HarvSFC Posted 5 July, 2020 Share Posted 5 July, 2020 That Brighton player who was pretty much announced a Saints singing too - Inigo Calderon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nordic Saint Posted 5 July, 2020 Share Posted 5 July, 2020 1 hour ago, HarvSFC said: That Brighton player who was pretty much announced a Saints singing too - Inigo Calderon. He was in the Brighton team that beat us to the League One title in 2011. He was in the PFA League One Team of the Year that year so, he could well have been the difference between us and them as Brighton only finished 3 points ahead of us. If we'd signed him, he'd have replaced Danny Butterfield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenilworthy Posted 5 July, 2020 Share Posted 5 July, 2020 2 hours ago, Nordic Saint said: We tried to sign Coutinho but he turned us down in favour of Liverpool. He had played for Pochettino at Espanyol. The situation was similar with Maddison and Leicester. So, we can't blame the club for not trying. They were just two of the many that got away because wealthier and more successful clubs wanted them too. Going back to the 1980s, McMenemy tried hard to sign Trevor Francis. If he had succeeded, we probably would have done the double in 1984 so that was the one that hurt us the most. In the late 70s, he also tried to sign Colin Todd. He was one of the few other big names to get away from McMenemy, who was brilliant at persuading top players, like Keegan, Shilton, Ball and Osgood, to come here. We were certainly linked with Trevor Francis in 81/82 and Ball, Channon and Keegan were keen on the idea as we were top of the table and petitioned Lawrie to make it happen as they felt he could make the difference in winning the league. Lawrie himself was not quite so keen because Francis would have cost a million and he always said we would not go the way of Chelsea (then impoverished) in signing players we could not afford. Francis could well have made the difference in winning something in 83/84. However that would have meant we would not have signed Frank Worthington, who did not score many but was integral to the way we played that season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenilworthy Posted 5 July, 2020 Share Posted 5 July, 2020 3 hours ago, Nordic Saint said: We tried to sign Coutinho but he turned us down in favour of Liverpool. He had played for Pochettino at Espanyol. The situation was similar with Maddison and Leicester. So, we can't blame the club for not trying. They were just two of the many that got away because wealthier and more successful clubs wanted them too. Going back to the 1980s, McMenemy tried hard to sign Trevor Francis. If he had succeeded, we probably would have done the double in 1984 so that was the one that hurt us the most. In the late 70s, he also tried to sign Colin Todd. He was one of the few other big names to get away from McMenemy, who was brilliant at persuading top players, like Keegan, Shilton, Ball and Osgood, to come here. We were certainly linked with Trevor Francis in 81/82 and Ball, Channon and Keegan were keen on the idea as we were top of the table and petitioned Lawrie to make it happen as they felt he could make the difference in winning the league. Lawrie himself was not quite so keen because Francis would have cost a million and he always said we would not go the way of Chelsea (then impoverished) in signing players we could not afford. Francis could well have made the difference in winning something in 83/84. However that would have meant we would not have signed Frank Worthington, who did not score many but was integral to the way we played that season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 5 July, 2020 Share Posted 5 July, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, Kenilworthy said: We were certainly linked with Trevor Francis in 81/82 and Ball, Channon and Keegan were keen on the idea as we were top of the table and petitioned Lawrie to make it happen as they felt he could make the difference in winning the league. Lawrie himself was not quite so keen because Francis would have cost a million and he always said we would not go the way of Chelsea (then impoverished) in signing players we could not afford. Francis could well have made the difference in winning something in 83/84. However that would have meant we would not have signed Frank Worthington, who did not score many but was integral to the way we played that season. Francis was a possibility whilst we were top of the league in early 1982, and might have made the difference that season never mind 1983/4. Story I read some years later was that Lawrie had agreed a deal in principle with the City manager John Bond, with either Graham Baker or Steve Williams going to City as part of the deal. The City chairman at the time Peter Swales pulled the plug on it though in fear of a fans revolt. As good a player as Francis was I wonder how he'd have slotted with Channon , Keegan and co. Edited 5 July, 2020 by Badger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 5 July, 2020 Share Posted 5 July, 2020 Tscheu La Ling is one that puzzles me from 1982. Had a trial scored twice in a friendly as a guest player but we didn't pursue it. Was a Dutch international at the time with Ajax and left there a few months later. Perhaps he didn't look the part in training, or possibly we were putting all our efforts in pursuing Trevor Francis but no idea why we didn't follow it up. Anyone shed any light on it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkeith Posted 5 July, 2020 Share Posted 5 July, 2020 Michael Antonio is an obvious one, Looked great for us, but Les Reed wouldn't pay 1/19th of a Carillo for him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lets B Avenue Posted 5 July, 2020 Share Posted 5 July, 2020 45 minutes ago, Badger said: Francis was a possibility whilst we were top of the league in early 1982, and might have made the difference that season never mind 1983/4. Story I read some years later was that Lawrie had agreed a deal in principle with the City manager John Bond, with either Graham Baker or Steve Williams going to City as part of the deal. The City chairman at the time Peter Swales pulled the plug on it though in fear of a fans revolt. As good a player as Francis was I wonder how he'd have slotted with Channon , Keegan and co. We needed him, as Moran had got himself injured in A Skate night club in January and missed the rest of the season. We only had Puckett in reserve and by the time we had lost the chance of winning the league, we got the legendary Keith Cassells in the Mark Wright deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGTL Posted 5 July, 2020 Share Posted 5 July, 2020 We lost out on Maddison because he didn’t want to be too far away from his Mummy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OttawaSaint Posted 5 July, 2020 Share Posted 5 July, 2020 On 04/07/2020 at 10:54, hypochondriac said: What happened to Taider? Plays for Montreal Impact. He’s really frustrating to watch too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OttawaSaint Posted 5 July, 2020 Share Posted 5 July, 2020 On 04/07/2020 at 07:43, Wade Garrett said: Real shame we didn’t buy Ronnie Ekelund after his loan. He was class. Yep and Eyal Berkovic too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wurzel Posted 6 July, 2020 Share Posted 6 July, 2020 On 05/07/2020 at 09:47, Nordic Saint said: We tried to sign Coutinho but he turned us down in favour of Liverpool. He had played for Pochettino at Espanyol. The situation was similar with Maddison and Leicester. So, we can't blame the club for not trying. They were just two of the many that got away because wealthier and more successful clubs wanted them too. Going back to the 1980s, McMenemy tried hard to sign Trevor Francis. If he had succeeded, we probably would have done the double in 1984 so that was the one that hurt us the most. In the late 70s, he also tried to sign Colin Todd. He was one of the few other big names to get away from McMenemy, who was brilliant at persuading top players, like Keegan, Shilton, Ball and Osgood, to come here. IIRC Colin Todd agreed to sign. It's only when he went home and told his wife the deal fell apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSAINT Posted 6 July, 2020 Share Posted 6 July, 2020 (edited) Don't know how close we were to signing him, but Victor Osimhen was mentioned a lot last summer. Not sure if he was an alternative to either Djenepo or Adams. He seems to be linked with all sorts of good clubs after a very good season with Lille. Edited 6 July, 2020 by SuperSAINT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Kucho Posted 6 July, 2020 Share Posted 6 July, 2020 If I remember rightly we tried to sign Steed Malbranque in the summer of 2004. Shame we missed out, always rated him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted 6 July, 2020 Share Posted 6 July, 2020 In recent years the names Vincent Aboubaker and Wylan Cyprien stand out. The latter would be a cracking signing, doing very well at Nice but probably out of our price range now, though Newcastle got St Maximin for £16 million last summer from them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 7 July, 2020 Share Posted 7 July, 2020 21 hours ago, SNSUN said: In recent years the names Vincent Aboubaker and Wylan Cyprien stand out. The latter would be a cracking signing, doing very well at Nice but probably out of our price range now, though Newcastle got St Maximin for £16 million last summer from them... Were we ever in for either of them, or were they just names from the mongboard sweepstake one summer ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Saint Posted 7 July, 2020 Share Posted 7 July, 2020 23 hours ago, Dr. Kucho said: If I remember rightly we tried to sign Steed Malbranque in the summer of 2004. Shame we missed out, always rated him. Strachan quit when we didn't support him in signing Malbranque and Saha iirc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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