Players we sold too soon.

[tommye]

I think he's ****. Such an overrated Goalkeeper, I'd of said hold on for longer, to get a bigger fee, but how would anyone of known??

so.......we sold him too soon then?





*shakes head

 

[Minimeister]

I think the only answer is Wayne Rooney.

 

[Elong]

Big Dunc, Kanchelskis, Rooney off the top of my head. Alan Ball before my time but that would be a thread closer. Gary Linekar as far as being the second best striker we've ever had despite the shortness of the time we had him, but a lot of these sales come down to the price being right.

Someone above said Yakubu, I agree as a wildcard, that guy just knows how to score goals, I know I wish we had him at least on the bench right now and for the last couple of seasons, beats having Anichebe.

 

[mawders]

Limpar, Stuart, Amokachi

 

[tsubaki]

Beardsley and Barry Horne are the two most glaring examples to my mind.

 

[no danger mike]

How can anyone say rodwell or anichebe , they haven't done a tap since we got 18 million for the pair

 

[tsubaki]

How can anyone say rodwell or anichebe , they haven't done a tap since we got 18 million for the pair

£22 million brought into the club for those two and Vaughan - if that didnt guarantee medals all around for the youth setup, it should have.

 

[BiggyRat]

Eddy Bosnar

 

[SchoolOfScience]

Michael Ball, had his problems with injuries when he left but I thought he was top drawer in his early years

 

[Eggs]

...Alan Ball.

 

[dholliday]

Tony Cottee

I'm a Cottee fan, but we didn't sell him too soon. We had him for 6 years, and his time with us were his peak years.

He served us excellently, too...better goalscoring ratio than Sharpy, Gray or Big Dunc, you'd have to go back to Bob Latchford & Joe Royle (not counting that one Lineker season) to get to Cottee-levels of goalscoring.


Lineker, tho'...now that is one player we sold too soon.

 

[dholliday]

Lineker.

Really surprising that hardly anyone's mentioned him in this thread. Best goalscoring season in our blue since Dixie Dean days.


EDIT: just checked Wiki: 30 league goals in 41 games! That's nuts. And 40 goals in 57 in total. That's almost Ronaldo/Messi levels.

 

[Woolly Blue]

...Alan Ball.

I cried when we sold Bally.

 

[EFC David]

Simple - who do you think we sold before we should've?

I'll go first, and this is by no means an exhaustive list;

Martin Keown

Wayne Rooney

Peter Beardsley

Tony Cottee

Andrei Kanchelskis

We never sold Rooney too soon. He wanted to leave and we couldn't turn down nearly 30 million.

 

[EFC David]

Just going to say it, Beckford and Rodwell.

Oh and Dacourt.

As good a player as Rodwell is we got 12 million for him, if you go on Bluemoon the City fans are complaining that he's taking up a squad place. If he wasn't a crock he would have went for a lot more.