Possible transfers that fell through....

[MikeH72]

Craig Bellamy. Fee agreed, contract agreed, and then he fled after he met Moyes

 

[blue4eva77]

(1) Archie Gemmill - the story was that Harry Catterick was on the verge of signing him when Brian Clough went to Gemmill's house and stayed there all night, even sleeping on his sofa, until Gemmill signed for him. A cracking player who would have gone some way to filling the void after Alan Ball ,left us

(2) According to the recent biography, Catterick had arranged to sign Billy Bremner from Leeds. Don Revie had sanctioned the move but they had a number of players who were injured. Catterick allowed Bremner to stay with Leeds for a few more weeks until those players returned. However, Bremner played so well during that period that Revie changed his name

(3) I have alos read somewhere that Catterick made an enquiry about Kenny Dalgliesh when he was youth player at Celtic but Jock Stein refused to consider selling him

What too mate. Wonder if his parents were paid off for him to do so ?

 

[neil999]

martin dahlin...we seemed to be signing him for about 6 months

 

[Jayhow15]

Negredo?

 

[KevMirallas]

Negredo?

Fairly sure that was a bluff.

As was Fernando to force Whelan's hand with McCarthy.

Fer is the only one I can remember the club announcing and then ballsing up.

 

[Dithering Dougie]

Nigel Martin
Ruud Gullit
Steven N'Zonzi

 

[Kenh]

What too mate. Wonder if his parents were paid off for him to do so ?

Oops ! I meant to say "changed his mind". Having said that, most of the Leeds team were given new names by the rest of the country.

 

[No Alla Violenza]

McManaman - wanted to sign for us but we wouldn't match the RS' offer of a 2 year YTS deal

 

[Ashtonian]

Was we in for Michael Owen? OR Nzogbia?

Ever banega

 

[bol-uk]

Rick Elmy

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

Dion Dublin.

Failure to get him for a measly £1m meant the end of Kendall (MKII). Went to Coventry for £2m and banged them in left right & centre for them. Would've made all the difference if it'd been him with Paul Rideout instead of cottee.

 

[EvertonRhys]

- Alan Smith (Already agreed to go to United before we put a bid in- good swerve in hindsight but he could have fit in here at the time, and may have done well
- Wasn't there Brian Laudrup or someone like that in the mid 90s?
- Michael Essien I've heard we were after too? And Petr Cech?

 

[4737carlin]

Im sure there was a possibility that we might of bought Ian Rush from Chester but Gordon Lee wasnt convinced by him and went for Graeme Sharp. Hard to say Lee got that wrong because the player we did get did very well for us.

 

[fitzyefc]

Kendall turned Hadgi down

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

Oh, and I'm sure we had a bid turned down for shearer for around £3.3m when he was at Soton.

I read a while back that we tried to sign puskas in the late '50's