Players linked with Boro for ages but never signed

Branco, not Branca. According to the Echo at the time we bid £6.3m for RC in the February (1996) and Inter rejected it.

We then signed Branco on a free, and maybe intended to go back for Roberto Carlos in the summer we signed Rav/Emo, but he signed for Real Madrid that summer and I don't think anyone seriously thought we could get him after that.
Yeah I meant Branco. You are correct though. For some reason I thought Carlos was one of the names on the magical 97/98 list had we stayed up. Can’t see how we’d have been able to tempt him from Madrid so I must be mistaken.
 
Yeah I meant Branco. You are correct though. For some reason I thought Carlos was one of the names on the magical 97/98 list had we stayed up. Can’t see how we’d have been able to tempt him from Madrid so I must be mistaken.

I think he is often mentioned on that list, which may be true or may be people not remembering that he’d gone to Real Madrid. But the only memory I have of us being linked with him in the press etc was just before we got Branco, I distinctly remember the big headline in the Northern Echo about us bidding for him but then ending up with Branco.
 
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