Dele Alli

[Zlate]

Has there been a bigger mistake our board has ever made? A Liverpool fan and he slipped through our fingers

 

[Gary25]

Criminal.

 

[mom]

depressing, but, it's what we do.

 

[refugee]

Has there been a bigger mistake our board has ever made? A Liverpool fan and he slipped through our fingers

In answer to your question, we let Ronaldo slip through our fingers.

But aside from that, I'm sure there are hundreds of players we had a chance to sign but didn't. Same for most biggish teams.

 

[FoxForceFive]

Yeah, the Ronaldo one is probably the biggest fuck up cos it's easy to trace back thanks to the press, I'm fairly sure there's been many equally damaging ones for loads of top clubs though.

 

[Comical Aly]

Hodgson was a pretty big mistake. Not just his tactics, he wrought further destruction with his shite signings.

 

[Dreambeliever]

Nah, let's see how he goes over the few years before crying about it.

 

[Hansern]

Big loss. Fantastic talent and I cant believe we fucked that up. Gerrard is a rolemodel and Robinson was their manager. Clusterfuck to not get that over the line.

 

[HC]

Was aguero actually ever close to happening during rafas reign ?

 

[Judge Jules]

We nearly lost the King. He came down for a trial when he was 15 but got homesick and we couldn't persuade him to stay at that time.

 

[Leo]

He's brilliant and absolutely anyone that saw him for Mk Dons just knew by looking at him he was streets ahead of everyone in the division.
It's a terrible shame.

 

[Leo]

By the by who's decision was it that he wasn't worth the wages?
Should be hung and quartered whoever it was.

 

[LeTallecWiz]

Can we ban mentioning this again? It's fucking terrible to think that this player should have been ours, and that in 2-3 years time, he'll be at Manure or one of the big continental teams.

 

[keniget]

Was aguero actually ever close to happening during rafas reign ?

I don't remember hearing anything about us signing him. It's largely fueled by that interview he gave stating that he likes Liverpool and always chooses us on FIFA or some shit.

He went to A.Madrid for 17M shortly after. We signed Lucas and Babel for the same money.

 

[My_Blood_Bleeds_Red]

I remembered when Sterling burst onto the scene. Everyone was raving about him. Soon after, they were turning against him.

Dele'll probably face the same fate.

 

[Leo]

I remembered when Sterling burst onto the scene. Everyone was raving about him. Soon after, they were turning against him.

Dele'll probably face the same fate.

He's not a self obsessed mong with a shit haircut though so that's a start.

 

[cloggypop]

We had Bony on trial.

[emoji20]

 

[gkmacca]

I don't remember hearing anything about us signing him. It's largely fueled by that interview he gave stating that he likes Liverpool and always chooses us on FIFA or some shit.
.

No it's not. It's fuelled by the fact that it WAS widely reported we were signing him, and by the fact that both Robinson and Rodgers have since said it was as close to a done deal as possible without it happening.

 

[keniget]

No it's not. It's fuelled by the fact that it WAS widely reported we were signing him, and by the fact that both Robinson and Rodgers have since said it was as close to a done deal as possible without it happening.

You didn't read the whole post, did you?

 

[gkmacca]

It looks like you didn't read the thread title, did you?

 

[Red Bird]

By the by who's decision was it that he wasn't worth the wages?
Should be hung and quartered whoever it was.

That's a tall tale from the tabloids which suits a certain narrative about wages. I suspect somebody at the club, in position to make a decision, concluded the priority was not an 18-year old but immediate results, since we had loads of them in the Academy.

 

[keniget]

It looks like you didn't read the thread title, did you?

It wasn't me who first mentioned Aguero.

Don't get shirty just because you look a bit silly for jumping on someone for no reason.

 

[Fabio]

What does the term "get shirty" actually mean?

Like it's origins and shit

 

[LeTallecWiz]

[article]But, on Sunday night, Madrid-based paper AS have posted ominous news about Alli, suggesting that Real Madrid are watching the England midfielder and he is swiftly emerging as a youngster they may have to buy.[/article]

 

[Silver Sean]

What does the term "get shirty" actually mean?

Like it's origins and shit

Try google.

 

[Fabio]

Try google.

I was hoping someone might know on here

 

[Silver Sean]

I was hoping someone might know on here

I think it's pretty clear that no one on here knows anything.

 

[manwithnoname]

Why don't we assume that the etymology of "getting shirty" is something to do with having to wear more formal attire when presiding over an important function or decision like in some muddy village in which the farmers are arguing over who needs to fix the fences and the elder farmer puts on his best formal shirt and decides who needs to fix the fence.

 

[Arn]

Was aguero actually ever close to happening during rafas reign ?

We didn't had the money to sign both Kuyt and Aguero. Our board didn't want to pay very high wages to a young talent like Aguero so we signed Kuyt instead.

 

[HC]

@Fabio it's Something to do with the Irish and 'get shorty '