The transfer that shocked or saddened you most.

[Dutch Toffee]

Most saddening Tim Cahill to NY Red Bulls. It was clear at the time that day was becoming increasingly closer, but still a very sad day. Most shocking Rooney to Man Ure, Barmby to the RS and Ferguson to Skunks. Also Manny Fernandes opting to walk out on an Everton deal and sign for Valencia was quite a shock.

 

[squonk]

us getting £4m from Sheffield utd for Beattie

 

[Zatara]

Kancho -- we knew it was coming due to the rumours of Fiorentina making a bid and he underperformed compared to his 1st season but gutted as he was probably the best winger in the world.

Speed -- Couldnt believe our captain would leave but later we heard that Kendall had a row with him.

Very excited with -- Simonsen/Materazzi/Dacourt/Bakayoko on paper when they all signed it looked like we had a top notch spine for a decade at least...couldnt understand why Materazzi was sold at the same price we paid and dacourt replaced with the donkey.

Bilic and Nyarko disasters.

 

[Chewbacca]

This will depend on the dempgraphic of the site.

Personally, Alan Ball. I could barely speak for days.

 

[hallamblue]

Duncan McKenzie to Chelsea, my first idol.

 

[OneTrueLegend]

Rooney to Man Utd saddended me, but I wasnt shocked.

I am too young to remember Alan Ball playing for us,
Lineker to Barcelona was a bad one, but I wasnt exactly shocked and we more than doubled our money!
Ferguson to Newcastle wasnt that much of a surprise and as much as I loved him, he was injured a lot, so at the time I just hoped we would sign someone who could play more than 15 games a season.
Arteta to Arsenal wasnt a shock (under Moyes we tended to sell on deadline day) and I thought we got good money for him and he seemed to be getting worse for us, less mobile and poorer delivery from set pieces.

Gravesen going to Real Madrid was a massive shock, just because he was no where near that level as a player.

Gary Speed was probably the saddest, but these days it is in the media so much before hand with teams supposedly offering to double his wages, its rarely a shock when a player finally makes that move. I have since read that effectively the club had to sell him to pay off debts, but made out that it was him who angled for a move, so that the fans didnt kick off. Makes it even more sad.

 

[AdamEFC]

Arteta, he was my childhood idol. Can still remember being on holiday in Lanzarote when it came on the tele in a bar that he was gone. I was absolutely devastated.

 

[Boss_Blue]

Duncan Ferguson - I was devastated when he left.

 

[Huyton Layne]

Cried my eyes out when Rooney left.

Pretty sure you cried when Zayn left 1D

 

[Bluebonic]

Bit shocked and saddened when we got Aaron Lennon. Turns out I knew nothing about football.

Same here when we bought ready, I was horrified, he was a complete crock and always injured! ditto Paul Power, it just goes to show what a genius Kendall was!

 

[Bluebonic]

Same here when we bought ready, I was horrified, he was a complete crock and always injured! ditto Paul Power, it just goes to show what a genius Kendall was!

Reidy I meant, bloody predictive text!

 

[Hellerad]

Drenthe.

Just think about the player Barkley would have become under his snootelage.

 

[Fresh Prince of Belle Val]

Abel Xavier. Cried for a week.

Tears of joy that is.

 

[RalphDring]

I was gutted when Trevor Steven left us, my favorite player of the 80s, I was pretty shocked when big Dunc left and remember when Gary Speed left seeing a picture in the paper of him arriving at Newcastle's training ground didn't sit well with me for some time.

 

[Blue Cheese]

Big Dunc for me, I wondered what the fook was going on and boom he played for Newcastle, completely gutted as he was the main man for us at the time and loved by everyone.