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[eamonn]

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.

Amazing to think Julian Joachim outlasted them all - not just at Villa (signed a year before Collymore) but generally as a footballer - the mad fecker is still playing now more than 20 years on!

[eamonn]

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.

Soccerbase says it was £3.5m so I was right 

[Risso]

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.

Soccerbase says it was £3.5m so I was right 

Yes, looks like you're right. I just checked the accounts back then and the sales of Savo and Fernando Nelson funded the purchase of Alan Thompson for £4.5m.

[Moonraker]

Great video on Savo. He knew how to score and also how to miss. Saw the "Ciro Citterio" advertising hoardings up at VP. Took a pair of trousers in to be altered before they closed. Hopefully should be ready by now.

[Damo70]

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

O'Leary's biggest mistake was binning Crouch and replacing him with Carlton Cole. I was at Crouch's Villa Park debut against Newcastle and they couldn't handle him. All four Newcastle defenders were booked for fouls against him. He also had a great game at Villa Park when we were chasing a second leg league cup semi final deficit against Bolton. There is a passage in Crouch's autobiography when he tells how Doug Ellis put him up in a  big posh hotel room to get him to sign for us. As soon as the ink was dry on the contract Doug shifted him somewhere else without room to swing a cat. SGT had to sort things out.

[Damo70]

Great video on Savo. He knew how to score and also how to miss. Saw the "Ciro Citterio" advertising hoardings up at VP. Took a pair of trousers in to be altered before they closed. Hopefully should be ready by now.

Didn't Savo play for and score for three different nations? Yugoslavia, Serbia & Montenegro and Serbia.

[Moonraker]

Great question to ask your mates in the pub Damo (16 days and counting)

[Chico Hamilton III]

Great video on Savo. He knew how to score and also how to miss. Saw the "Ciro Citterio" advertising hoardings up at VP. Took a pair of trousers in to be altered before they closed. Hopefully should be ready by now.

Didn't Savo play for and score for three different nations? Yugoslavia, Serbia & Montenegro and Serbia.

Isn’t that 4?

[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.

Soccerbase says it was £3.5m so I was right 

Soccerbase can fuck off, we got a profit on him, I can remember that clear as day.

[cdbearsfan]

Great video on Savo. He knew how to score and also how to miss. Saw the "Ciro Citterio" advertising hoardings up at VP. Took a pair of trousers in to be altered before they closed. Hopefully should be ready by now.

Didn't Savo play for and score for three different nations? Yugoslavia, Serbia & Montenegro and Serbia.

Yes. Even though he was from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[pauliewalnuts]

Great video on Savo. He knew how to score and also how to miss. Saw the "Ciro Citterio" advertising hoardings up at VP. Took a pair of trousers in to be altered before they closed. Hopefully should be ready by now.

Didn't Savo play for and score for three different nations? Yugoslavia, Serbia & Montenegro and Serbia.

Yes. Even though he was from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Ethnic Serb innit.

[chrisw1]

Savo missed some sitters but we were a far better team when he was playing.  I guess a lot who critisise him just remeber the misses and are maybe too young to appreciate what a good player he was at his best.  Shouldn't have sold him when we did.

[Martin Carruthers]

Did I dream it or did he used to do this thing where he'd control a bouncing ball with the back of his thigh, so it looked like he was going to sit on it? Vaguely remember a few of us attempting it with little success.

[Damo70]

Great video on Savo. He knew how to score and also how to miss. Saw the "Ciro Citterio" advertising hoardings up at VP. Took a pair of trousers in to be altered before they closed. Hopefully should be ready by now.

Didn't Savo play for and score for three different nations? Yugoslavia, Serbia & Montenegro and Serbia.

Isn’t that 4?

I might be wrong but I think Serbia & Montenegro were classed as one nation at one point.

[Damo70]

If I just heard correctly Bournemouth, who posted a financial deficit of £32 million in the last financial year have just posted a deficit of £60 million for this financial year.