Zlatan Ibrahimovic to Saints

[Chez]

...well at least that was the aim back in 2002 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24038519

[Colinjb]

I believe Zlatan referenced this in his autobiography. He really wasn't interested in coming to us.

[Saint Martini]

I believe Zlatan referenced this in his autobiography. He really wasn't interested in coming to us.

 

You are correct. We were interested, he wasn't at all.

[jjsaint]

I'm sure we'd be interested in Messi coming...

[Glasgow_Saint]

woulda, coulda, shoulda

 

we would have walked this league......... if

 

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11700_2278049,00.html

[John Boy Saint]

woulda, coulda, shoulda

 

we would have walked this league......... if

 

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11700_2278049,00.html

 

Just about sums us back in those days, buying and trying to buy players for bobbins without realising that everyone else was moving on and spending their pennies even if it was piling up the debts by speculating. We just had a chairman out to prove that you could make money from football and thought that by doubling the capacity of the stadium then filling it weekly and running the team as it was at the Dell there would be a lot more cream to skim off.

WGS made a lot of ordinary footballers into an effective band of brothers, but he saw maintaining that level or even stepping up was impossible when the Chairman wouldn't spend money on players from fellow Prem teams as he didn't want to boost the coffers of competitors. Agustin Delgado although great in South America was a risk to bring here, Drogba most people with half a football brain could see he was a bit handy when he was a youngster, cough up £2.5m and seeing we were a selling club back then, flog him for twice as much 18months later when he was an established Premiership player.

 

Still all water under the bridge.