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Drogba and Crouch

Drogba and Crouch

I bet there's loads of tales like this that we'll never know about, money talks at the end of the day. It's a bit like me enquiring about buying a Ferrari when I've only got a budget for a Fiat Punto.
 
In fairness both could have been realistic at the time in terms of wages.

Crouchy won't have been on mega bucks at QPR, whilst Drogba was just a lower league player in France - wouldn't have been on anything daft either.
 
If you recall at the time, PNE were very very strongly linked with a striker from the French club, Troyes.

I honestly cannot remember the strikers name but he looked a unit. Think the fee was around the £500k mark iirc.
 
Michael said:
Was there any truth in the Forlan rumour that used to do the rounds?
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Yes, they had a video of him and the fee was £700k which the club under Moyes and Kelham deemed "too much" for an unheard of South American with only video to back up his abilities.

A year or so later, he joins United for £7.5m.

Doh!!
 
Didn’t Moyes try to sign Neil Harris from Millwall? One thing to Moyes credit is that he seemed to attract players who wanted to play for him, and attract interest from unlikely quarters. Ie Money wasn’t everything-
 
twickerspne said:
Didn’t Moyes try to sign Neil Harris from Millwall? One thing to Moyes credit is that he seemed to attract players who wanted to play for him, and attract interest from unlikely quarters. Ie Money wasn’t everything-
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We bid £3m and got turned down.

We then went and signed Healy for £1.5m.
 
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