trigger the blue
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You forgot Collina!
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You forgot Collina!
I knew that the baseballer Bob Hall would be the death of us.
no one mentioning joe royal being forced to leave the club he loves by johnson? we've had some dips over the years but thats the big turning point i feel for my generation of blues (i was 13 when he went). we never got it back for years but by then we'd fell so far behind.
and collina the useless cnut.
and collina the useless cnut.
The Equaliser
Player Valuation: £50m
This. Specifically the then chairman Carter not making HK an offer to stay that he couldn't refuse. (And I don't mean the Godfather type!). At least then we might have had some continuity until the European ban ended, instead of going severely backwards from which we have never recovered.
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Eloquent, to the point and polite. +Rep for you sir.
linglong
Player Valuation: £25m
Yup it staggered me back then and depresses me now bad leadership follow bad leadership but to let Howard go at the height of his powers was beyond stupid little wonder the club never recovered
linglong
Player Valuation: £25m
Almost 20 years ago, a group of chairmen met with a questionable chap from Australia and decided it would be in the best interests of the national game to do this:
That was the turning point. Not just for us. But for the Norwiches, the Sheffields, the Forests. That was when a monopoly was established and no team would ever be able to reach the top through good management and old fashioned grit, only greater and greater amounts of money. I'm not pretending we weren't the "mersey millionaires" at one time. But from that moment on, only successive increases of unprecedented sums would be enough.
Another very valid point but lets be fair we had our fat fingers in the muff at the premierships inception mainly becuase w ethought,mistakenly,we where a club with clout to match the (soon to be) big guns.
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The development of Old Trafford
The Golden Generation
Not updating Goodison
Not having more faith in the youth we developed
Letting Johnson in
Very poor signings by either very poor managers or very tired and angst ridden manager.
A plethora of missed sponsorship deals.
The Golden Generation
Not updating Goodison
Not having more faith in the youth we developed
Letting Johnson in
Very poor signings by either very poor managers or very tired and angst ridden manager.
A plethora of missed sponsorship deals.
The English clubs' European ban that led to the exudus: Howard Kendal, Gary Stevens, Trevor Steven et al who wanted to manage/play in Europe. I couldn't believe the insensitivity of that RS tw*t on talkSPORT this morning who said if it wasn't for the ban that lot would have been Euro champs more times than they have been!
On second thoughts I can believe the insenitivity. No sense no feeling.
Yes, I forgot about that!
Kurt.
Player Valuation: £100m
The Ban, full stop. We were Boss in the eighties, the players loved playing here and they loved the fans too which was reciprocated and appreciated by the players, any player who didn't play for us at that time most definately wanted to...apart from the RS..... the an hit us hard as our best players, understandably, wanted to play in Europe and at the time they were considered the best as they played for Everton,,,who were the best team. Had the Ban not happened we would have gone on and maybe,, not saying deffo, but maybe would have won the european cup ( when it was still a cup for champions only ) , success would have bred success and we would have been THE attraction for all the top players and it would have all followed on from there,,,,, so definately the Ban destroyed us as a dominant force in both foreign and domestic football.
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chris_b
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People say we didnt spend when we got to cl but thats when we bought neville, davies and beattie. Plus we didnt have the money- that comes from group stages. If wed beaten villareal we would have had more to spend on top players. For me the european ban hit us hardest and gained man utd the most as they were nowhere but won cup when they could qualify again
Summerskin
Player Valuation: £35m
Two modern howlers:
Getting into the Champions League and deciding it was time to buy Per Kroldrup, Simon Davies and Andy Van Der Meyde.
The FA Cup Final, had we won it would Lescott have stayed? Regardless of how much we got for him (which was again spent badly) it took us a long time to get over him.
Getting into the Champions League and deciding it was time to buy Per Kroldrup, Simon Davies and Andy Van Der Meyde.
The FA Cup Final, had we won it would Lescott have stayed? Regardless of how much we got for him (which was again spent badly) it took us a long time to get over him.
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