saint si Posted 28 July, 2010 Share Posted 28 July, 2010 and a Portugese striker who was even in the crowd when we lost 3-1 away at Wimbledon in 96 live on Sky but after seeing that perfomance i think he changed his mind lol Paulo Alves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 28 July, 2010 Share Posted 28 July, 2010 I swear we were linked with Julio Arca too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Chalet Posted 28 July, 2010 Share Posted 28 July, 2010 Didn't one of the takeover fantasists last year have Henrik Laarson as their Marquee signing? Edit : IIRC it was Tommac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Chuckle Posted 28 July, 2010 Share Posted 28 July, 2010 Paulo Alves Well remembered:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 28 July, 2010 Share Posted 28 July, 2010 Ronnie Johnsen (sp?) played for us against Chievo Verona in a friendly before the 04/05 season. Lets face it, he couldn't have done a worse job then Andreas Jakobsen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamKimish Posted 28 July, 2010 Share Posted 28 July, 2010 Here's the story behind the Adebayor signing. Wasn't a refusal by Lowe, rather a refused work permit. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/archive/2003/08/05/Hampshire+Archive/5589288.Lowe_hits_out_after_fresh_work_permit_woe/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott_saints Posted 28 July, 2010 Share Posted 28 July, 2010 Who's the defender we ad on trial and didn't sign, and alpine nearly cried that we weren't signing him at the time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 28 July, 2010 Share Posted 28 July, 2010 Who's the defender we ad on trial and didn't sign, and alpine nearly cried that we weren't signing him at the time? The Hungarian that went to Bristol City who was average at best? Tamas Vasko? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doggface Posted 28 July, 2010 Share Posted 28 July, 2010 Great thread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott_saints Posted 28 July, 2010 Share Posted 28 July, 2010 The Hungarian that went to Bristol City who was average at best? Tamas Vasko? Certainly rings a bell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Chuckle Posted 28 July, 2010 Share Posted 28 July, 2010 Didn't we try and sign this guy but he wanted us to pay his wives Solicitors wage as well? Seem to remember him playing against Chelsea in the Cup Winners Cup in 1997 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjørn_Johansen Michael Duberry as well http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11700_2183734,00.html And also remember we were linked with a 3.5 million move for Vialli from Chelsea when Souness was our manager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LA77 Posted 28 July, 2010 Share Posted 28 July, 2010 I swear we were linked with Van Bommel a few years ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Man Do Posted 28 July, 2010 Share Posted 28 July, 2010 David Platt as player manager after Souness quit, also same rumour concerning Gianluca Vialli! Has anyone mentioned Rosicky? just before he moved for 25 million or something like that to a german team! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott_saints Posted 28 July, 2010 Share Posted 28 July, 2010 Don't think we were ever linked with him, but I always used to get p1ssed off with loads of people every summer saying we should sign Lee Trundle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpturner Posted 28 July, 2010 Share Posted 28 July, 2010 Don't think we were ever linked with him, but I always used to get p1ssed off with loads of people every summer saying we should sign Lee Trundle.Every Summer? Surely not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Cool Posted 28 July, 2010 Share Posted 28 July, 2010 A few years back we were reportedly about to sign an Argentinian striker called Mario Turdo. If we'd got him perhaps we could've signed Rafael Scheidt and Dan ****tu to keep him company :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 28 July, 2010 Author Share Posted 28 July, 2010 Don't think we were ever linked with him, but I always used to get p1ssed off with loads of people every summer saying we should sign Lee Trundle. Ever since relegation from the PL, i thought i was the only one getting p1ssed off with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelman Posted 28 July, 2010 Share Posted 28 July, 2010 not quite a signing, but still find the Paul Allen buying us quite amusing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_stevo Posted 28 July, 2010 Share Posted 28 July, 2010 I'm sure we had a deal in place to sign Tore Andre Flo from Brann but he didn't want to leave until they were out of Europe....then Chelsea nipped in and got him ahead of us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint dyer Posted 28 July, 2010 Share Posted 28 July, 2010 George weahs cousin......oh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSAINT Posted 28 July, 2010 Share Posted 28 July, 2010 This is going back sometime....... Igor Korneev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpturner Posted 28 July, 2010 Share Posted 28 July, 2010 I'm sure we had a deal in place to sign Tore Andre Flo from Brann but he didn't want to leave until they were out of Europe....then Chelsea nipped in and got him ahead of usYus: http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?24103-Funniest-Rumours-of-summer-signings-from-days-gone-by&p=793093#post793093 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_stevo Posted 28 July, 2010 Share Posted 28 July, 2010 didnt read all of page 1..... FAIL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danish Saint Posted 28 July, 2010 Share Posted 28 July, 2010 I remember the hype for David Wetherall, after Monkou left. He went to Bradford and we got Dean Richards instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pimpin4rizeal Posted 28 July, 2010 Share Posted 28 July, 2010 i remember being heavily linked with mido when he was at marseille Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentley Posted 29 July, 2010 Share Posted 29 July, 2010 I think Eboue was also linked but someone at the club didn't like his attitude. Mido was reportedly close to signing too at one point. Oh, and nobody has mentioned Paul Allen. How could no-one appreciate Eboue's attitude? Apparently learned Korean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Johnson Posted 29 July, 2010 Share Posted 29 July, 2010 I seem to remember one of our scouts mentioning that he spotted javier saviola at a very young age but they couldnt get a work permit... read it in the echo I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwig Posted 29 July, 2010 Share Posted 29 July, 2010 i remember being heavily linked with mido when he was at marseille Pretty sure it was when he was at Roma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 29 July, 2010 Share Posted 29 July, 2010 This one was true as well, Drogba before he went to Marseille, for £3m apparantly, malouda was also linked at the same time, also in Strachans autobiography as is the story he wanted to sign Saha and Malbranque from Fulham for £11m but Lowe said he didn't want to make our competitors financially stronger and us financially weaker so wouldn't do the deal. I also heard that RL didn't like Drogba, because he had ..an attitude. Thank goodness for that , I mean ..whoever would want to sign a goalscorer ..with an attitude ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 29 July, 2010 Share Posted 29 July, 2010 i remember being heavily linked with mido when he was at marseille ....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 29 July, 2010 Share Posted 29 July, 2010 Kevin Keegan------don't know who made that one up :rolleyes: yes, I remember that one too, Ray Wheeler in our office told us all that Keegan had signed for Saints...and no-one believed him ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulwantsapint Posted 29 July, 2010 Share Posted 29 July, 2010 Think either Hoddle or WGS tried to sign Jari Litmanen before he went to liverpool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denzil Posted 29 July, 2010 Share Posted 29 July, 2010 I remember Meridian talking about us signing Lineker circa 1993. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted 29 July, 2010 Share Posted 29 July, 2010 Jermaine Defoe from West Ham, Darren Bent and Matt Richards from Ipswich. Kris Commons every transfer window for about 3 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostBoys Posted 29 July, 2010 Share Posted 29 July, 2010 oliver beirhoff rumour always made me smile, i remember the daily echo getting carried away with full back page 'exclusive' I followed his mercedes down Britannia Road at the time - well it was definately a mercedes and it had german plates - so it must have been him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxstone Posted 29 July, 2010 Share Posted 29 July, 2010 Who's the defender we ad on trial and didn't sign, and alpine nearly cried that we weren't signing him at the time? Not Vasko as watching him against Eastleigh he clearly was nothing special. It was the Dutchman Knol who played a friendly against Woking and despite looking decent, and also that idiot George was clearly averse to signing defenders at the time, both Alps and I were pretty ****ed off that we passed on him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Chuckle Posted 29 July, 2010 Share Posted 29 July, 2010 Weren't we interested in Forlan in the summer of 2001? But Man Utd came in for him so Forlans agent recommended Delgado instead? Remember being linked with Gary Breen when Strachan was here. Joey Beauchamp we were always linked with and had it not been for a back injury we'd have signed him and not Marsden! Alun Armstrong a player linked for ages and went to Boro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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