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Rivals you've been jealous of, when you've.

compared your own team's equivalent purchase?

I can think of 2 immediately.

Chelsea signed Paul Furlong in 1994. I understood the reasons. He'd had a good goals return at Watford. He was English in the days when there clubs were restricted to naming 3 "foreigners" in the match day squad for European competition.

Spurs signed Klinsmann. To say i was envious, just about covers it. In fact it took me till we got Ruud Gullit to get over that envy.

Chelsea signed Fernando Torres.

Liverpool had signed Saurez. We were constantly getting linked with him leading up to the 2010 World Cup. I liked what i saw in that World Cup. I was jealous, especially as i was against the Torres purchase.

posted on 22/6/16

City Aguero tops most list I guess..I was also disappointed when Chelsea got Hazard after years of rumours about him coming to Arsenal..Yeah we got Gervinho instead

posted on 22/6/16

Not signings but those that slipped through our fingers and were British. Harry Kane & Garath Bale.

comment by polloks (U2971)

posted on 22/6/16

are you a pretend journalist?

i don't get it why do you make this stuff up?

posted on 22/6/16

Yaya Toure to City - The search for Vieira's successor has been painful.

Falcao to United - Most Arsenal fans will agree that was a painful moment given United had so many options in attack and we settled for Welbeck. Hindsight is beautiful though

Martial to United - Another bit of nostalgia as the search for the next Henry continues. I hate watching him play for United, he's a Wenger type of project it pains me

Hazard - Chelsea - Obviously

Heung-Son Min - One of my favourite signings on FM hated the fact it became an impossibility when he moved
to that lot

Pep Guardiola - City - Will never be able to get over this one unless he proves his philosophies don't work in the PL but I doubt that

posted on 22/6/16

I second the Martial comment. He would have been perfect for us. Wenger saw him first hand and chose not to act.

posted on 22/6/16

Yaya Toure must be the single biggest miss for Arsenal over the past 8 or 9 years in terms of what a difference he could have made - particularly as we wanted him before he went to Barcelona for about £5m.

Wenger would probably have had 2 or 3 more league titles to his name had we got him back in 2006.

comment by MBL. (U6305)

posted on 22/6/16

Hasn't Wenger nearly signed every top player in history?

posted on 22/6/16

Signed by Barça:

Maradona, Romario, Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Neymar and Suárez.

Allowing them to sign Eto'o probably pi$$ed me off the most though.


To Atlético:

Kiko, Vieri

posted on 22/6/16

We had a £49m bid rejected for Godin and Aguero in the January transfer window that we signed Torres and Luiz for combined £70m+ in 2011. This is more hindsight but how I wished we'd pushed for Godin and Aguero with 70m+ bids instead!

Recent one is Renato Sanches? Expensive yes but, with our links to the likes of Naingollan, I feel Sanches would've been perfect for us. Energetic, stamina, call carrier, and good technical ability. Would compliment Fabregas in a 3 man midfield. But, with 10 years over Naingollan he'd be someone we can really build our midfield around long term. In Sanches' case I feel it'd be better for his career to go to a team like us where he'd start and be pretty vital then to Bayern (see Thiago, though injuries haven't helped).

posted on 22/6/16

Laudrup must be the biggest cock-up LFC ever made. As a teenager I remember watching him and thinking how stupid LFC were for letting him go.

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