Who should we have never sold?
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Corcaigh_the_Cat
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Add Spike and Bailey to that for a disastrous period which culminated in locked gates.
chickenrunner
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I can remember being stood on the South Terrace during that awful 81/82 season. I think we'd just conceded and someone shouted ...... "where's the midfield?", a voice from behind answered ..... "Southampton, Nottingham and Liverpool".
indeedido
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Gibson only got control in 93. He got the club for a million quid.I agree he certainly shouldn't be immune to criticism and has made more than a few mistakes but I think there may be someone important you're leaving out there.
Before that he was an enthusiastic cheerleader, with ambition and no money.
Jedi boro
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That’s why I picked Morrison as here was a local who came through the ranks and had a credible goal record and we sold him for a pittance never really replaced him.
He then went on to play almost his entire career in the top flight and represented Scotland at senior level.
Madness.
Chappy112
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In terms of importance it has to be Schwarzer, Rochemback, Boateng and Cattermole. Not because any of them were amazing at that point in their careers but because the season we went down those were the 2 positions we were utterly devoid of competent footballers.
Didn’t we end up playing Bates in centre mid a few times?
Out of the players that we didn’t need to sell and I was devastated to see leave it would be Juninho to Celtic but I guess you can’t really argue with what McClaren did the next 2 seasons.
Didn’t we end up playing Bates in centre mid a few times?
Out of the players that we didn’t need to sell and I was devastated to see leave it would be Juninho to Celtic but I guess you can’t really argue with what McClaren did the next 2 seasons.
Jedi boro
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Yes as I say why sell cattermole then replace him with bates.
indeedido
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Give over man.
Gibson wouldn't pay Schwarzer the going rate, when others were. It was very much a personal intervention.
Bates played about the last 7 or 8 games of the season in centre midfield alongside GoN. We were absolutely terrible.
His performances in the last season with us nowhere near the standard we saw at Fulham. Gibbo may have believed his performances had also dropped so wouldn’t pay him the going rate.
feedthebear
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Lee Dong-Gook.
Just look at the decline since we let him go in 2008. We've never recovered.
Just look at the decline since we let him go in 2008. We've never recovered.
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Badonde
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Losing Cattermole and Boateng in the same close-season was madness.
(I'd need to check exact timings but the transfers felt close together in my head)
A situation compounded when Cattermole came back to play against us for Wigan in 2009 - he was at his most menacing and managed to smash both of Diddy Digards glass knees.
Cattermole intimidated our whole spineless team that day
Didier Digard........ oh my goodness we've made some bad recruitment decisions over the years
(I'd need to check exact timings but the transfers felt close together in my head)
A situation compounded when Cattermole came back to play against us for Wigan in 2009 - he was at his most menacing and managed to smash both of Diddy Digards glass knees.
Cattermole intimidated our whole spineless team that day
Didier Digard........ oh my goodness we've made some bad recruitment decisions over the years
Caesium137
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He was a lovely young lad till his mackem brethren led him astray.....
Caesium137
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Yep we could have had Bamford, Stuani and Traore as a front three
Alwaysaborolad
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Souness.... Big Jack said we were 2 players from challenging for the top of the old Div 1.