| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc 09:21 - Jul 30 with 3570 views | hunty21 |
Just for a bit of fun as my feeling is Hackney will stay at Borough who from memory has turned us down after agreeing deal.
David Nugent , Charlie Austin, Jeffers Huckerby, |  | | |  |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 13:03 - Jul 30 with 647 views | PhilTWTD |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 12:59 - Jul 30 by Battersea_Blue |
Going way back, Pat Jennings |
Think that was the other way around, he wanted to stay living near London and Sir Bobby didn't like the idea. Shilts turned us down around the same time as his move to Forest was already progressing. |  | | |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 13:06 - Jul 30 with 632 views | Guthrum |
Did Jeffers ever agree a deal? I thought he just decided not to sign after being on loan. Tho remember there was a period of uncertainty (or vain hope). |  |
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| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 13:07 - Jul 30 with 624 views | Radlett_blue |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 10:39 - Jul 30 by usm |
Yep thats how I remember it.
The tawt actually signed and then reneged on it.
No idea what compensation we got. |
Crook's contract at Norwich had expired. He signed for Town (the only other club he talked to was Peterborough as his wife didn't want to move house. On the very day, Mike Walker returned to Norwich as manager & explained to him that they'd found a loophole as Norwich still held his registration & persuaded Crook to change his mind. Understandably, Town kicked off about this & I believe we may have been paid some small compensation. |  |
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| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 13:31 - Jul 30 with 578 views | ITFC_Forever |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 13:07 - Jul 30 by Radlett_blue |
Crook's contract at Norwich had expired. He signed for Town (the only other club he talked to was Peterborough as his wife didn't want to move house. On the very day, Mike Walker returned to Norwich as manager & explained to him that they'd found a loophole as Norwich still held his registration & persuaded Crook to change his mind. Understandably, Town kicked off about this & I believe we may have been paid some small compensation. |
Crook signed for us, but asked us to post-date the contract by a week or two so he could get his full wages from Norwich.
He then went back to them and told them what he’d done, so they offered him an improved deal which he signed and was dated the correct date.
When it went to the Football League for investigation, the Norwich contract was deemed to be be the one he had signed first and therefore was the valid one. |  |
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| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 16:24 - Jul 30 with 487 views | Radlett_blue |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 13:03 - Jul 30 by PhilTWTD |
Think that was the other way around, he wanted to stay living near London and Sir Bobby didn't like the idea. Shilts turned us down around the same time as his move to Forest was already progressing. |
We would never have signed Shilton as his wage demands were so high, partly to fund his gambling. Jennings did nearly happen & he would have been a great signing. | |
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| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 16:57 - Jul 30 with 461 views | blueasfook |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 16:24 - Jul 30 by Radlett_blue |
We would never have signed Shilton as his wage demands were so high, partly to fund his gambling. Jennings did nearly happen & he would have been a great signing. |
We could go back in for him now. He can smoke out back with Ashley Young. |  |
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| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 17:08 - Jul 30 with 441 views | MattinLondon |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 12:56 - Jul 30 by PhilTWTD |
We were close to signing Seamus Coleman until Everton came in for him. |
At the same time I think we nearly signed a left midfielder from South America- can’t remember his name but possibly from Venezuela. Don’t think we could get a work permit for him but he went on to play for Celtic - and have a good career with them. |  | | |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 17:08 - Jul 30 with 438 views | hochiblue |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 13:03 - Jul 30 by PhilTWTD |
Think that was the other way around, he wanted to stay living near London and Sir Bobby didn't like the idea. Shilts turned us down around the same time as his move to Forest was already progressing. |
Wasn’t it the legendary £20,000. Jennings wanted that as his signing on fee, Sir Bob thought he meant net which would have meant a gross (nearly)£100,000 at the time. Jennings said in his autobiography he just wanted £20000 gross.
On another issue, he was following my car up Tottenham High Road in his nice Daimler. My nephew waved through our back window, Pat waved back. I have never seen such an enormous hand! | | | |
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| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 17:20 - Jul 30 with 417 views | Jambo |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 17:08 - Jul 30 by MattinLondon |
At the same time I think we nearly signed a left midfielder from South America- can’t remember his name but possibly from Venezuela. Don’t think we could get a work permit for him but he went on to play for Celtic - and have a good career with them. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio_Izaguirre |  | | |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 17:32 - Jul 30 with 370 views | PhilTWTD |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 17:08 - Jul 30 by MattinLondon |
At the same time I think we nearly signed a left midfielder from South America- can’t remember his name but possibly from Venezuela. Don’t think we could get a work permit for him but he went on to play for Celtic - and have a good career with them. |
Think Jim opted against signing him. | | | |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 17:34 - Jul 30 with 367 views | PhilTWTD |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 17:08 - Jul 30 by hochiblue |
Wasn’t it the legendary £20,000. Jennings wanted that as his signing on fee, Sir Bob thought he meant net which would have meant a gross (nearly)£100,000 at the time. Jennings said in his autobiography he just wanted £20000 gross.
On another issue, he was following my car up Tottenham High Road in his nice Daimler. My nephew waved through our back window, Pat waved back. I have never seen such an enormous hand! |
I've not heard that. I can't remember where the info about him not wanting to move location came from, one of the players or staff from that time, though. | | | |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 18:27 - Jul 30 with 277 views | Radlett_blue |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 17:34 - Jul 30 by PhilTWTD |
I've not heard that. I can't remember where the info about him not wanting to move location came from, one of the players or staff from that time, though. |
Jennings said that he was all set to join Town in the summer of 1977, but then Trevor Whymark broke a leg so we wanted to recruit a forward instead. We were well enough stocked with forwards with Geddis coming through so we sold Keith Bertschin to Birmingham for £135,000. Whymark did get injured in pre season & missed the start of the season, so there may be something in it. | |
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| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 19:08 - Jul 30 with 224 views | norfsufblue |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 11:32 - Jul 30 by BlueandTruesince82 |
Yes and no. Came down and had conversations but we couldn't get a deal agreed and Sunderland phoned and offered what he wanted and that was that.
We should have got that deal done but he didn't pull out, nothing got agreed, were being too tight |
Weren't we waiting for a fee from Man City for Tony Vaughan? |  | | |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 19:09 - Jul 30 with 224 views | Steve_M |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 17:32 - Jul 30 by PhilTWTD |
Think Jim opted against signing him. |
Yeah, I remember him pointing this out to FJ on Twitter well after the event. |  |
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