Everton’s Greatest Transfer Saga

[chippy1722]

Manuel Fernandes. It broke my heart when he went to Valencia.

We did eventually sign him, so this does count.

He never signed, he was only ever on loan. No permanent move ever went through.

 

[Raindog]

Martin Dahlin. Apparently he didn't want to play a long season. Bullet dodged in retrospect...

'Dahlin transferred from AS Roma to Blackburn Rovers in mid-1997 and made 21 appearances in the 1997–98 season, scoring four goals.

In the 1998–99 season, he only played five games when an injury in a training game ruled him out for the rest of the season and contributed to his retirement from the game after a short spell at Hamburger SV in 1999.

Blackburn Rovers later sued their insurance company who had refused to pay out over the injury claiming that normal wear and tear could have been a contributing factor. Although the initial verdict was given in favour of the club, in 2005 the Court of Appeal overturned the verdict and sent it back to the lower court. On 12 April 2006, the High Court ruled in favour of the insurance company, decreeing that the player probably had a pre-existing condition.[6] This decision left Blackburn about £4 million out-of-pocket.' (Wikipedia)

Edit: Admittedly not the greatest saga, just another frustrating example

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Amazed we never signed Bellamy or Robbie Keane the amount of times we were linked. Scott Parker also. Could be a thread on people that should have played for Everton.

Throw in robbie savage and Dean Saunders

 

[Barnfred 55]

Throw in robbie savage and Dean Saunders

Throw them in where?

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Throw them in where?

The river Dee obviously

 

[Muggins]

The only people who see them as sagas as the ones glued to twitter and news channels as they eek out tiny bits of information to keep you hooked on a needle like a Norris Green crack seller.

You massive bunch of utter virgins.

Bry’ just clarifying things there.

 

[TheFinnFan]

Yarmolenko

Personal favourite is Fer and Shaqiri, though

 

[Barnfred 55]

The river Dee obviously

Preferably from the viaduct.

 

[trueblue84]

lol There will never be a better picture to describe our 'transfer delegation'.

 

[Merseyzig]

Surely Muller is the winner here?

Ravanelli, Sean Davis, Lescott and Alan Shearer lol

Muller walking down Goodison Road in a red blazer was an all-time classic.
Ravanelli turned up with about 18 advisors at the Park End, PJ Spuddles must have been gutted he had to give each of them a hamper.

 

[RalphDring]

I remember when we re-signed Unsworth, after his lengthy six day spell at Aston Villa. That seemed a bit of a faff at the time.

 

[micah1982]

I remember when we re-signed Unsworth, after his lengthy six day spell at Aston Villa. That seemed a bit of a faff at the time.

yeah i recalled that. but delighted nonetheless