Players that left too soon

[Jimfanciesthedude 24,495]

1 hour ago, CoopsLaud said:

Carlos Cuellar was not here long but what a defender on his day. Yet another who shone in spl but was just another foreign player in the english prem.

We did better that summer imo, made a 5mill profit on cuellar and bought bougherra for less than 2.5mill

[raging blue 1972 894]

19 minutes ago, Malkytfp1 said:

Mental that they bought him to play alongside Xavi Alonso. Could av been some midfield.

Even more mental that after we paid  £6mil  for him Everton ended up getting him for just £2 mil.

he was homesick ............ for about 6 months

[BridgeIsBlue 66,595]

3 minutes ago, Jimbeamjunior said:

We did better that summer imo, made a 5mill profit on cuellar and bought bougherra for less than 2.5mill

Both of them would be just as good as Amoruso and Moore imo. 

[Scotjo 13]

Paul Ritchie.

[McEwan's Lager 30,501]

5 hours ago, LochendBilly said:

Peter Van Vossen

Did Advocaat not go mental when he found out we had let him go?

[plymouthranger 3,863]

Tugay, Robbie Savage and a few ex Blackburn players said he was the best player they’d ever played with. 

[Scotjo 13]

Kevin Drinkell, Terry Hurlock, Dale Gordon.

[LV 568]

Mel Sterland, Andy Kennedy, Sandy Robertson. 

[Leeds_Bear 8,102]

6 hours ago, trueblueal said:

Waghorn was a better option than Lafferty.

Decisions made by two different managers, not sure Waghorn was an option when we brought Lafferty in. 

[trueblueal 2,117]

2 minutes ago, Leeds_Bear said:

Decisions made by two different managers, not sure Waghorn was an option when we brought Lafferty in. 

I know, just an observation. Lafferty to me always looked like a pointless buy. He was a player I never rated the first time around and this time around he hasn't changed my mind. Waghorn I always thought was a decent player who could run the channels and hold up the ball. As an inside forward he'd have been ideally suited to playing the right side forward role. He was a player we could have used. 

[magic8ball 27,901]

28 minutes ago, moody blue 1972 said:

he was homesick ............ for about 6 months

correct .been away from Spain ever since 

[Zappa6995 3,641]

58 minutes ago, Jimbeamjunior said:

He wanted to go, claimed homesickness etc, was really out of the clubs hands

Cant stand him, his hair gave me the fear and still does, something shifty and snakey about him.

[northern bear 2,878]

Van Bronkhorst. Thought he was on a different level when he played for us. 

[KBOO72 4,358]

Mcgregor, Whittaker, Davis, Naismith and all the other rats. 

[Jimfanciesthedude 24,495]

1 hour ago, BridgeIsBlue said:

Both of them would be just as good as Amoruso and Moore imo. 

Craig moore was outstanding for us after palace failed to pay for him, he was absolutely solid and he fucking hated the tarriers, especially larsson

[Laudrupsleftfoot 10,777]

1 hour ago, plymouthranger said:

Tugay, Robbie Savage and a few ex Blackburn players said he was the best player they’d ever played with. 

You going to tell us who you're talking about then? 😉

[SteveEarle 9,726]

A lot of great players mentioned here but I always thought we could have squeezed another season out of Ray Wilkins.

[Ayrshire Blue 2,053]

4 hours ago, pcbear said:

Tugay for me played top level for ages after us, great player.

Tugay for sure.

[Laudrupsleftfoot 10,777]

Van Dijk has done what I thought Boumsong might have gone on to do. Crazy how much of a joke figure he became at Newcastle.

Hutton left too soon, probably the best player in the league at the time and might have made the difference towards the end of the season. Wish we'd have held out until the summer.

[gmcf 34,090]

Gazza . 

I know he wasn't having the best of seasons before we sold him to Middlesborough , but he had the ability to change a game even when not at his best . 

If he could have done that just once or twice that season we would have been sitting here with 10 in a row . 

[thetrurobear 15]

First thought definitely Gattuso. Also regretted selling Hutton. He was great at the time and I think it cost us the league. 

[thebluedoo 2,652]

Gordon Smith 1977 - 1980, we made a great profit off him (bought for 65,000 sold for 440,000) but we may have got a lot more for him and won more Trophies had we held on to him. Was a real hero of mine as a kid 

[Malvern 11,329]

Ian Black, should have fucking stayed at Hearts and left us the fuck alone.

[plymouthranger 3,863]

1 hour ago, Laudrupsleftfoot said:

You going to tell us who you're talking about then? 😉

Tugay haha

[KingKirk 25,603]

Jérémy Clément what a silky player he was loved him