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Players we 'nearly' signed

meldrew66
meldrew66 Posts: 2,576
edited March 2013 in General Charlton
I was just watching AddickFC81's post of the Charlton V Sunderland 4-4 Playoff Final and pondering over how great kevin Phillips might have been in a Charlton shirt and left me wondering how close (if ever) we got to signing him. Anyone know? Who else were we truly close to signing in the past?

.............I recall we went after Stanley Matthews (who the board declined because he was 'too old' and went on to play for another decade at the top level) and also Kevin Keegan (at the time we went on to sign Alan Simonsen).............who else???
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  • meldrew66
    meldrew66 Posts: 2,576
    ........wasn't there also a rumour that Teddy Sheringham was buying a house in Danson Road linked to signing for Charlton at the time he eventually signed for Pompey?
  • I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY
    I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY Posts: 4,619
    Steven Pressley
  • johnnybev1987
    johnnybev1987 Posts: 11,460
    Wow i swear we get this thread every week...
  • I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY
    I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY Posts: 4,619
    we do
  • pettgra
    pettgra Posts: 1,586
    Mervyn Day was on Talksport recently and stated that Curbs wanted Sidwell and Bullard: however RM told him that he would have to sell first so that was the end of that.I doubt the latter would have passed the medical as I understand Hull never had the time to make him undertake one. If they had I doubt whether they would have signed him.
    Papers stated that Clive Allen had signed and then rocked up at Millwall.
  • redcarter
    redcarter Posts: 1,018
    I remember us being linked in the paper with Ronaldo and Quaresma who subsequently went to United and Barca LOL
  • kitchenchef
    kitchenchef Posts: 208
    Mattheu Flamini
  • Mortimerician
    Mortimerician Posts: 5,222
    dos Santos, the Cost Rican winger that couldn't get a work permit (name escapes me) and the slavic player who was at a Dutch team and ended up disappointing Chelsea (name also escapes me).

    For my other team : the legendary Frank McAvennie turned up at Partick did a press conference, did pictures in the jersey but had to nip oot before signing the contract. He nipped up to Parkhead and signed there. Where he was shite.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,929
    Kezman, Baldock, Gower, Alex Ferguson
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,040
    Didn't Pardew try to sign Edgar Davids in our last year in the Prem?

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  • Ollywozere
    Ollywozere Posts: 1,544
    Eidur Gudjohnsen when we signed Jensen according to Peter Varney last Friday
  • Dizzle
    Dizzle Posts: 5,192
    Tim Cahill
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,796
    Jeremy Goss.
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,794
    Jermaine Defoe..............
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,444
    Jason Puncheon was driving to the ground to sign. Parky told we'd be able to get better when the takeover happened.

    Takeover never happened, Puncheon now playing in the premier league.

    Eubanks-Blake. It was him or Andy Gray but SEB had an outstanding GBH charge so Pardew went with Gray.

    He'd never have formed a partnership with Chris Owelumo anyway : - (
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 8,026
    Flamini had a medical but went to the arse
  • Ormiston_Addick
    Ormiston_Addick Posts: 8,818
    Henry Irving said:

    Jason Puncheon was driving to the ground to sign. Parky told we'd be able to get better when the takeover happened.

    Takeover never happened, Puncheon now playing in the premier league.

    Eubanks-Blake. It was him or Andy Gray but SEB had an outstanding GBH charge so Pardew went with Gray.

    He'd never have formed a partnership with Chris Owelumo anyway : - (

    No, but he would have been great with the other bloke Chris Iwelumo!

    Sorry......:)
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,262
    Cory Gibbs.

    There was talk of him joining us for a couple of years but he never appeared.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,929
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:

    Cory Gibbs.

    There was talk of him joining us for a couple of years but he never appeared.

    likewise Omar Pouso

  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,444
    Ormiston Addick said:

    Henry Irving said:

    Jason Puncheon was driving to the ground to sign. Parky told we'd be able to get better when the takeover happened.

    Takeover never happened, Puncheon now playing in the premier league.

    Eubanks-Blake. It was him or Andy Gray but SEB had an outstanding GBH charge so Pardew went with Gray.

    He'd never have formed a partnership with Chris Owelumo anyway : - (

    No, but he would have been great with the other bloke Chris Iwelumo!

    Sorry......:)
    LOL, he wasn't a bad player either : - )

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  • Red_Raver
    Red_Raver Posts: 468
    Overmars
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,040
    Surprised no one has mentioned Julian Gray,Hayden Mullins and Darren Purse.
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,404
    Julian Gray, I'm sure he played on trial for in a friendly at QPR.
  • Mortimerician
    Mortimerician Posts: 5,222
    Mikhalichenko (sp) Nicola Berti - pair of faded internationals that washed up in trials.
  • CAFCBourne
    CAFCBourne Posts: 3,815
    Don Hutchinson came very close according to him
  • JaShea99
    JaShea99 Posts: 5,497
    Kezman
    Alex
  • bobcafc7
    bobcafc7 Posts: 447
    J. Hartson failed a medical
  • queensland_addick
    queensland_addick Posts: 7,584
    Micky Droy, John Aloisi
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    Callumcafc Posts: 64,255
    Javier Saviola

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