Players that we failed to sign ….. and we dodged a bullet.

[Unabomber]

2 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

Veretout. Pretty much a mainstay for Roma 

Who is that striker you used to always bang on about us signing? jay emanuel Thomas or something? 

Edited 25 June 2022 by Unabomber

[Leicesterpool]

2 hours ago, Sampson said:

I'd say Martin O'Neill by the same line of thought.

 

Was linked with us pretty heavily after Pearson left but we got Ranieri in instead. Again, it wasn't the same MON from the 90s and the game had left him behind by that point, likely would've only tarnished his reputation here.

Think Top was quite keen to bring Martin back for years he tried to get him in 2011 to replace Sven, but Martin didn't fancy it. Tried again as you mentioned in 2015 to replace Pearson, but he was involved with the Republic of Ireland job. 

[cropstonfox]

41 minutes ago, Leicesterpool said:

Think Top was quite keen to bring Martin back for years he tried to get him in 2011 to replace Sven, but Martin didn't fancy it. Tried again as you mentioned in 2015 to replace Pearson, but he was involved with the Republic of Ireland job. 

Martin would have won the league quicker and with more points than Ranieri.Never a massive fan of him myself though. 

[Sampson]

25 minutes ago, cropstonfox said:

Martin would have won the league quicker and with more points than Ranieri.Never a massive fan of him myself though. 

O'Neill was infamous at Sunderland for being about the only manager in the PL who didn't use the data technology that was making its name at the time (sportzone?) He was a great motivator and man manager of old school type players, but he never believed in sports science or stats or data analysis or that kind of thing and in fact actively stood against it.

I don't think he'd have won the league, in fact I's worry that he probably would've torn apart all the sports science and data analysis infrastructure Pearson had put in place, it's ultimately why the game ended up leaving O'Neill behind I think.

Edited 25 June 2022 by Sampson

[cropstonfox]

Ranieri was also very old school and sacked the sports psychologist very early.

This was about getting the best out of a bunch of journeymen players at a opportunist period.

Along with world class of Vardy , Mahrrz and Kante.

[Sampson]

8 minutes ago, cropstonfox said:

Ranieri was also very old school and sacked the sports psychologist very early.

This was about getting the best out of a bunch of journeymen players at a opportunist period.

Along with world class of Vardy , Mahrrz and Kante.

He left our sports science team alone though and left the clubs dietry and training regimes alone too, at least in 2015-16. 

I don't feel like O'Neill was like that, at all, he had a very fixed idea of how things should be and was very much my way or the highway,

All theoretical of course, but I extremely highly doubt we would've got more than 81pts under O'Neill that season.

Edited 25 June 2022 by Sampson

[Bert]

6 hours ago, shen said:

Aranguiz? Who went to Leverkusen?

Ah, that’s the one. 

[Lambert09]

another foxestalk legend… Jimmy Kebe 

 

I remember we were all frothing that we had signed him on deadline day (i think it was under sven) for around 5m 

 

if reading had got us with him and Mills i would have never forgiven them 

 

Although i’m not sure the bullet was dodged as we ended up signing beckford instead 

Edited 25 June 2022 by Lambert09

[Sampson]

6 minutes ago, Lambert09 said:

another foxestalk legend… Jimmy Kebe 

 

I remember we were all frothing that we had signed him on deadline day (i think it was under sven) for around 5m 

 

if reading had got us with him and Mills i would have never forgiven them 

 

Although i’m not sure the bullet was dodged as we ended up signing beckford instead 

Didn’t Reading end up winning the Chsmpionship that season with Kebe being one of their star players though?

 

I don’t think that was a bullet dodged, Kebe was a quality player at Championship level. Just never really made the step up

Edited 25 June 2022 by Sampson

[blockheadder]

Johan Cruyff. Would've been over-aged and overpaid, and left us like Mancini.

[FLAN]

6 hours ago, SystonFox said:

Nobody is allowed to talk about it. Guilty 

Lad I work with supports Everton. Apparently he got involved with a girl who was much younger than she said. It then moved onto blackmail and it was him who went to the police “allegedly”

[FLAN]

Anyone said Adrien Silva?

[Heskey2011]

12 hours ago, Matt_Lcfc said:

Alireza Jahanbaksh

The Israeli Messi 

[Heskey2011]

4 hours ago, Line-X said:

Felipe Anderson.

He's been pretty good for Lazio this season 

[Charl91]

5 hours ago, Unabomber said:

Who is that striker you used to always bang on about us signing? jay emanuel Thomas or something? 

It's pronounced "Lee Cattermole". 

[FOXYTALK]

Patrick Roberts 

[Plastik Man]

6 hours ago, Heskey2011 said:

The Israeli Messi 

Iranian!

[sylofox]

On 25/06/2022 at 07:00, foxfanazer said:

That fench guy that ended up going to Villa, I forget his name now but I think it was either him or Kante we was gonna sign. Could've been a different story

Did we dodge a bullet?

 

Or did he miss out on a premier league title 😂😂😂😂😂

[sylofox]

8 hours ago, FLAN said:

Anyone said Adrien Silva?

NO because we signed him.

 

Read the title? Failed to sign is the clue.

[Silebyfox_89]

Nicky Maynard

[SpacedX]

8 hours ago, Heskey2011 said:

He's been pretty good for Lazio this season 

Yeah, I realise that. Six goals and eight assists, but was very disappointing in his second season at the Hammers, from memory, sustained a back injury and failed to make an impact at Porto. It likely wouldn't have been a great signing here either and he certainly wouldn't have been with us now. 

[foxfanazer]

43 minutes ago, sylofox said:

Did we dodge a bullet?

 

Or did he miss out on a premier league title 😂😂😂😂😂

We only dodged a bullet if it was a choice between him and Kante

[HybridFox]

16 hours ago, The Horse's Mouth said:

Deeney might be the biggest one, weren't we wanting him for 30 million when we were league champions 

The fee was outrageous but still think he would have been a good signing at the time. We were crying out for an old-fashioned bully up front and I think he would have linked up well with Vardy

Edited 26 June 2022 by TK95

[Durnerz]

According to Danny Mills we were meant to sign him when he was at Leeds. Good job we didn't, he's a right knob.

[FLAN]

3 hours ago, sylofox said:

NO because we signed him.

 

Read the title? Failed to sign is the clue.

No need to cry. It was a joke