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

[Matt_Lcfc]

Alireza Jahanbaksh

[Durnerz]

29 minutes ago, Footballwipe said:

Just researched the date of this potential deal, looks like late October 1999. Did we not sign Darren Eadie for £3m quite soon after this? Was it instead of Booth (makes sense spending all that money tbh)

 

Mad that it still didn't really work out for us and Eadie was perennially injured as well.

I think we also were after John Hartson around the same time. I was gutted Eadie got injured as he looked decent before.

[fox_up_north]

Weren't we in for Michael Keane as well? 

[boots60]

Johan Cruyff, he was shit for Levante.

 

Lee Chapman, he never did buy a house in Oadby.

[Corky]

3 hours ago, CityArt said:

Jason McAteer 😂

How livid must he have been to be an ageing, well past it player and then rejected by Micky Adams?

[Sampson]

52 minutes ago, fox_up_north said:

Weren't we in for Michael Keane as well? 

He had a decent career though. Don’t think he is as good as Evans, Morgan or Huth, but he wouldn’t have been a bad signing.

 

I always forget he played on loan for us in the Championship.

[Sly]

22 minutes ago, Sampson said:

He had a decent career though. Don’t think he is as good as Evans, Morgan or Huth, but he wouldn’t have been a bad signing.

 

I always forget he played on loan for us in the Championship.

Yes, Ben Mee as well

[Dan]

For ages it was Vestergaard  

[Guest StevieLynex]

Harry Kane
David Beckham

William Carvalho

[AmarteyAndChill]

Gylfi Sigurdsson - offered Swansea nearly £40m if I remember?

[sm1]

4 hours ago, Ginger_Filbert said:

Trincao. The offer we made had a huge mandatory fee. 

Didn't we offer 40M for him. If true, really did dodge a bullet. 

[wokinghamfox]

That chap who went to Brighton. Sharabang or whatever his name is

[Bert]

What about the South American lad we were relentlessly pursuing? Cannot remember his name for the life of me. But he turned us down and went elsewhere ended up with a long term injury. It was all but done and dusted wasn’t it. 

[shen]

1 minute ago, Bert said:

What about the South American lad we were relentlessly pursuing? Cannot remember his name for the life of me. But he turned us down and went elsewhere ended up with a long term injury. It was all but done and dusted wasn’t it. 

Aranguiz? Who went to Leverkusen?

[shen]

7 hours ago, Lineker's Left Foot said:

I remember Pearson wanting Andy Delort when we went up - he even went on loan to Wigan too and was awful.

 

Think Luciano Vietto was possibly a bullet dodged too.

His record at Montpellier was alright and he just had a fine season at Nice

 

[glebe_sydneyfox]

Potato

[Stadt]

A lot of these players named are alright, hardly dodged bullets 

Edited 25 June 2022 by Stadt

[Sly]

48 minutes ago, Stadt said:

A lot of these players named are alright, hardly dodged bullets 

I think Sigurddsson is the one. It still hasn’t fully come out about him. 

[The Horse's Mouth]

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

[SystonFox]

19 minutes ago, Sly said:

I think Sigurddsson is the one. It still hasn’t fully come out about him. 

Nobody is allowed to talk about it. Guilty 

[Bucks fox]

5 hours ago, boots60 said:

Johan Cruyff, he was shit for Levante.

 

Lee Chapman, he never did buy a house in Oadby.

I can still remember the back page of the Mercury

[Leicesterpool]

Emile Heskey in 2011, According Emile he was about ready to leave Villa after Houllier left. Spoke to Sven, basically verbally agreed to join. Then McLeish was announced as Villa manager and asked Heskey to stay. Lets just say the Heskey 2011 was not the same Heskey we had of the 1990's. I believe the following summer of 2012 after being released by Villa he did come down to train with Leicester, but I'm not sure if Pearson was ever interested in singing him. 

Edited 25 June 2022 by Leicesterpool

[Sampson]

10 minutes ago, Leicesterpool said:

Emile Heskey in 2011, According Emile he was about ready to leave Villa after Houllier left. Spoke to Sven, basically verbally agreed to join. Then McLeish was announced as Villa manager and asked Heskey to stay. Lets just say the Heskey 2011 was not the same Heskey we had of the 1990's. I believe the following summer of 2012 after being released by Villa he did come down to train with Leicester, but I'm not sure if Pearson was ever interested in singing him. 

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.

Edited 25 June 2022 by Sampson

[SpacedX]

Felipe Anderson.

[Guest Col city fan]

13 hours ago, 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

Veretout. Pretty much a mainstay for Roma