I didnt remember inzaghi playing for Juve, and he scored 3 against us in the 1999 season
Did he really play for them?
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George Weah played for Man. City that season aswell.
Until mentioned a couple of times recently on the BBC, I somehow completely forgot Kolo Toure ever played for Arsenal... let alone 200+ times including starting almost every game of their 'invincibles' season 
Garth 'look at my legs not my eyes' Crooks
Andy Cole, Robbie Fowler, mcManamamanaman, Didi Hamann, Paul Bosvelt, David Seaman, Peter/Kasper Schemaichel, played for City.
Back then passed it players prefered to play for clubs like Manchester City, Middlesbrough, Birmingham City, Bolton Wanderers, etc than went to China, USA, Middle East or Australia.
Wright at Burnley
Ashley Cole at Roma
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I had to laugh at this thinking that Cole was doing he’s best social isolation strategy in Roma
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I had to laugh at this thinking that Cole was doing he’s best social isolation strategy in Roma
That's the first team I'd think of him playing for.
Cattermole had a bizarre skill of seemingly being the least talented player on the pitch at whatever level he played, even league 1
Managed my boys Wycombe as well, in the loosest sense of the word.
Came in about October of a season, basically wrote that season off as "relegated", binned off the best 2 players, and did bizarre stuff like sign 17 year old Premier league starlets on 1 month loans. yeah it was lovely to see Steven Taylor of Newcastle and a young Villa kid and that, but totally useless for the plan of the season.
Told the press he was walking out in the autumn of the next season before our board too. Dreadful.
Bloody hellGarth 'look at my legs not my eyes' Crooks
This has shocked me!
He definitely hasn't lost that skill.
I remember he nearly signed for Utd in the summer of 1998.
Rivaldo at Milan
Kluivert...at Milan
Ronaldo...at Milan
Vieria...wait a minute.
Kluivert...at Milan
Ronaldo...at Milan
Vieria...wait a minute.
Pretty sure Luke Moore scored a hat trick in one of those Wycombe games, was keeping a close track of his progress at the time as we had high hopes.
Think in the book he claims credit for bringing Nathan Tyson through who had a solid FL career and may have been a young player then.
Given we're talking about managers there Louis Van Gaal at AZ Alkmaar is a forgotten part of his managerial career.
Always struck me as someone like Mourinho who'd turn his nose up at managing anyone below the elite level yet his reputation had dipped given he failed to get Holland to World cup 2002 and then disaster second spell at Barca.
Was a weird spell for him there aswell. Should've won the league in 06/07 but lost title on final day by losing to 16th club and finished 3rd. Then lost cup final on penalties to Ajax and champions league play offs aswell.
Then finished 11th in 07-08. Van Gaal was going to resign in March but was persuaded not to (similar to his last season at Man. United). 2008-09 it all came right and he won them the league.
Van Gaal then took over Bayern Munich and restorted himself to the upper level of managerial wishlists. What amuses me is the next winner of the Dutch league was Steve McClaren so all this happens 12 months earlier and he perhaps might've ended up at Bayern Munich himself....
Always struck me as someone like Mourinho who'd turn his nose up at managing anyone below the elite level yet his reputation had dipped given he failed to get Holland to World cup 2002 and then disaster second spell at Barca.
Was a weird spell for him there aswell. Should've won the league in 06/07 but lost title on final day by losing to 16th club and finished 3rd. Then lost cup final on penalties to Ajax and champions league play offs aswell.
Then finished 11th in 07-08. Van Gaal was going to resign in March but was persuaded not to (similar to his last season at Man. United). 2008-09 it all came right and he won them the league.
Van Gaal then took over Bayern Munich and restorted himself to the upper level of managerial wishlists. What amuses me is the next winner of the Dutch league was Steve McClaren so all this happens 12 months earlier and he perhaps might've ended up at Bayern Munich himself....
Yeah luke moore and Steven Taylor were quality. But why bring two kids in for one month? It made no sense bar him trying to show what connections he had.
Tyson was a superb signing and having written off trying to stay up from early autumn the season before, for a month or so the next season we did well.
After that though it was back to totally out of depth mode and some of the players accounts later were as comedy as they were alarming.
Trying to attribute arsenal players to our players showed he really wasn't cut out for the lower leagues.
I remember him trying to play our promising centre back Roger Johnson at left back and suggesting he might actually be a striker.
Roll on a few years and Johnson was in the premier league..funnily enough at centre back!
Yildary Basturk played 45 minutes for Blackburn Rovers.
Fernando Hierro played for Bolton along with Jay Jay Okocha and Mario Jardel.
Estaban Cambiasso played for Leicester City. Turned down an extra year. Had he stayed he'd of won the PL.
Jay Boothroyd went to Perugia and became pals with Colonel Gadaffi's son.
Kyle Lafferty played for Palermo.
Fernando Hierro played for Bolton along with Jay Jay Okocha and Mario Jardel.
Estaban Cambiasso played for Leicester City. Turned down an extra year. Had he stayed he'd of won the PL.
Jay Boothroyd went to Perugia and became pals with Colonel Gadaffi's son.
Kyle Lafferty played for Palermo.
Can remember all those apart from Basturk at Blackburn, no clue what season that was but guessing under Souness?
Can remember Hakan Suker also playing briefly for Blackburn.
Can remember Hakan Suker also playing briefly for Blackburn.
Now I just remembered Davor Sukur played for Arsenal.
Didn't United have some random Scottish keeper on loan in the early 2000s?
I think he played 2 games or something
I think he played 2 games or something
Andy Goram
That's it thanks
Batistua played 12 games for Inter Milan in 2003, was well past his best by then.
How about Butty at Newcastle?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/nicky-butt-tells-newcastle-united-1691086
Bendtner at Juventus
Whilst he was completely past it when we signed him and is a monumental wanker he is hardly a random keeper. Best British keeper of his generation.
Butt left United for Newcastle in 2004. Wanted to play week in week out football
Of course back then we just signed players like Kleberson and Djemba Djemba a year earlier and that probably cost Butty that extra 15-20 games that he usually gets.
Coventry and Celtic's Sweedish keeper Magnus Hedman was at Chelsea in the 06-07 season.
Until mentioned a couple of times recently on the BBC, I somehow completely forgot Kolo Toure ever played for Arsenal... let alone 200+ times including starting almost every game of their 'invincibles' season
That’s the team I associate him with when his name pops up. Striked a nice balance with Campbell from what I remember.
And Andy Goram as well.
Some wildly unremarkable ones. Will resist posting about Cambiasso at Leicester, even though it seems it has to be mentioned in every other post in this thread.
Patrick Mboma at Sunderland
Andrea Ranocchia at Hull
Eidur Gudjohnsen at Cercle Brugge
Remember Perugia also tried to sign female Hanna Ljungberg for the mens team playing in the Serie A. Would have been interesting to see. Perugia were up to some wild things in the early 2000's.
Patrick Mboma at Sunderland
Andrea Ranocchia at Hull
Eidur Gudjohnsen at Cercle Brugge
Remember Perugia also tried to sign female Hanna Ljungberg for the mens team playing in the Serie A. Would have been interesting to see. Perugia were up to some wild things in the early 2000's.
I pretty sure I saw Henry warming up for Juve in that famous last away game in 99, he actually did play for Juve that season but no matches in the CL.
And they still got relegated!Pretty much everyone who was at Portsmouth under Harry.
Mental.
Still can't believe (even after all these years) Saints signed the then European footballer of the year Kevin Keegan.
And Peter Shilton once England's most capped player!
James Maddison - Aberdeen
Claudio Caniggia - Dundee
Michael Chopra - Alloa
Claudio Caniggia - Dundee
Michael Chopra - Alloa
I was at that match. We were kept in after for what seemed to be a week!
Since Carroll, Goram & Kuszczak is already mentioned, this fellow definitely deserves a shout.
Made the team, played 4 games, gone.
I'm sure a lot of you remember this: (go to 1:40)
It's also worth mentioning that the next time he played, we lost 0-5. After 4 games he had conceded 11 goals.
2005 the season we got relegated!Matteo Darmian for Manchester United ho ho ho
Didn't remember Jamie Redknapp truning out 15 times for 'arry's Saints:
Neil Ruddock had a few clubs,
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985–1986 | Millwall | 0 | (0) |
| 1986–1988 | Tottenham Hotspur | 9 | (0) |
| 1988–1989 | Millwall | 2 | (1) |
| 1989–1992 | Southampton | 107 | (9) |
| 1992–1993 | Tottenham Hotspur | 38 | (3) |
| 1993–1998 | Liverpool | 115 | (11) |
| 1998 | → Queens Park Rangers (loan) | 7 | (0) |
| 1998–2000 | West Ham United | 42 | (2) |
| 2000–2001 | Crystal Palace | 20 | (2) |
| 2001–2003 | Swindon Town | 15 | (1) |
Needed to be reminded that Kaka had a 2nd stint at AC Milan.
You wouldn't know it looking at those two, japing away on the touchline very merrily.
Good shout on Ruddock, I remember Liverpool and West Ham and that's it.