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[LukeJames]

Ok Juan Raiola 👌

[Risso]

£17m two years after we released him on a free 🙄

No we didn't.

Aaaaagh balls, I was way too young to remember the actual events and  just going off this website https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/savo-milosevic/transfers/spieler/7896

It was about £8m from memory.

[eamonn]

That's what Wiki says but I really don't recall us making such a profit on him. He wasn't exactly in demand at the time, Zaragoza being a fairly middling club. From what I recall it was more similar to what we paid, maybe a slight haircut, £3.5m or so.

[ldavfc4eva]

I’m sure Savo went for £4m, so a slight profit.

A much derided figure, but he got in to double figures in his first season and started us off with his wonder goal in the league cup final.

I liked him

[brian green]

He did not like us so much.

[Steve67]

It took him ages to get a goal and then scored three against Coventry I think.  He was a gamble but I think it paid off.  Wonder goal in the League Cup Final.

[Clampy]

From memory, we got our money back off him, Zaragoza sold him for £16m then he went somewhere else for big money. Lovely player once he'd got going and settled down. I was sitting with a Coventry fan in the Doug Ellis when he scored that hat-trick against them, which was nice.

[JuanMartinez]

You could argue Yorkie wouldn’t have had the seasons he had 95-97 without Big Savo.

[Percy McCarthy]

Always thought of him as one of those ‘worth the entrance fee’ type players. He could have bad/middling/quiet games, but there was always the possibility he could do something breathtaking. Yorke really blossomed when we signed Savo - no coincidence.

[Nev]

He had a good partnership with Yorke but that was banjoed by the arrival of Collymore.
There are plenty of ex Villa players who are ahead of Savo in the queue for derision.

[Risso]

From memory, we got our money back off him, Zaragoza sold him for £16m then he went somewhere else for big money. Lovely player once he'd got going and settled down. I was sitting with a Coventry fan in the Doug Ellis when he scored that hat-trick against them, which was nice.

He also got two away at Coventry a few weeks before didn't he? 

[Clampy]

From memory, we got our money back off him, Zaragoza sold him for £16m then he went somewhere else for big money. Lovely player once he'd got going and settled down. I was sitting with a Coventry fan in the Doug Ellis when he scored that hat-trick against them, which was nice.

He also got two away at Coventry a few weeks before didn't he? 

Possibly, but I can't remember them.

[LeeB]

I’m sure Savo went for £4m, so a slight profit.

A much derided figure, but he got in to double figures in his first season and started us off with his wonder goal in the league cup final.

I liked him

You’re correct, it was £4m. Then a year later it was £17m. Bloody same thing happened when we got rid of Crouch.

[Risso]

From memory, we got our money back off him, Zaragoza sold him for £16m then he went somewhere else for big money. Lovely player once he'd got going and settled down. I was sitting with a Coventry fan in the Doug Ellis when he scored that hat-trick against them, which was nice.

He also got two away at Coventry a few weeks before didn't he? 

Possibly, but I can't remember them.

Decent video. The Coventry away goals are the next two goals on there after his debut goal against Blackburn.  Has got the hat trick goals on as well.

[LeeB]

He was a lovely footballer as well which gets overlooked, he had a great touch and a wand of a left foot, could switch the play quickly to the rampaging full back on the other wing.