| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc 09:21 - Jul 30 with 6486 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 1533 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 1519 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 1509 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 1463 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 1372 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 1346 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 1328 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 1324 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 1303 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 1256 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 1255 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 1162 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 1110 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 1111 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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| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 13:13 - Oct 9 with 663 views | hochiblue |
Jon Samells, Alan Birchenall - both went to Leicester instead (Birchenall told me that Jimmy Bloomfield was more persuasive than the young SBR). Rudd Gullitt came for a look, but we had our quota of overseas players (Muhren and Thyson). Paul Gascoigne came as a youngster but didn’t sign.
On the other hand, Beattie was supposed to sign for Liverpool but nobody met him at the station so he came to us instead. Mariner was very close to signing for WHU. Ron Greenwood was apparently hacked off at SBR for stealing him. Swings and roundabouts! | | | |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 14:52 - Oct 9 with 575 views | Radlett_blue |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 19:08 - Jul 30 by norfsufblue |
Weren't we waiting for a fee from Man City for Tony Vaughan? |
Yes, we had agreed the fee with Watford & the contract with Phillips. But we couldn't commit to the deal until the tribunal said how much Man City had to pay us for Tony Vaughan, which turned out to be £1.35m. Phillips cost Sunderland only £325,000 up front, plus add-ons. | |
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| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 14:58 - Oct 9 with 564 views | swede |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 13:13 - Oct 9 by hochiblue |
Jon Samells, Alan Birchenall - both went to Leicester instead (Birchenall told me that Jimmy Bloomfield was more persuasive than the young SBR). Rudd Gullitt came for a look, but we had our quota of overseas players (Muhren and Thyson). Paul Gascoigne came as a youngster but didn’t sign.
On the other hand, Beattie was supposed to sign for Liverpool but nobody met him at the station so he came to us instead. Mariner was very close to signing for WHU. Ron Greenwood was apparently hacked off at SBR for stealing him. Swings and roundabouts! |
We missed out on Jon Sammels twice. He was born in Ipswich, lived in Grundisburgh and went to Farlingaye school in Woodbridge. At 16 years old he was picked up by Arsenal. | | | |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 15:14 - Oct 9 with 523 views | Perublue |
Shola Ameobi … super Jim wanted him but I think it was the medical that turned him down rather than the player who was up for it. |  |
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| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 15:15 - Oct 9 with 517 views | vapour_trail |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 12:56 - Jul 30 by ITFC_Forever |
Thought we couldn’t agree a few with Watford, so Sheepy said we’d go to a tribunal.
Only problem was we were already going to tribunal for the sale of Tony Vaughan to Man City, and the League rules were such that you could only have one tribunal pending at a time.
As soon as Phillips left ITFC grounds, his agent called him to say Sunderland had agreed a fee with Watford and he drove straight there from us. |
He could have at least mentioned to Andy Carroll that it’s not that far a drive. |  |
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| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 15:21 - Oct 9 with 496 views | Pinewoodblue |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 10:39 - Jul 30 by bobbyramsey |
Kevin Phillips was very close to signing wasn't he? |
Mum understanding was we couldn’t agree a fee and Sheepy wasn’t prepared to risk the transfer panel setting a fee higher than we were prepared to pay. |  |
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| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 16:09 - Oct 9 with 423 views | ford6600 |
Chris Woods? Was SBR interested but we had PC and he finally went to Carrow Road | | | |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 19:54 - Oct 9 with 285 views | VanSaParody |
Ruud Gullit |  | | |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 20:25 - Oct 9 with 249 views | VanSaParody |
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Angelos Charisteas | | | |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 21:16 - Oct 9 with 197 views | mellowblue |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 12:56 - Jul 30 by ITFC_Forever |
Thought we couldn’t agree a few with Watford, so Sheepy said we’d go to a tribunal.
Only problem was we were already going to tribunal for the sale of Tony Vaughan to Man City, and the League rules were such that you could only have one tribunal pending at a time.
As soon as Phillips left ITFC grounds, his agent called him to say Sunderland had agreed a fee with Watford and he drove straight there from us. |
it was only the matter of 50 grand they were haggling over. But if we had bought him. DJ and possibly Marcus Stewart might never have joined the club. | | | |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 23:03 - Oct 9 with 115 views | mellowblue |
| Famous U turns from players who have turned down Itfc on 09:30 - Jul 30 by _clive_baker_ |
Sean Derry. That was basically a done deal, Keane was fuming. |
That was a big loss, not a great player but would have provided the leadership and heart and glued the team together | | | |
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