The ones that got away

[urban fox]

The transfer window silly season is now over again until the summer and it was pretty quiet apart from several outgoings.

The lack of incomings got me to thinking about some of the might have beens of the past. Not just silly newspaper talk but those that were genuine potential signings that didn't come off

 

Top of the list:  Johan Cruyff.  February 1981 and I was at uni in Aberdeen of all places when I walked into a newsagents shop and heard the radio declaring that he had agreed to sign for Leicester.  I had to ask the shopkeeper if I had heard it right. I was gobsmacked. Unfortunately the deal collapsed at the eleventh hour when a better deal was offered by Spanish side Levante (including a percentage of gate receipts apparently)

 

John Toshak. 1974 and a £160,000 fee is agreed with Liverpool for the striker only for him to fail his medical. he returns to Liverpool and promptly starts knocking them in for fun, including scoring against us in the FA cup semi final.

[Tuna]

Nicky Maynard.

[420Hashish]

Weren't Leicester City linked with Robert Lewandewski at some point?

[urban fox]

Apparently so. According to the rumours he was due in England for talks but the volcanic eruption in Iceland had grounded all the flights so it never happened.

[IsItMuzzy]

1 minute ago, urban fox said:

Apparently so. According to the rumours he was due in England for talks but the volcanic eruption in Iceland had grounded all the flights so it never happened.

Wasn't he in talks with Blackburn? Never heard him linked with us.

[urban fox]

I forgot to mention David Beckham.  Word has it that he was keen to return to England and link up with Sven. The new (at that time) owner were willing to stump up the £200k per week wages but the popular belief was that the Mrs didnt fancy swapping sunset boulevard for gallowtree gate

[urban fox]

Just now, IsItMuzzy said:

Wasn't he in talks with Blackburn? Never heard him linked with us.

He was due to attend the Blackburn vs West ham game and scheduled for talks with both Blackburn and ourselves

[MPH]

35 minutes ago, DrezZone said:

Weren't Leicester City linked with Robert Lewandewski at some point?

yes. as a young 18 year old. But we didn’t want to pay the 1.2 million fee.

[MPH]

3 minutes ago, urban fox said:

I forgot to mention David Beckham.  Word has it that he was keen to return to England and link up with Sven. The new (at that time) owner were willing to stump up the £200k per week wages but the popular belief was that the Mrs didnt fancy swapping sunset boulevard for gallowtree gate

 

yes Sven did approach the beckhams about it and HER response was “Sven, can you really see me in Leicester?”

[Ian Nacho]

Harry Kane?

[1972 Fox]

Wasn't Davor Suker another one who slipped through the net as we didn't want to stump up the required fee?

[Ian Nacho]

Slimani in a sense. Linked with him and could have got him 2-3 years prior for around £7m.

[Lestoh]

I genuinely can’t think of any in the past few years. As far as I can remember everyone we’ve been genuinely linked with recently has turned out bang average at best. Only one I can think is James McArthur, but he’s not exactly a world beater

[Guy]

41 minutes ago, Lestoh said:

I genuinely can’t think of any in the past few years. As far as I can remember everyone we’ve been genuinely linked with recently has turned out bang average at best. Only one I can think is James McArthur, but he’s not exactly a world beater

I thought he was a twat re that overreaction when Pearson was playfully strangling him on the floor on the sidelines at King Power after his fall - which seemed to cause a media frenzy for reasons entirely unknown!

[Samilktray]

Still haven’t forgiven this football club for not pulling off the Edgar Davids deal. 

[Buzzell]

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.

[urban.spaceman]

James Pearson. 

[dayday]

Gary Pallister

[jonthefox]

6 hours ago, Blue Fox 72 said:

Wasn't Davor Suker another one who slipped through the net as we didn't want to stump up the required fee?

Yep. Brian little thought £800 k was too excessive ?

[kingcarr21]

Mame Biram Diouf

 

Still devastated to this day

[Finnegan]

Ngolo got away 

[Deeg67]

Paco Alcacer.

[Langston]

Didn't one of Nige's staff admit recently that we were very near pulling off a deal for Miroslav Klose? 

Can't remember what season they were referring to though, could have been 13/14 or 14/15.

[Babylon]

7 minutes ago, Langston said:

Didn't one of Nige's staff admit recently that we were very near pulling off a deal for Miroslav Klose? 

Can't remember what season they were referring to though, could have been 13/14 or 14/15.

2011 before he moved to Lazio.

[Gav_LCFC14]

Ousmane Dembele was very close, he admitted to having a call with Claudio who really wanted him,  he chose to go to Dortmund instead. Went to Barca the following year for £120m.