The transfer that shocked or saddened you most.

[Dan Tanner]

By the way I think Andy Grays a bell these days anyway

 

[Neiler]

Rooney.

 

[muddy mudguard]

Think because of my age, it was when Andy Gray left after those two brilliant seasons, I know we got lineker but it felt like we were breaking an amazing team up. Then when Trevor Steven moved on I was gutted.

Kanchelskis was another that was way too good for us at the time, what a player!

Great shout - I remember they signed him for a ridiculously low figure at the time - I think it was 1.5million or something. I was mortified. Rangers had taken one of our best players and paid peanuts for him.

 

[The Equaliser]

.....the sale of Alan Ball was the same as one of those 'where were you when Kennedy was shot' moments. I remember it distinctly, my old mum waking me up holding the full back page of the Daily Mirror with massive headline 'Ball is Sold to Arsenal'.

Remember in those days there were no rumours, no internet, no inkling it was going to happen. Shock and immense disappointment to see the greatest player you ever saw leave. Nothing comes close.

Came down for breakfast before school and was told the news and didn't believe it at first, then heard it on the radio myself. Couldn't take it in for months afterwards. As you say it was a JFK moment.

From that moment on I have always considered us to be a club which sells it's best players whenever necessary if the price is right.

 

[COYBL25]

When Bob Latchford left us in 1981 to sign for Swansea. I was only a kid so didn't read the papers or really pay attention to the sports stuff on telly, so was totally unaware of any rumours. I remember my dad waking me up to tell me that he'd gone and crying my eyes out. I honestly felt like he had betrayed me personally and feeling like crap for days after.

 

[Lukaku'sLeftTesticle]

Most shocked easily Cahill . Was about to go to sleep ... I woke the girl up next to me who I had been seeing for like 2 weeks and told her in a sad, empty disbeleiving way 'Cahill has gone! He has left to America'

 

[Lukaku'sLeftTesticle]

After that Maggy Gueye . I had big plans for the lad

 

[Chang Elephant]

Wayne Rooney to Man U. Tried for a sympathy shag with the missus that night.....could not get my mind off the emotions of anger, hate, betrayal, humiliation etc....Mr Floppy came out to play.

True story

 

[gaino92]

Big dunc to Newcastle, I was only 7 but he was my hero!! Rooney was gutting as was arteta but nothing compared to dunc leaving

 

[The Equaliser]

OUT - Bally, same as many of us of a certain vintage.

IN - Kanchelskis. At the time it was the biggest signing we had made for many a year and it was a shock that Utd let him go and we managed to secure him. It was supposed to be the first of many in the new Johnson era after we had won the Cup but sadly Johnson and Royle fell out and the club fell apart instead, so it was inevitable that we couldn't hang on to him. Great memories though.

Great thread @Khalekan

 

[Khalekan]

OUT - Bally, same as many of us of a certain vintage.

IN - Kanchelskis. At the time it was the biggest signing we had made for many a year and it was a shock that Utd let him go and we managed to secure him. It was supposed to be the first of many in the new Johnson era after we had won the Cup but sadly Johnson and Royle fell out and the club fell apart instead, so it was inevitable that we couldn't hang on to him. Great memories though.

Great thread @Khalekan

Cheers, Ed

 

[LinekersLegs]

Not really a surprise given my username but for me it was Lineker, both joining and leaving.

The media circus around his 800k transfer got me interested enough to start watching football - my Grandad had been a season ticket holder but he'd died years before and my Dad didn't share the interest. Once I did I was hooked and Lineker's legs, scoring record and the Golden Boot in Mexico all helped reinforce the attraction to the sport and the club

And then he was sold to Barcelona, quite honestly I was devastated.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Rooney

Still a sore one that

Honourable mention to Lescott though. Was gutted when he left, both from an Everton perspective and an England perspective. If he'd stayed at Everton, him and Jagielka would have been the first choice CB pairing for England once Terry naffed off

 

[blue62]

My dad picked me up from primary school and broke the news that Ball had gone, as others have said, it was a JFK/Twin Towers moment (which is overstating it somewhat, but that was the impact on me at the time). He never gave Arsenal the same service, absolutely the best player we've ever had IMO and a complete shock when he went, which underlines how far we have fallen. Steve McMahon and David Johnson were also shocks, especially as they were clearly headed to the RS. A good, if not depressing, thread.

 

[Gladystweet]

Rooney definetly, wasn't a shock but still gutting. Trevor Steven and Gary Stevens without doubt and believe it or not..Steve McMahon to villa. Like Rooney, I thought he was the future.