Which non LFC Player Would You Have Liked to Have Seen Play for us?

[Scott_M]

Bergkamp & Henry. 
 

Although ironically Bergkamp never really did much against us (one FA Cup goal?) and Henry continually tore us to shreds. 

[Jairzinho]

1 hour ago, kemskem said:

Maybe GJ wouldn’t have been bought, latterly.

 

Would have probably worked well ahead of Bob.

[Moctezuma]

I'm suprised these names haven't come up

 

Tony 'Hibbo' Hibert

Alessandro 'pissed-up' Pistone

Richard 'can two wrongs make a' Wright

Alex 'Gizza yer shirt ya div'  Nyakaro

Royston 'Cocaine is a hell of a drug' Drenthe

 

 

World beaters

[Jairzinho]

Naby Keita.

[Moctezuma]

I would have loved to have seen Pavel Nedved play for us but given the financial power of Italian league at the time probably not a 'doable' one and other positions were far more in need of an upgrade (centre back and goalkeeper)

[Dr Nowt]

Tevez and Vidic when we were linked with them under Rafa.

[redrosetints]

On 13/09/2023 at 09:00, Paul said:

As I said on the pod, Roy Keane. If we’d had him in the 90s, Roy Evans would’ve won the league and who knows where that would’ve taken us?

Defo Keane, would we have won the league ? I don’t know as we were always ‘one player’ away. If anyone could have been the one it was Keane for all the reasons described on the POD. All the more frustrating as we did go for Clough and Ince, his midfield partners, who absolutely weren’t the one.

 

plus if he didn’t go to the Mancs that may well change their history too.

[Arniepie]

14 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

I mentioned Gary Mabbutt in my choices as I admired him because he is a type 1 Diabetic and my late Dad was too. Therefore I understand the sacrifices and the problems he must have had to even play the game. I read a strange story about him having his toes or part of his foot chewed off by a rat while camping in Kruger National Park in South Africa. He didn't feel anything because of his Diabetic Neuropathy. 

i remember we were on the brink of signing him at 1 point and it fell through

[Arniepie]

20 minutes ago, redrosetints said:

Defo Keane, would we have won the league ? I don’t know as we were always ‘one player’ away. If anyone could have been the one it was Keane for all the reasons described on the POD. All the more frustrating as we did go for Clough and Ince, his midfield partners, who absolutely weren’t the one.

 

plus if he didn’t go to the Mancs that may well change their history too.

im not sure evans would have managed him tbh

[AngryOfTuebrook]

3 hours ago, kemskem said:

Maybe GJ wouldn’t have been bought, latterly.

Agreed.  If I remember rightly, we bought Johnson as a compromise because we needed both a winger and a right-back; had we bought Robben, we could have focused on a more defensive RB.

[El Rojo]

8 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

 

Yeah but the song would have been shit. 

 

Oh me Muchachos, you should see Kun Aguero
When he goes the Asda he buys a fucking Aero
All the muchachos and all the muchachas with smiles upon their faces 
Carry him down Scottie Road
To play for Kenny's aces 

 

That's absolutely horrific. Repped. 

[Pidge]

I think we did go for aguero, didn't we? There was a lot of talk about it when we played them in the Europa (when him and mascherano went at each other's shins like best mates in the schoolyard). Think that's when city came in and blew us out the water in terms of wages.

[YorkshireRed]

13 hours ago, Ronnie Whelan said:

John Robertson - a forgotten genius.

John Robertson rep. 
 

That he once told me I had a “cracking left foot” remains one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me. 

[CapeRed]

Jimmy Johnston , wee jinky woould have been awesome.

[KevieG]

of the players we were linked with : Laudrup, Pallister, D Silva, D Villa, Alves, Vidic, Modric

 

 

[Arniepie]

20 minutes ago, KevieG said:

of the players we were linked with : Laudrup, Pallister, D Silva, D Villa, Alves, Vidic, Modric

 

 

I think the thing with pallister,from memory, he was initially seen as a big failure at utd,it took him about a year to settle.

[Razoray]

6 hours ago, kemskem said:

Maybe GJ wouldn’t have been bought, latterly.

11th best RB in the league

[Evelyn Tentions]

23 hours ago, Harry's Lad said:

Henry and Viera would be my choice too and I know he's a cunt but John Terry.

My dad always wanted Denis Law.

Your Dad is a man of taste and discernment

[Razoray]

Desailly has been mentioned a lot. He was only linked around the time he moved to Chelsea in 1998. He was 30 years old at the time and wasn't the same player that had dominated at Marseille and Milan (in midfield and at the back). He was still classy but didn't seem to have the same hunger.

Jaap Stam moved to United that summer. He was only 26 at the time and was a monster of a centre back and a big personality. He was still playing in Champions League finals 7 years later.  He was exactly what we needed at the time, but we couldn't even choose one manager. 

[A Red]

2 hours ago, CapeRed said:

Jimmy Johnston , wee jinky woould have been awesome.

Yeah, he'd have been handy for lacing George Bests boots

[Atticus Finch]

5 hours ago, YorkshireRed said:

John Robertson rep. 
 

That he once told me I had a “cracking left foot” remains one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me. 

You’re getting mixed up with Robert Johnson the infamous Wakefield foot fetish pervert. 

[YorkshireRed]

5 minutes ago, Atticus Finch said:

You’re getting mixed up with Robert Johnson the infamous Wakefield foot fetish pervert. 

He is actually called Christopher Farrow.
 

Poor Wendy Speakes lived, and was killed, about a fifteen minute walk from me. 
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-65856256.amp

[CapeRed]

8 hours ago, A Red said:

Yeah, he'd have been handy for lacing George Bests boots

Shankly wouldn’t have put up with all his showbiz shite so IMO a good a footballer that best was I would have preferred jinky.

[clockspeed]

Tony Yeboah

Berbatov 

Worthington 

 

 

 

Like a bit of "mercurial " talent I do .  Loved big Jan and was always gutted when he wasn't in the team  . Absolutely magnificent footballer and for someone who is on the chubby side myself someone I could related to minus the footy talent. 

[Ronnie Whelan]

23 hours ago, YorkshireRed said:

John Robertson rep. 
 

That he once told me I had a “cracking left foot” remains one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me. 

Beautiful that Yorkshire!

 

What a player he was. That Forest team were terrific but he was a level above top team mates. 

 

Struck me the amount of great Scottish players there were. I mean if there was a joint England/Scotland team of greats, the Scots might have 7. Actually incredible they weren't perennial quarter finalists/semi finalists/finalists? when you think of how incredible their talent pool was. I mean the greatest spine in our history was Scottish. 

 

An all time Scotland, Wales and the two Irelands would be fabulous come to think of it. A thread for Bjornebye to work on!