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Who is the most random player you have seen us linked with?

Swisdom
Swisdom Posts: 14,977
edited November 2008 in General Charlton
For me I think it's Bosman...I am sure as a kid we were interested in signing him (before he changed the face of world football)

Failing that I was always surprised when we were linked with Javier Portillo
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  • Tommy Dowling
    Tommy Dowling Posts: 385
    Morientes, just cos he was pictured in a Charlton shirt at Joma kit launch.
  • adamtheaddick
    adamtheaddick Posts: 8,664
    Alex the japanese brasilian left sided midfielder.
  • addick1965
    addick1965 Posts: 5,092
    Another one with work permit problems
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,671
    Has to be Simonsen.

    He was arguably in the top 10 players in the world at the time andgiven the number of "false dawns" it seemed a far fetched fantasy.

    Amazingly though he arrived eventually and was sheer class, too good for some of our players at the time who simply couldn't "read" his intentions.
  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 12,005
    Steve Portway?
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,180
    [cite]Posted By: Valley11[/cite]Steve Portway?

    That was in Jonathan Ackworths mind...
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,448
    edited November 2008
    Steady - there's NOTHING in Acworth's mind.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,180
    edited November 2008
    Good point Leroy.
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,962
    Chris Dickson ....... or Dickie Dickie Dickie Plumb, from Yeovil.

    Or that Gary Churchouse or Churchyard or whatever his name was.
    Nobody remembered to include him amongst the obscure and useless?
  • 2nd Division & Proud
    2nd Division & Proud Posts: 122
    I was going to say Simonsen - even to this day I still cn't believe it really hapened ;)

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  • WhenIwasLittleBoy
    WhenIwasLittleBoy Posts: 5,430
    Marc Overmars, never forget an articale (i think it was the Sunday Mirror) that they run about all the players we were set to sign due to the amount we had from the parker sale, and the position money we had recieved, the names on the list were amazing.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,271
    I was pretty shocked when we signed Di Canio

    And Rommedahlia for that matter, he was quality in euro 2004
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    Simo for me too...total class that man
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,288
    Adrian Mutu - were going to have a half share with Inter.
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,079
    Ronaldo was going to come on loan post injury when we signed that really productive deal with Inter Milan i seem to remember
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,288
    Samuel E'to was going to sign (no really) but then broke his leg so could fly over. Something to do with his academy in Cameroon rather than playing first team football.

    Last really "wow, he's playing for us!" moment was Mendonca. Knew we had a real chance of going up with him in the side.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,640
    Martyn Waghorn.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,256
    Jason Brown
  • ChicagoAddick
    ChicagoAddick Posts: 4,398
    Has to be Simmo or some those Inter stars that were going to fly over here on economy to join a club they had never heard off.
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,123
    Wasn't Gabriel Batistuta linked with us once?
    [cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]Adrian Mutu - were going to have a half share with Inter.

    I thought were were supposed to be having a half share in Milan Baros

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  • Barn Door Varney
    Barn Door Varney Posts: 2,000
    edited November 2008
    I seem to recall a stories in a couple of papers about Batistuta coming on loan.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,288
    [cite]Posted By: Valley McMoist[/cite]Wasn't Gabriel Batistuta linked with us once?
    [cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]Adrian Mutu - were going to have a half share with Inter.

    I thought were were supposed to be having a half share in Milan Baros

    I knew Milan was involved somehow :-)
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,288
    Anyone remember when we were going to be taken over by some Dubai based investment group called Zebeel? Whatever happened to that?
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,849
    [cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]Chris Dickson ....... or Dickie Dickie Dickie Plumb, from Yeovil.

    Or that Gary Churchouse or Churchyard or whatever his name was.
    Nobody remembered to include him amongst the obscure and useless?

    Churchouse was a stalwart of my all time worst XI, although his place has been under pressure a couple of times in recent seasons...

    Dickie Plumb was pretty ropey as well although Barry Endean was possibly the worst from that era.

    One that kept coming up a few years back was James Beattie, but I agree with Henry that when Mendonca signed you knew we were onto a winner. We had a sparky from Grimsby believe it or not, who was down testing our kit at work and he said it was all over the local preess that he was Valley bound, this was a couple of weeks before he signed. In CAFC terms, one of those all too rare moments of real excitement.
  • stoneroses19
    stoneroses19 Posts: 7,243
    van nistelrooy
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    La la la Barry En-dean
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,432
    any one good?
  • WhenIwasLittleBoy
    WhenIwasLittleBoy Posts: 5,430
    Richard Wilson from Fulham
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,887
    wasn't guti and someone else from Real Madrid linked with us a few years ago ?
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,902
    Kezman - he even admitted he would probably have to to us for 2 years to prove himself in the Premiership as the big 4 wouldnt come in for him as he hadnt scored in the champions league games he had played in.

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