Who was the worst phantom bid?

[EFCINLONDON]

Ravenelli

This.

 

[Somerset Blue]

Alan Smith from Leeds, dark days...this thread has cheered me up no end!

 

[Bob Latchford]

Alan Smith as well of course, before he went to Utd.

This one was particularly disgraceful as it was so obvious it was just embarrassing

 

[bretts angell]

Shearer surely.

Totally forgot about this...he turned down the best team in the country at the time (United, not us) to join his boyhood club. We were so confident we couldn't get him that we bid for him. Love it if true. I reckon we should table a pogba bid this summer.

 

[bretts angell]

I've gone for Banega purely because they got to the point of 'applying for a work permit' and everything. That is commitment to the phantom bid cause right there!

Oh we love a work permit issue...the harder it is to gain a work permit you can guarantee the more interest we show in a player.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Shearer,back in the day of the fax machine,after he'd already signed for Blackburn we'd put in an increased bid

 

[Azza]

Speaking of work permits, how about Fernando?

Martinez basically spent the whole day in the work permit hearing for him! And then he goes and posts on Instagram that he's staying at Porto. But not for that long

 

[jackyboy]

Grafite?

 

[PhilM]

Why can't we be allowed to vote for all of them?

 

[magicjuan]

I know it's a what not a who but the phantomest phantom bid in phantomtown for Everton has to be the King's Dock.

Absolute pearler of a project that had no intentions from Bill of completing. The work permit was the ring fenced funding, which wasn't ringed, nor fenced or had funding...

 

[nsno-chris]

Shearer - a bid lodged after he'd signed for another club

Alan Smith - a deal structured so bad that I could have paid it off, would have been more expensive to buy a TV from argos

 

[barneygumble]

Mata surely will be up there if it falls through!

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Scott Parker ?

 

[ggooggooggoo]

probably the most depressing thread i have ever read.

 

[KaiserEFC]

Speaking of work permits, how about Fernando?

Martinez basically spent the whole day in the work permit hearing for him! And then he goes and posts on Instagram that he's staying at Porto. But not for that long

Great shout, remember being glued to my phone at work praying we'd sign this exotic sounding Brazillian....On his performances for city Im glad we missed out