Players you still can't believe played for us

Nil Satis Niasse Optimum · October 10, 2016

Opposite ends of the scale but:

- Andrei Kanchelskis. Absolutely unreal talent and a steal at 5m from United. Gutted he didn't stay very long. World class player, the most talented player I've seen play for us in 30 years.

- Sander Westerveld. Doesn't get much lower than the desperate signing of an ex-Liverpool reject.

Ashtonian · October 10, 2016

First....ly

Gazza, hughes and ginola for me.

For all intents and purposes, they were greats of the game as a kid so to see them in a blue shirt and before i was old enough to fully understand we were just a contract to them at that point, pretty special for me.

apart from him, Matterazzi and Dacourt. Out tevez/mach situation, players much better than the club at the time suggests, one is a world cup winner for petes sake and yet he played here.

Deleted member 24970 · October 10, 2016

Sammy Eto'o jesus I thought it was all a dream.

From a bad point of view, id say Westerveld or Anthony Gardner type signing.

Nil Satis Niasse Optimum · October 10, 2016

Ashtonian said:
First....ly

Gazza, hughes and ginola for me.

For all intents and purposes, they were greats of the game as a kid so to see them in a blue shirt and before i was old enough to fully understand we were just a contract to them at that point, pretty special for me.

apart from him, Matterazzi and Dacourt. Out tevez/mach situation, players much better than the club at the time suggests, one is a world cup winner for petes sake and yet he played here.

To be fair they were relative nobodies when we signed them, as far as I can remember.

Sure Materazzi went on to win the WC, but Dacourt didn't amount to much after he left us. Didn't rate him that much myself either.

Gazza, Hughes, Ginola - absolutely disgraceful signings. Let's hope we never have to revisit days like that ever again.

Blackwell Livermore · October 10, 2016

Beardsley and Kanchelskis for me.

Saint Domingo · October 10, 2016

In the future people will answer this thread with 'Lukaku'

The Cowboy · October 10, 2016

Limpar. How did we persuade Arsenal to sell him?!

Troubador · October 10, 2016

Lukaku

Ashtonian · October 10, 2016

Nil Satis Niasse Optimum said:
To be fair they were relative nobodies when we signed them, as far as I can remember.

Sure Materazzi went on to win the WC, but Dacourt didn't amount to much after he left us. Didn't rate him that much myself either.

Gazza, Hughes, Ginola - absolutely disgraceful signings. Let's hope we never have to revisit days like that ever again.

To be fair about them, its like the lebondowski story at blackburn, he went to some jarg team, all of a sudden he is scoring 4 or 5 goals in 10 minutes for bayern and being spoken about world class.

Its the two sides of cant believe they played for us, we had both future world cup winners and players who were finished as well during that period.

Random question, did Ginola win the world cup? He was one of the best in the league at the time, did he get called up or play in his home finals?

Ashtonian · October 10, 2016

The Cowboy said:
Limpar. How did we persuade Arsenal to sell him?!

because he was bloody inconsistent mate that's why lol

One thing i remember as a kid about him, on his day he was an amazing player. But that was never on a weekly basis

Nil Satis Niasse Optimum · October 10, 2016

Saint Domingo said:
In the future people will answer this thread with 'Lukaku'

Troubador said:
Lukaku

You're right @Saint Domingo.

The Cowboy · October 10, 2016

Ashtonian said:
because he was bloody inconsistent mate that's why lol

One thing i remember as a kid about him, on his day he was an amazing player. But that was never on a weekly basis

Irrespective, he was a superb player and a real coup at the time.

Brendan Janus · October 10, 2016

Paul Bernard said:
Sammy Eto'o jesus I thought it was all a dream.

From a bad point of view, id say Westerveld or Anthony Gardner type signing.

Did Anthony Gardner ever play

LydiateLee · October 10, 2016

Peter Beardsley

What a player. Remember my dad coming in with the Echo and just throwing it in front of me. Never have I been that excited about signing a player, I was 8 at the time.

Brendan Janus · October 10, 2016

Ashtonian said:
because he was bloody inconsistent mate that's why lol

One thing i remember as a kid about him, on his day he was an amazing player. But that was never on a weekly basis

I thought he always looked dangerous !!