With talk of Leicester almost signing Harry Kane for £600k, we’ve picked out a huge near-miss for every Premier League club, including Liverpool choking over losing Cristiano Ronaldo, and Fulham making a disastrous decision over Antoine Griezmann…
The Dutch genius was looking to return to Europe from the United States in 1981 and though Arsenal were keen, Leicester manager Jock Wallace fancied his chances. “Johan and I have already agreed terms. He has one or two problems to sort out, but I am very hopeful he will join us on Thursday,” Wallace told. “I would like to think that part of Johan’s interest is down to our personal friendship.
Cruyff had apparently agreed a £4,000-a-week contract but, instead, he joined Levante and Leicester were relegated.Gerard Houllier and Phil Thompson thought they had Ronaldo in the bag for £4million when Sporting Lisbon were looking to cash in on the teenager in 2003.
According to Terry McDermott’s autobiography, those were the words of the Toon chairman when he rocked up at Juventus in 1996 to take Baggio back to the North-East. Bemused, perhaps partly because Baggio had gone to AC Milan the year before, whomever answered the door told Hall he’d had a wasted journey. “So Douglas and the rest of us had to slope out of the ground and return to Turin airport.”In 2009, Bale was just a kid who seemed to be a curse on Tottenham.
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