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Read an article reporting on the same old deals that get bandied around every time:

Maradona - Sheff Utd

Lewandowski - BBurn

Ronaldinho - Man U/ St Mirren

Falcao - Villa

Anyone got any others they know, particularly ones we missed?

Andy Carroll for £1m springs to mind, as does Crouch for £1.5m

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Sheffield Wednesday rejected Eric Cantona on the grounds that "he wasn''t good enough" after 1 trial game....

wasnt Zidane once turned down as a youngster by an English Club? was Late 80''s, remember reading it in 4-4-2.. think it might have been Coventry?

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Edison Cavani was on the verge of joining Hull when they were last in the prem (if I recall) for 2.5million

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When Hull were last in the Prem, they were looking at Cavani (then of Palermo) and were in talks to sign Negredo, Phil Brown admitted this a couple of weeks ago

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Ipswich had Gazza on trial but said he was ''too fat'''' to sign, and Bobby Robson brought Ruud Gullit over for a trial, but he opted to sign for Feyenoord. Thank God for that, hey?!

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Think the Dean Windass saga for us is the big story of a player we were linked with but never joined us. I heard we put in a low bid and after protracted haggling they came down and eventually said they''d accept a price we had offered at an earlier stage in the deal, but then we cut our offer even further . No surprise that it never happened in the end.

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[quote user="Eadie4England"]simon haworth, solomon taiwo[/quote]

Exactly, there''s 2 sides to ''what might have been!''

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Zidane to Blackburn, but Jack walker asked Dalgleish ''Why do we need Zidane, we have Tim Sherwood''

George Hagi to Newcastle, however they spent their last bit of money on Warren Barton instead

Lewankowski was set to join Blackburn, but couldnt get there due to the Volcanic Ash stopping planes, so went to Germany instead.

Eric Cantona did have a trial at Sheff Wed before signing for Leeds

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As anyone seen the news Re-Falcao, apparently he is 2 years older than he says. And shouldn''t have played in the 2 tournaments (U''20 and 21) I believe.

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We trialled Jussi Jaaskelainen in Oct 1997 at a time when Greeno was still third choice ''keeper. We took so long deciding whether to sign him Bolton sneaked in and signed him up instead.[:S]

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[quote user="CDMullins"]Zidane to Blackburn, but Jack walker asked Dalgleish ''Why do we need Zidane, we have Tim Sherwood''

George Hagi to Newcastle, however they spent their last bit of money on Warren Barton instead

Lewankowski was set to join Blackburn, but couldnt get there due to the Volcanic Ash stopping planes, so went to Germany instead.

Eric Cantona did have a trial at Sheff Wed before signing for Leeds[/quote]

The Zidane one has to be the best of all time. One of the greatest, if not the greatest, footballers rejected in favour of Tim sherwood. Brilliant.

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