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Eh? That is by far the worst option?

I missed the news that John Ruddy had retired? Was being linked to Blackburn the other day, where did you hear this? Korey Smith is another still playing.

Yep! I stumbled across this, and he won La Liga. Of course, nobody alive will remember this. He then inexplicably took the managers job at Barking Town when returning to England, where he was sacked within three months, I'm not sure if Barking Town were a big deal at the time or whether football was just really weird.

Hoping I've stumbled upon a challenging one here. There is a man who played for Norwich City and later went on to manage Barcelona. What is his name?

Nooooooo! Sacrilege!" Now I regret the thread.

I think this might be the winner. Wherever you go, meet somebody over 45 and say you are a Norwich fan and they immediately say "Jeremy Goss" And yet he spent most of his Norwich career sitting on the bench. Still, he scored the last ever goal in front of the old Kop, and that famous Bayern goal, let him have his iconic status. Simeon Jackson the Championship version, for years I was being asked "what happened to Simeon Jackson?", in reality he had about 6 good weeks here, and looked completely out of his depth the rest of the time then went back to his natural level in the lower leagues.

I can remember reading a rumour that Max Aarons vowed never to play for Mourinho after hearing the way he talked to some of his young players from the touchline in a closed door friendly at Colney. But I do think the way having an obvious weakness defending the back post with Max Aarons at centre back would have turned some sides off. We are so much better at defending in the air with McCallum and Stacey at full back.

They are praising him after that performance which was at right back, but they don't rate him at centre back at all and he can't do much in attack from right back. I wonder if he needs to be one of 3 centre backs in a sort of sweeper role, alongside two centre backs who are good in the air.

It is interesting reading Everton thoughts about Ben Godfrey. They seem to have concluded that he is a decent right back when you are expecting to be attacking much and will be under the cosh, but is flakey at centre back because he's weak in the air, and isn't much use when attacking which is what is expected from the modern full back. We did used to seriously struggle defending in the air when we had Godfrey and Aarons in our back four.

I actually agree with this, he was clearly very athletic and could get up and down on the pitch, but didn't have much composure and seemed to panic whenever he got the ball, we did remarkably well to get £15m for him.

This will be a bit of a contentious one, as we can't just name the many terrible players that we've had over the years as they wouldn't then be highly rated, but players who many thought were good but you just couldn't see it. My vote goes to Moritz Leitner, might be a tad harsh because he featured a lot in our first Farke promotion season and so some gratitude is owed to all who featured heavily in that, but I never really got the love in, hundreds of very short passes, in fairness he was always willing to receive the ball in midfield and always made himself available for the pass, but I think he was a bit of a one trick pony and that was all he really had to his game. Seldom played threatening or inventive balls forward, almost always went for the obvious or easy option, and seldom brought goals or assists to the table, couldn't tackle either. Did wonders for our possession stats mind. Plus would roll his shorts right up and make a huge deal about a 5 yard pass like he was the German Paul Scholes. Seems to have been sussed out and ditched quickly at every club he's been at.

I think he'd have done very well in the Championship, but apparently didn't fancy sticking around to find out, and Brest who he went to are not far from where he grew up, neighbouring province, and we got our money back on him, I think it was Lukas Rupp that we missed more upon relegation.

I literally didn't? I stood corrected?

Tony Springett got opportunities, we found out that he wasn't good enough.

I stand corrected, I misread something. They did finish bottom of the National League of though didn't they. I would humbly suggest that a 23 year old who last played football against binmen and taxi drivers is not being given a contract with Norwich City first team football in mind, more like we'll get him another National League loan and fund a couple of coaching badges so we aren't throwing him onto the football scrapheap after a cancer battle.