Toon: The Nearly Men.
Posted on September 17th, 2009 | 30 Comments |
The idea was to get together a starting 11 made up of the ones that got away, but I was really struggling. Seeing as this wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be I’ve decided, in true 21st century media style, I’m going to get the reader to do all the work for me. Let’s try and make a starting 11 of the best players NUFC nearly signed. You can’t cheat and say something like Beckham in his prime. The player must be of the same age and talent as when we tried to sign him.
I’ll start you off with some of the big name signings we just missed out on and you can help by submitting your favourite ones that got away.
Here’s my list of confirmed players we put a bid in for:
Wayne Rooney
Roberto Carlos
Roberto Baggio
Steve MacManaman
Elano Blumer (Elano) – Apparently he was ready to sign for BSA, but this was when Ashley was taking over so all transfers were put on hold. Bummer.
Over to you. :-)
Andre Arshavin
Luka Modric