Scott Parker and Momo Sissoko big ones for me. Both had agreed to come here until Newcastle and Liverpool came in with bigger offers. We ended up with Phil Neville.
I always remember the rumour mill swirling around Robbie Keane in the summer of 2005 when he was out of favour at Spurs but i dont think we ever put in a bid. I remember seeing that on teletext rumour mill and 'refreshing' it for the next few days to see if it would come off.
Bellamy the other one that summer, apparently
Moyes just talked about himself for the whole meeting accordign to Bellamy, but we know Bellamy was a difficult character so may not have been true.
Moutinho could have been amazing though we probably would've just been watching Yobo and Lescott thump it long to Yakubu/Andy Johnson/Louis Saha (imagine having one of those three playing for us now) and completely bypassing him.
Luis Diaz one really strings considering how good he's been for Liverpool and how it fell down due to James who's been on a minimum of £150k a week for 8 years refused a paycut.
Wonder how we could have shaped up in 03/04 with Michael Carrick threading balls to Wayne Rooney rather than Scott Gemmill.
Missing out on Shaqiri in 15/16 to Stoke also felt like a big blow. The obvious thin g being that we were meant to be chasing Champions League but were getting outbid by Stoke, the latter that we had Barkley, Deulofeu and Rom up top, all we needed was another quality wide player to compliment them and give us balance, instead we had Kone and Cleverely playing as a left forward and then the Martinez reign collapsed. Sliding doors moment there for me.
