Superstars who almost become a Villa Player

[The Left Side]

Teddy Sherringham was linked too wasn't he?  But we ended up with Cascarino.

Dennis Bergkamp is one of those names, apparently he just hated the idea of living in Birmingham. 

I was convinced we were going to get him, or, more to the point, I'd convinced myself. 

That was some Doug-onomics, the Millwall chairman offered us the cheaper Cascarino instead of the better player Sheringham and the rest is history!

[KevinGage]

I remember Kirsty Gallagher announcing about 12/13 years back that we'd had a bid accepted for Pedrag Mijatovic. Read in the Holy Trinity a few years after that "somebody" at Villa Park had pulled the plug on the deal. Wasn't Gregory interested in Hakan Sukur for a while? I remember a tenuous link once to Carlos Roa, the keeper who saved David Batty's penalty.Which would have been great cos he was crazy mental! Once retired cos he thought the world was going to end when the millenium arrived

For us it pretty much did.  Give or take five months.

[Classof13]

Didn't Gregory try to sign Gazza at some point? Think I'm right.