First player who left and made you hate them

[blue1948]

£10m down payment for a player he said 3 months earlier he wouldn’t sell for £50m

Crying in Ferguson’s office after selling our star asset ,good old bill

Here we are again selecting the facts to feed your bias ,no matter how the payment was made it was a record .I am not a fan of Bill but I need to see reason not fiction or bias before I can agree .The 50 mill bit -if you think no one has ever sold a player " that isn't for sale "or for a lower sum than quoted then head and sand come to mind .

 

[hirons11]

Barmby - still hate him. The rest I'm not that bothered about.

 

[StreetEndBlue]

I was a kid at the time but I was absolutely gutted when we sold Lineker. Scoring all those goals for us and then going on to be leading scorer in the World Cup. We had arguably the best goalscorer on the planet and then sold him for less than the RS got for Ian Rush who'd been outscored by Lineker in 85/86 and who couldn't even get to a World Cup let alone be leading goalscorer in one. I never hated Lineker though and believe he'd have stayed had the European ban not still been active at the time.

Hate is a strong word but I intensely disliked Rooney for many many years after his acrimonious transfer down to that lot down the Lancs and his behaviour everytime we played them only stirred it up further. It wasn't until 5 or 6 years after he left until the real dislike of him started to die down.

I couldn't have cared less about Abel Xavier crossing the park. He was hardly a huge loss for us and we did get £800,000 when we'd have got nothing for him when his contract ran out that summer. Barmby was different though, he'd probably been our most consistent player in 1999/2000 but he ended up being a flop at Liverpool and they binned him off two years later for less than half of what they paid us for him which raised a smile from me.

 

[tnc85]

Barmby

 

[Tipp blue]

£10m down payment for a player he said 3 months earlier he wouldn’t sell for £50m

Crying in Ferguson’s office after selling our star asset ,good old bill

Bill told the truth, said he wouldn't sell for 50 million... and was bang on he didn't sell him for 50 million.

 

[NCLBlue]

Rooney was the worst for me. He was in 442 magazine August 2002 and my RS cousin gave the poster to me when we were on holiday loved him and 2 months later that Arsenal goal.

I was 13 when he left and it was devastating seeing a blue with that much talent go to Man Utd.

 

[Big Sams Little Pecker]

£10m down payment for a player he said 3 months earlier he wouldn’t sell for £50m

Crying in Ferguson’s office after selling our star asset ,good old bill

What an embarrassing Queen he really is.

Melt.

 

[Wolf8312]

Rooney. I ripped up my posters, defaced my Everton books, bawled in my mothers arms, and cancelled my 21st birthday party...

 

[Tipp blue]

Rooney. I ripped up my posters, defaced my Everton books, bawled in my mothers arms, and cancelled my 21st birthday party...

Classic

 

[MondayHater]

Nicky Barmby with out doubt. I grew up in an area full of Liverpool and Man Utd fans who didn’t understand.

 

[Sunny Rhyl]

Dan Gosling, spent 18 months rehabilitating him and he then refused a new contract.

 

[irishtony1878]

Steve McMahon, left Everton for Villa just as we were about to become the best side in Europe.
Got my own back on him when we were playing a semi final at Villa Park and he was in the car park, i was giving him loads about show us your medals etc ha ha.
Met him a few years later at a christening and I didn't say anything, he was alright really

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

Lineker, but more disappointment than hate

This, in regards to Rooney...faded after a while as he generally wasn't that good against us compared to everyone else, and I believe largely on purpose, 'cause he was a 'kin nightmare on the pitch back then.