Didn't we once try to sign him?
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Didn't we once try to sign him?
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Deitmar Hamann. Couldn't speak Bolton English.
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Gerry Daly, Dave Kitson .... both of whom, effectively, said "why would I want to sign for that shower?"
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Except we did, actually, sign him. Then sold him on a few days later making a cool £100k or whatever.TANGODANCER wrote:Deitmar Hamann. Couldn't speak Bolton English.
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Joey Barton?
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Yossi Benayoun, Joseph Yobo, Sylvan Distin.
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bobo the clown wrote:Gerry Daly, Dave Kitson .... both of whom, effectively, said "why would I want to sign for that shower?"
Which brings James Morrison to mind at WBA.
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IIRC Djibril Cisse, perhaps being quoted slightly out of context (but perhaps not), called us "third-rate".ChrisC wrote:Which brings James Morrison to mind at WBA.bobo the clown wrote:Gerry Daly, Dave Kitson .... both of whom, effectively, said "why would I want to sign for that shower?"
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Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:IIRC Djibril Cisse, perhaps being quoted slightly out of context (but perhaps not), called us "third-rate".ChrisC wrote:Which brings James Morrison to mind at WBA.bobo the clown wrote:Gerry Daly, Dave Kitson .... both of whom, effectively, said "why would I want to sign for that shower?"
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We genuinely went after Pele didn't we?Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Edwin van der Sar
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...and God. Though he's better as a striker.Andy Waller wrote:We genuinely went after Pele didn't we?Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Edwin van der Sar
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Pavel Pobgrebnyiak, i seem to recall.
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Indeed, as the BEN-quoting title of short-lived fanzine Now We Want Pele would attest. God, not so much.Andy Waller wrote:We genuinely went after Pele didn't we?Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Edwin van der Sar
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