If you could rewind the clock and stop your club from signing specific players or if you could call your gaffer and ask him to sign someone, who would it be? Hopefully we could keep this as realistic as possible and not go into the fantasy realms.

I'll start it off...


Call Sir Alex Ferguson to sign:
- van der Sar in 1999
- Wesley Sneijder in 2008 [could have been our Scholes]
- Fernando Torres [Ferguson thought he wouldn't make it consistently]
- Laurent Blanc [if we could have signed him earlier, I would have!]
- Pavel Nedved [one of the classiest players ever to play, heard we had money to sign him but opted not to , if Fergie wanted a new European tactic, would have been perfect]

Call Sir Alex Ferguson to stop from signing:
- Barthez - that gift to Henry. Utter shit of a player. If there is a player I hate, it's him.
- Berbatov - not going to be 30 million well spent regardless of what happens. ZERO resale value and a Veron-esque failure.

Buying or selling Diouf? Because I always liked him. Not one you'd want against you but still.....

and your thoughts on Cisse?

I don't think Batistuta was well suited for the Premier League. Fat Ronaldo on the other hand.....*drool*

There are tons of players that flopped at United. Djemba, Kleberson and everyone but they weren't as significant as the ones I mentioned, I feel.

Reason why I didn't mention Veron is because I felt it was a real eye-opener. I wasn't accustomed to watching Italian football and I really liked him. I remember his role in the 2-0 against Arsenal (IIRC), immense performance. And there was one game in Europe, can't remember which team but he was spraying passes left, right and center. A majestic performance from him - just felt that Fergie was caught in two minds at that time on how to integrate Veron. Right player, wrong time. A lot like Blanc.

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Added on April 8, 2010, 8:41 pmLike I said,I don't watch a lot of Italian football but he never impressed me in the matches I saw. Just the same way Totti has never impressed me.

This post has been edited by kobe8byrant: Apr 8 2010, 08:41 PM

Not a Liverpool fan but I thought Liverpool were daft releasing Neil Mellor from the club. Still remember his goal against Arsenal!

What happened to Faubert? Not sure why Beckham was a bad move for the club as a whole. I mean, wasn't he the reason why Madrid are where they are now commercially? (not intended as a dig)

And I too hoped we had signed him earlier especially how Ferguson Jr recommended him earlier!

and for United,

SIGNING MICHAEL OWEN.

I feel sorry for the lad. Not achieved enough with United to be a legend, not going to be loved by Newcastle after walking away and not going to be received by Liverpool supporters. He's a homeless prick, isn't he?

When he becomes a commentator

MICHAEL OWEN - EX ENGLAND INTERNATIONAL as opposed to EX LIVERPOOL & ENGLAND or something.

This post has been edited by kobe8byrant: Apr 8 2010, 09:31 PM

No United fan would consider Saha as a signing we regret. Great signing, shit luck for him.

Not signing Heinze would have been a blessing in disguise.

Come on guys, we don't need higher powers to flex their muscles here but we sure aren't helping ourselves by acting so immaturely.

Never cross Fergie.

We could have had our second CL as well, perhaps.