luke Moore at Chelsea and ultimately made much less money over the course of his career.
That four year deal at Chelsea would have netted him over £12m. It's very easy to think that somebody else's son should wave goodbye to financial security for the rest of his life, it's probably different when it's your own.
He could have stayed at Man City and got a career ending injury six months later. How good would that advice have looked then?
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Wasn't Sturridge on our books as a kid? I think we let him go and he joined Coventry. Someone dropped a bollock there.
He was. His Dad wanted a ridiculous amount of money for us to keep him.
When he was 12 years old?
Sturridge must surely already be a contender for the best ever Brummie player?
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Wasn't Sturridge on our books as a kid? I think we let him go and he joined Coventry. Someone dropped a bollock there.
He was. His Dad wanted a ridiculous amount of money for us to keep him.
When he was 12 years old?
Sturridge must surely already be a contender for the best ever Brummie player?
Like fuck is he.
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Troll alert.
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Didn't we ask Henrik Larsson to play in a trial match against Walsall rather than just sign him? He said stuff that for a game of soldiers.
He went on to score 325 goals in 576 games winning The Champions League and various other honours including an MBE as well as being a pretty good footballer.
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It was his Dad and Uncle that told him to take the money and join Chelsea too when he was becoming a regular at a very different Man City. I really wonder about some of the people around footballers. If I was in their position, I would be more interested in seeing my son become a first team regular. Knowing that if they did that, the money would take care of itself. Sturridge could have just as easily become another Luke Moore at Chelsea and ultimately made much less money over the course of his career.
That four year deal at Chelsea would have netted him over £12m. It's very easy to think that somebody else's son should wave goodbye to financial security for the rest of his life, it's probably different when it's your own.
He could have stayed at Man City and got a career ending injury six months later. How good would that advice have looked then?
Its not like Man City would have been offering a pittance. The likelihood was always that it was far more likely that he wouldn't break into Chelsea's first team as a regular than he would suffer a career ending injury. I just hate seeing young talented players trying to run before they can walk and being given what in most circumstances would be poor career advice.
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Wasn't Sturridge on our books as a kid? I think we let him go and he joined Coventry. Someone dropped a bollock there.
He was. His Dad wanted a ridiculous amount of money for us to keep him.
When he was 12 years old?
Yes, Mr. Troll.
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Didn't we ask Henrik Larsson to play in a trial match against Walsall rather than just sign him? He said stuff that for a game of soldiers.
He went on to score 325 goals in 576 games winning The Champions League and various other honours including an MBE as well as being a pretty good footballer.
Are we not getting into this territory? http://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=49790.15
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Didn't we ask Henrik Larsson to play in a trial match against Walsall rather than just sign him? He said stuff that for a game of soldiers.
He went on to score 325 goals in 576 games winning The Champions League and various other honours including an MBE as well as being a pretty good footballer.
Are we not getting into this territory? http://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=49790.15
I do remember the other Larsen...but I was pretty sure we were linked with the real deal too. I thought we were about to sign him, but wanted him to come over to play in a friendly and he felt it was a bit of a snub. This was a few years before he was at Celtic.
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It was his Dad and Uncle that told him to take the money and join Chelsea too when he was becoming a regular at a very different Man City. I really wonder about some of the people around footballers. If I was in their position, I would be more interested in seeing my son become a first team regular. Knowing that if they did that, the money would take care of itself. Sturridge could have just as easily become another Luke Moore at Chelsea and ultimately made much less money over the course of his career.
That four year deal at Chelsea would have netted him over £12m. It's very easy to think that somebody else's son should wave goodbye to financial security for the rest of his life, it's probably different when it's your own.
He could have stayed at Man City and got a career ending injury six months later. How good would that advice have looked then?
Its not like Man City would have been offering a pittance. The likelihood was always that it was far more likely that he wouldn't break into Chelsea's first team as a regular than he would suffer a career ending injury. I just hate seeing young talented players trying to run before they can walk and being given what in most circumstances would be poor career advice.
And in this case it was perfectly sound career advice.
And let's say he didn't break into Chelsea's first team. Which he didn't.
Then he goes somewhere else and earns a huge amount of money at another club. Which he did.
But probably about £8m richer than had he not followed that bad advice.
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It was his Dad and Uncle that told him to take the money and join Chelsea too when he was becoming a regular at a very different Man City. I really wonder about some of the people around footballers. If I was in their position, I would be more interested in seeing my son become a first team regular. Knowing that if they did that, the money would take care of itself. Sturridge could have just as easily become another Luke Moore at Chelsea and ultimately made much less money over the course of his career.
That four year deal at Chelsea would have netted him over £12m. It's very easy to think that somebody else's son should wave goodbye to financial security for the rest of his life, it's probably different when it's your own.
He could have stayed at Man City and got a career ending injury six months later. How good would that advice have looked then?
Given some of the wages we were paying out at time I doubt he'd have been on that much less tbh here.
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It was his Dad and Uncle that told him to take the money and join Chelsea too when he was becoming a regular at a very different Man City. I really wonder about some of the people around footballers. If I was in their position, I would be more interested in seeing my son become a first team regular. Knowing that if they did that, the money would take care of itself. Sturridge could have just as easily become another Luke Moore at Chelsea and ultimately made much less money over the course of his career.
That four year deal at Chelsea would have netted him over £12m. It's very easy to think that somebody else's son should wave goodbye to financial security for the rest of his life, it's probably different when it's your own.
He could have stayed at Man City and got a career ending injury six months later. How good would that advice have looked then?
Given some of the wages we were paying out at time I doubt he'd have been on that much less tbh here.
We don't really enter this conversation. We weren't one of his options.
Man City and Chelsea were.
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Wasn't Sturridge on our books as a kid? I think we let him go and he joined Coventry. Someone dropped a bollock there.
He was. His Dad wanted a ridiculous amount of money for us to keep him.
When he was 12 years old?
Yes, Mr. Troll.
How exactly do you pay a 12 year old?
And why would he then join Coventry?
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Wasn't Sturridge on our books as a kid? I think we let him go and he joined Coventry. Someone dropped a bollock there.
He was. His Dad wanted a ridiculous amount of money for us to keep him.
When he was 12 years old?
Yes, Mr. Troll.
How exactly do you pay a 12 year old?
And why would he then join Coventry?
With money, to his parents.
Maybe they paid it.
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It was his Dad and Uncle that told him to take the money and join Chelsea too when he was becoming a regular at a very different Man City. I really wonder about some of the people around footballers. If I was in their position, I would be more interested in seeing my son become a first team regular. Knowing that if they did that, the money would take care of itself. Sturridge could have just as easily become another Luke Moore at Chelsea and ultimately made much less money over the course of his career.
That four year deal at Chelsea would have netted him over £12m. It's very easy to think that somebody else's son should wave goodbye to financial security for the rest of his life, it's probably different when it's your own.
He could have stayed at Man City and got a career ending injury six months later. How good would that advice have looked then?
Given some of the wages we were paying out at time I doubt he'd have been on that much less tbh here.
We don't really enter this conversation. We weren't one of his options.
Man City and Chelsea were.
As I said earlier I'm sure I remember reading we invited his Dad as a guest at one of our home games when he was still at City so I reckon we were in the courting stage at least as he did fit the type (Young, English) we were signing at time.
Anyway off the top of my head from in recent season, I'd say Houllier going and the Cabaye deal seemingly falling through would be one that got away.
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Robbie Keane was an unboubted talent, but I think if JG had signed him from Wolves he'd have flopped for us. A heavily pregnant Mrs Pablo & I had the 'pleasure' of going into our works box at Wolves when they played Werder Bremen in a pre-season friendly, with JG 2 boxes along. Wolves & Keane were that shit JG went at half time, & Keane was subbed not long afterwards.
It was that shit Mrs Pablo went into labour the following morning 2 weeks early, & Junior Pablo was born.
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Wasn't Sturridge on our books as a kid? I think we let him go and he joined Coventry. Someone dropped a bollock there.
He was. His Dad wanted a ridiculous amount of money for us to keep him.
When he was 12 years old?
Yes, Mr. Troll.
How exactly do you pay a 12 year old?
And why would he then join Coventry?
With money, to his parents.
Maybe they paid it.
Correct.
They did.
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Robbie Keane was an unboubted talent, but I think if JG had signed him from Wolves he'd have flopped for us. A heavily pregnant Mrs Pablo & I had the 'pleasure' of going into our works box at Wolves when they played Werder Bremen in a pre-season friendly, with JG 2 boxes along. Wolves & Keane were that shit JG went at half time, & Keane was subbed not long afterwards.
It was that shit Mrs Pablo went into labour the following morning 2 weeks early, & Junior Pablo was born.
And indeed Doug seems to often be cited as the reason the Keane deal fell through, but did JG not admit that he was the one who didn't think Keane was worth the extra 500k and pulled the plug?
It's okay though. We got Bosko Balaban.
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Robbie Keane was an unboubted talent, but I think if JG had signed him from Wolves he'd have flopped for us. A heavily pregnant Mrs Pablo & I had the 'pleasure' of going into our works box at Wolves when they played Werder Bremen in a pre-season friendly, with JG 2 boxes along. Wolves & Keane were that shit JG went at half time, & Keane was subbed not long afterwards.
It was that shit Mrs Pablo went into labour the following morning 2 weeks early, & Junior Pablo was born.
And indeed Doug seems to often be cited as the reason the Keane deal fell through, but did JG not admit that he was the one who didn't think Keane was worth the extra 500k and pulled the plug?
It's okay though. We got Bosko Balaban.
That's what he says. He also said he believed Sirralix psyched him out of the deal by saying it was a lot of money for a 19 year old, he wouldn't fancy it himself & c.
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It was his Dad and Uncle that told him to take the money and join Chelsea too when he was becoming a regular at a very different Man City. I really wonder about some of the people around footballers. If I was in their position, I would be more interested in seeing my son become a first team regular. Knowing that if they did that, the money would take care of itself. Sturridge could have just as easily become another Luke Moore at Chelsea and ultimately made much less money over the course of his career.
That four year deal at Chelsea would have netted him over £12m. It's very easy to think that somebody else's son should wave goodbye to financial security for the rest of his life, it's probably different when it's your own.
He could have stayed at Man City and got a career ending injury six months later. How good would that advice have looked then?
Its not like Man City would have been offering a pittance. The likelihood was always that it was far more likely that he wouldn't break into Chelsea's first team as a regular than he would suffer a career ending injury. I just hate seeing young talented players trying to run before they can walk and being given what in most circumstances would be poor career advice.
And in this case it was perfectly sound career advice.
And let's say he didn't break into Chelsea's first team. Which he didn't.
Then he goes somewhere else and earns a huge amount of money at another club. Which he did.
But probably about £8m richer than had he not followed that bad advice.
And then became England's main man up front!!
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There is something very likeable about Sturridge, even playing for completely unlikeable teams. Good luck to him.
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Didn't Doug used to make sure the local media got fed rumours of big name signings at season ticket renewal time ?
Under Doug it was always rumours. I remember him saying Villa could compete with anyone in the transfer market. We didn't though. It always grated on me that clubs like Everton and Spurs could make big name signings and we didn't.
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What we had off to an art form under Doug was making a bid that was just less than the selling club would settle for, or just after they'd agreed a deal with someone else.
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A former Villa scout ,played a few times for Wolves and whose son had played for Villa at U21 level,told me that he had recommended a young Joleon Lescott to the club.
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I'm amazed that no one has mentioned how close we were to signing arguably one of the Premier Leagues best ever players Frank Lampard... http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11677/2211333/villa-confirm-lampard-talks
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Deal to Chelsea was practically done when we made our bid. Think that one was Deadly playing games with us.
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If memory serves, Lampard had already agreed terms by the time we tabled a bid of about 3m less than had been agreed between Chelsea and West Ham.
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A former Villa scout ,played a few times for Wolves and whose son had played for Villa at U21 level,told me that he had recommended a young Joleon Lescott to the club.
Not surprising - as his brother (or cousin?) Aaron played for us
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A former Villa scout ,played a few times for Wolves and whose son had played for Villa at U21 level,told me that he had recommended a young Joleon Lescott to the club.
Not surprising - as his brother (or cousin?) Aaron played for us
His older brother Aaron never broke through either, and that may have influenced young Joleon to go somewhere shit first, like Wolves.
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Joleon was close to joining us in the summer of 2005 0r 2006.
But we phucked about and Everton nipped in.
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There is something very likeable about Sturridge, even playing for completely unlikeable teams. Good luck to him.
Agreed.
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There is something very likeable about Sturridge, even playing for completely unlikeable teams. Good luck to him.
Agreed.
I think it's because he comes across as quite grounded and appreciative of what he's got.
Compare and contrast with Ashley "nearly crashed my car" Cole.
Also seems like a generally decent bloke.
Compare and contrast with John "arrogant arsehole" Terry.
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Dean Sturridge Junior scoring for our U13s.
http://instagram.com/p/t5EulFnNXZ/?modal=true
Let's hope that this Sturridge doesn't get away :)
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I know Daniel Sturridge's uncle Dave very well. He has always told me Daniel was more interested in playing football as a youngster than actively following any team. Through Dave I have also met Daniel's uncle Derek who is a teacher and Dean who played for Derby, Leicester and Wolves. The other two brothers are Simon who played for Small Heath and Daniel's dad who had a spell at Small Heath as a youngster. The Sturridge brothers also have a sister who is a head teacher who has won awards for turning round problem schools. They are quite a small family but Daniel and his dad seem to be bigger built than the others.
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Dean Sturridge Junior scoring for our U13s.
http://instagram.com/p/t5EulFnNXZ/?modal=true
Let's hope that this Sturridge doesn't get away :)
I regularly watch the U-13s. He is pretty good for his age, but he is not the best there.
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Which player was it who blanked Doug at the press conference when Doug wanted to shake hands?
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Which player was it who blanked Doug at the press conference when Doug wanted to shake hands?
Wasn't it Baros and it was more of a not realising who it was than a blanking.
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Dean, Derek, Dave and Daniel? Fuck sake, imagine calling that lot in for the big family dinner at Chrstmas.
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Is this from a different planet and different gravitational pull to ours?
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(http://www.sott.net/image/s1/34503/full/aliens.jpg)
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Those are the ones that got away. Not before they brainwashed Randy into signing TSM.
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Looks like it was taken on a mobile phone from quite a distance!
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That keeper should be ashamed of himself. I hope there were no treats for him in the car on the way home.