M1tche Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Poborski to man u after euro 96 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Shearer to Newcastle after euro 96. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Ketsbaia to Newcastle. Nah, don't think I ever played for them. Not that I recall. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest n4e Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Arshavin's first season was pretty good though, no? Or am I remembering wrong? He was indeed good in the PL to begin with. Then for some reason, just went to s***. It's a shame he's never been given him a run in the number 10 position really. The only times he's ever played centrally for them iirc was during that spell as a lone striker. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Arshavin's first season was pretty good though, no? Or am I remembering wrong? the first half of that season he was a good call for player of the year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifu Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Arshavin's first season was pretty good though, no? Or am I remembering wrong? the first half of that season he was a good call for player of the year. That performance against Liverpool was something special (scored all 4 of Arsenal's goals too iirc). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segun Oluwaniyi Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Arshavin is a terrible example, btw. He was the best player in the Russian league, the best player in 2008 UEFA Cup, the best player in EURO 2008, and subsequently one of the best players in the world's best league when he arrived in England. He's lost form and aged, but he was not signed solely on the basis of his performance for Russia. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 I thought Guivarch was pretty s**** in that WC? Actually yeah, he wasn't that great during the World Cup. Guess that was a bad example then. Pretty sure we'd agreed a deal to sign him before a ball was kicked in that World Cup. Can remember watching helplessly as he scored no goals for the best national side on the planet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Hottiger & Albert to us after Keegan did commentary for ITV during the '94 World Cup. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gggg Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Arshavin is a terrible example, btw. He was the best player in the Russian league, the best player in 2008 UEFA Cup, the best player in EURO 2008, and subsequently one of the best players in the world's best league when he arrived in England. He's lost form and aged, but he was not signed solely on the basis of his performance for Russia. Yup. There was massive hype around him before Euro 08 thanks to his performances in the Uefa Cup especially. He was as good as everyone who had watched Zenit expected. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 We were strongly linked with him under Allardyce I remember that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gggg Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Oleg Salenko to Rangers after he scored 5 goals in one game at world cup 94 Maceo Rigters to Blackburn after the U-21 tournament a few years ago where Drenthe also got a move to Real Madrid. Both were better than Babel. Rigters is now in Australia. Gordon Strachan signed Mustapha Hadji and Youssef Chippo after Morocco thrashed Scotland at world cup 98 Ardiles and Villa to Spurs after the 78 World cup Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gggg Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 We were strongly linked with him under Allardyce I remember that. http://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/07/12/06/manual_084106.html&TEAMHD=soccer "Russia captain Andrei Arshavin admits he would be interested in joining Newcastle, should Sam Allardyce come calling in the January transfer window." He then had the form of his life for the next twelve months... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor Swift Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Not every WC buy fails. Ozil and Khedira are good examples of those who have made the step up. Diego Godin, another one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BooBoo Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Ilie Dumitrescu to Spurs after Romanian heroics at USA 94. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdm Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 We Signed Guivarch before the world cup but that's beside the point We probably should have waited till after Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 We Signed Guivarch before the world cup but that's beside the point We probably should have waited till after The thing is that if he'd had a good World Cup and ended up being a good player that we got for just £3.5m then it would have looked like a masterstroke. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Didn't we buy Guivarc'h on the back of a really good league season? He finished top scorer with Auxerre, playing alongside Siberski funnily enough. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 We Signed Guivarch before the world cup but that's beside the point We probably should have waited till after The thing is that if he'd had a good World Cup and ended up being a good player that we got for just £3.5m then it would have looked like a masterstroke. Pretty sure that's how Chelsea got Desailly on the cheap. Signed him before the world cup. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gggg Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 I'm pretty sure everybody knew about Desailly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 I'm pretty sure everybody knew about Desailly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Not really, I think they bought him from Italian minnows AC Milan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 But they bought him before the 1998 World Cup. If they had bought him after his price would have doubled because he had a fantastic tournament. Ofcourse he was known, but they got him at a very good price. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifu Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Didn't we buy Guivarc'h on the back of a really good league season? He finished top scorer with Auxerre, playing alongside Siberski funnily enough. I always assumed we signed him after the World Cup, I've since found this to be the wrong assumption. Having googled it, yeah we signed Guivarc'h at the end of the Ligue 1 season in 1998 (he finished as one of the top scorers in Ligue 1 too). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sho Time Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Didn't we buy Guivarc'h on the back of a really good league season? He finished top scorer with Auxerre, playing alongside Siberski funnily enough. I always assumed we signed him after the World Cup, I've since found this to be the wrong assumption. Having googled it, yeah we signed Guivarc'h at the end of the Ligue 1 season in 1998 (he finished as one of the top scorers in Ligue 1 too). As far as I'm concerned it comes down to whether or not you trust Graham Carr's judgement. I certainly do which is why I'm no longer even half as nervous about foreign players coming over here and flopping, which in our history has been just far too common. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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