Dodging bullets: Players Everton were heavily linked with that you were glad we never signed.

[COYBL25]

Martin Dahlin

Looked immense for Sweden and when Blackburn signed him he was turd

Sam Byram.

Is he getting a game at Hammers?

Or even still there?

On loan at Forest

 

[Jags]

Kyle Naughton, I was fuming at the time, but if we did get him, would Seamus have had the career he has had? I doubt it..

 

[Khalekan]

The lad from Tranmere.....Koumas.

We were linked with him every transfer window in the early years of the century.

 

[The Penalty Box Dancer]

Nathan Redmond
Steve Sidwell

 

[Toffe3m4n]

Demba Ba..cause he is dodgy as...

Still can't believe Chelsea offered us Lukaku instead.

 

[ashwuk76]

Still can't believe Chelsea offered us Lukaku instead.

I know we got a bit lucky there!

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Met him last season outside Goodison when he was commenting on a game, I forget which as it was in the death-throes of fat Sam's tenure. Dion was lovely however, very nice guy. He admitted he was almost about to join Everton but sudden cold feet at our end killed the deal. He didn't elaborate on it, I should have asked really.

He was very sheepish when I mentioned he almost buried us in '98... Almost apologetic. Very complimentary about Everton and seemed an honest genuine bloke.

A shame really as I always thought he was a clever striker, very adept and must have been horrible to mark for defenders.

Not fair to judge him against great strikers of Everton past though - we were swimming in a very small pool at the time and he was about the best we could find. That we never bothered signing him yet got Madar and Spencer speaks volumes about how pants we really were back then..

He hates robbie savage so he's alright in my book

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

The pinnacle of shame, however we later got Sam.

The shame of Sam could only ever be bettered by signing Troy Deeney

 

[dublinbluenose]

Remember being linked with David Dunn for a few seasons

 

[upthetoffees]

Deeney, Wilshere, Slimani

 

[Frang]

Martin skrtel... Them lot were welcome to him

Would of liked kuyt tho

 

[ClausThomsen]

Yeah it does seem to be a lost art. Even in the 90's there was a few of them knocking about like Ian Marshall, Gary Doherty and Paul Warhurst. We had it with Steve Watson I suppose, played him up top one game and he scored a hat trick!

Warhurst was mad. Played in defence for Sheff Weds, moved up front and scored a bagload and got a move to Blackburn on the back of it. Blackburn then played him in midfield as former Norwich defender Chris Sutton was up front alongside Shearer!

 

[Badge1878]

It's mad to me that back in those days you could have players that can play in the centre of defence or as a striker. There aren't any examples in the modern game but I was reading when Latchford left Birmingham, the replacement was someone they had on the books who was a centre back and then he went on to play for Clough's Forest team. I couldn't think of anyone who could do that today.

Chris Sutton did that job if I remember correctly - centre back at Norwich before being a forward player of some note!

 

[TyphooToffee]

Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe

Are you making names up?

 

[TyphooToffee]

Roy Race. Far too two-dimensional for me.