Nearly signed XI

[The Long Suffering One]

Keita Balde
Batshuayi
Crespo

 

[parj]

Deadline Day brings some (great) nostalgia. Who makes it in our nearly signed XI?

My first go considering the last ten years:

----------------------- Butland ??? --------------------- (Have we had a recent transfer saga about a goalie?)
---------------Musacchio-------Skriniar-----------------
---Tomiyasu----------------------------------Coentrao---
----------------Moutinho------Schneiderlin-------------
--------Traore----------Isco------------Villa--------------
------------------------Damiao---------------------------

Who is missing?

Dude, where Rivaldo? I mean he was so close to signing that he sent us a letter turning us down.

 

[fatpiranha]

Tanguy Ndombele was rumoured to have wanted to play for Spurs .

 

[parj]

I’m amazed that you’re the only other person to say Le Tissier. The guy had actually signed for us and we tore up the contract because his wife had a paddy. The entire 90s could’ve been so different, The guy would still waltz into every side in the premier league now.

He was top quality but instead we eventually ended up with Rocket Ronnie Rosenthal

 

[richard_gleeson]

Suarez
Grealish - Dybala - Traore
Van Bommel - Rivaldo
Coentrao - Dias - Skriniar - Aarons
Lopez
​

Needless to say, the team will wear blue & yellow and have only one substitute. Leandro Damiao.

Suarez, Grealish and Skriniar are big ones to miss

 

[carpediem991]

Dude, where Rivaldo? I mean he was so close to signing that he sent us a letter turning us down.

Dude I mentioned that I was looking at the last ten years.

 

[spursfan1976]

Frightening thought, but we were close to signing Charlie Adam from Blackpool at one point, only fell through because no one there to sign it off iirc!

 

[Dannyspur]

Llorente when he was not 30 and past his best?

 

[DiscoD1882]

Dennis Beegkamp

 

[Gassin's finest]

Maradona...

 

[buz]

He was top quality but instead we eventually ended up with Rocket Ronnie Rosenthal

But without that we would never have had that fa cup hat-trick as a sub!