Brum Mail reckon Leeds are preparing a £7m double swoop for McCormack and Elphick.
Quote from: olaftab on January 23, 2018, 10:12:21 AMQuote from: Holte L2 on January 23, 2018, 08:49:47 AMQuote from: dave.woodhall on January 23, 2018, 12:12:52 AMSigning Cascarino when we were in form is one of the great urban myths of Aston Villa. The reality is that we'd lost three of our previous four league games and hadn't scored in any of them. I wonder what would have happened if we'd signed Sheringham instead.Sheringham at that age was not all that good. He developed into a clever player a couple of years later. I don’t think he would have helped SGT but could have been great for BFR’s title chase. Alas, our recent history is full of regrets.I knew little about either, but when we signed Cascarino a Millwall supporting friend called and said: You idiots, you've signed the wrong one! I might have been rude back.
Quote from: Holte L2 on January 23, 2018, 08:49:47 AMQuote from: dave.woodhall on January 23, 2018, 12:12:52 AMSigning Cascarino when we were in form is one of the great urban myths of Aston Villa. The reality is that we'd lost three of our previous four league games and hadn't scored in any of them. I wonder what would have happened if we'd signed Sheringham instead.Sheringham at that age was not all that good. He developed into a clever player a couple of years later. I don’t think he would have helped SGT but could have been great for BFR’s title chase. Alas, our recent history is full of regrets.
Quote from: dave.woodhall on January 23, 2018, 12:12:52 AMSigning Cascarino when we were in form is one of the great urban myths of Aston Villa. The reality is that we'd lost three of our previous four league games and hadn't scored in any of them. I wonder what would have happened if we'd signed Sheringham instead.
Signing Cascarino when we were in form is one of the great urban myths of Aston Villa. The reality is that we'd lost three of our previous four league games and hadn't scored in any of them.
In fairness, Cascarino had looked the real deal, and had scored more than Sheringham during the season when we bought him. People seem to think the signing was always going to end in disaster, but that seems like revisionism to me. I do wonder, as well, whether things might have gone differently if Shilton hadn't produced that miracle save to deny him a debut goal. Still one of my favourite away days, there seemed to be millions of us there to the nine-year-old me.
Cascarino was on the fantasy football show on SKY a while back and was telling a story about when he first joined Villa. He said all the players kept calling him 'Teddy', so after a few days of it he asked Paul McGrath why. Apparently McGrath turned round to him and said "it's because they think we've signed the wrong player".
Quote from: cdbullyweefan on January 23, 2018, 12:18:58 PMIn fairness, Cascarino had looked the real deal, and had scored more than Sheringham during the season when we bought him. People seem to think the signing was always going to end in disaster, but that seems like revisionism to me. I do wonder, as well, whether things might have gone differently if Shilton hadn't produced that miracle save to deny him a debut goal. Still one of my favourite away days, there seemed to be millions of us there to the nine-year-old me.I was well happy when we signed him, it is just like many of the signings I am chuffed with it didn't seem to work for us. Collymore, Baros, Whittingham, Curcic, Ginola, Hadji, McCormack were all players I was excited about. Even Micah Richards and Lescott! Most of our better players seem to be the ones unheralded at the time. Yorke, Platt etc.If we can take £7m off Leeds for Elphick and McCormack we should do so. Especially if we have the Man Utd defender coming in to replace Elphick, and Ulloa coming in to replace McCormack.
I’d leave McCormack where he is until the summer. We don’t want him scoring goals for a promotion rival during the run-in.