Everton’s Greatest Transfer Saga

[ically]

Showing my age like,but Nunes in the early 80’s.

 

[Frang]

The twitter and news channel generation should think themselves lucky.

Was a time we used to stare at Teletext and Ceefax all day whilst dialling premium rate telephone numbers which had lured us in with a headline like "Everton about to sign international striker" only to find out after hanging on for twenty minutes that we were looking to sign someone who once played for East Germany u23.

I spent £250 on Everton clubcall once to find out durk kuyt had actually gone to Liverdrool

 

[OneTrueLegend]

I remember back in the mid 90’s we were linked with every striker going, George Weah kept coming up, probably just Newspaper garbage, but that would have been amazing.
Missed out on Tore Andre Flo on deadline day in 96 and Joe Royle walked out, hard day that one.

Ravanelli and Klinsmann were quite bad as well, the players demands were said to be off the scale, for the time, £50k per week after tax, free house, free car, live in London and get flown up for games and training

 

[jackyboy]

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.

 

[KaiserEFC]

Honourable mention to Cuco Martina, we made signing a player who was out of contract and who absolutely no one else wanted take the entire summer

 

[Danny Ve Dito]

The twitter and news channel generation should think themselves lucky.

Was a time we used to stare at Teletext and Ceefax all day whilst dialling premium rate telephone numbers which had lured us in with a headline like "Everton about to sign international striker" only to find out after hanging on for twenty minutes that we were looking to sign someone who once played for East Germany u23.

This is true! I remember ringing that team talk number and staying on 20 mins to hear about us signing a French International Striker.
Turned out to be Mikel Madar, the call cost about ten quid and back then I could have rang "Chantelle from California" and blown my load 5 or 6 times in the space of a week talking to her about BDSM for the same price.

 

[joe5494]

surely has to be Moutinho?
honourable mention to Vadis Odjija Ofeo

 

[Deleted member 28206]

The twitter and news channel generation should think themselves lucky.

Was a time we used to stare at Teletext and Ceefax all day whilst dialling premium rate telephone numbers which had lured us in with a headline like "Everton about to sign international striker" only to find out after hanging on for twenty minutes that we were looking to sign someone who once played for East Germany u23.

Spot on mate

 

[chrismpw]

Oh, you had a colour monitor eh? Posh that.

 

[MikeH72]

Imagine if we'd secured Banega that time we had the work permit and everything.

That was great, announcing him on the website and he didn't even know what an Everton was.

 

[Shipped]

Kanchelskis seemed to drag on forever, right at the age when I really gave one about stuff like that.

 

[Jon Day]

I have fond memories of Leroy Fer, before he got relegated twice.

but this was in the days when we didn't sign any players.

 

[Seathestars]

There's been that many its like sticking a kid in a sweetshop and asking him to choose

 

[Toffeelover]

Harry Catterick signing Alan Balllol

 

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