laticdickovarmy Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Morning guys, Well what a weekend, can honestly say that the feel good factor is surely back if only for a little while! Now this weeks question would been easy to just talk about our greatest comeback but..... decided to go for a different theme The ONE that got away Who is the one player who we so nearly captured but lost out on at the last minute, can be a youth team player like Micah Richards or a player that we honestly thought we were going to get who then slipped through our fingers at the last min Would be nice to get a few from different era as well lads Oh and one last thing get he f##k in there fantastic effort by the lads Sat and surely the stay aways would at least be half tempted to come Tuesday, remember their are golden tickets still avaliable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldhamSheridan Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Sami Hyypia will take some beating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsslatic Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Patrick Berger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruitygoo Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Keith Gumbs... didn't we get told if he'd signed he would have scored for fun? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaticsPete Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 (edited) There was talk that Chris Kamara was going to sign for us from Leeds but at the last minute it fell through. Imre Varadi kept being linked with us and, for a while, Brian Kidd trained with the club but no deal done. Possibly the biggest of bygone years - Wilf Mannion. In Oct 1948 , as Stewart Beckett wrote in "Pine Villa and Oldham Athletic", "shareholders and supporters were asked to help raise part of the £25000 asking price and the 'Mannion Fund' was formed. Athletic's fans hoped the £1500 raised would help the club purchase one of British football's all time greats who had been in dispute with Middlesbrough for some time. Mannion was keen to join Athletic, so much so that one of the Oldham directors fixed him up with a job in the area to help until his dispute with Boro was settled and a deal between the clubs struck". Despite training with Latics in the end he stayed at Boro. Edit : The money from this early one-off Playershare scheme was given to charity in the 50s ! The British transfer fee record at the time was £20500 so the whole episode was an enormously ambitious one. Edited March 5, 2012 by LaticsPete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafcprozac Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 (edited) David Batty, a deal was in place in October 1988 with the combative midfielder set to follow the well trodden path of Andy Linighan, Denis Irwin, Tommy Wright and Andy Ritchie amongst others. Then Billy Bremner gets the boot, Howard Wilkinson comes in and immediately vetoes any outgoing transfers until he assesses the squad. So Batty stays put, is involved in transfers worth millions to Bastard Roves, Newcastle then back to Leeds. Latics decide to take another look at injury plagued youngster Nick Henry…..didn't turn out so bad did it? The following summer club captain John Kelly is sold to Walsall, Henry takes his place….missing only a handful of games as his partnership with Mike Milligan became THE CM partnership of the season, making a right old mug of England's first-choice pairing of Neil Webb and Bryan Robson at Maine Road during the first FA Cup Semi-Final at Maine Road as the team narrowly missed out on the Second Division Play Offs, yet reached the Littlewoods Cup Final and an FA Cup Semi-Final. Another one? After losing Ron Futcher to Bradford in the spring of 1987, Royle signed Andy Ritchie the following summer but Stitch lacked Big Ron's physical presence. A deal was agreed to sign George Reilly from West Brom, Reilly travelled to BP underwent a medical but stalled on personal terms. The deal collapsed and the following day Royle had signed Frank Bunn from Hull City…... Edited March 5, 2012 by oafcprozac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafcprozac Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 There was talk that Chris Kamara was going to sign for us from Leeds but at the last minute it fell through. Imre Varadi kept being linked with us and, for a while, Brian Kidd trained with the club but no deal done. Possibly the biggest of bygone years - Wilf Mannion. In Oct 1948 , as Stewart Beckett wrote in "Pine Villa and Oldham Athletic", "shareholders and supporters were asked to help raise part of the £25000 asking price and the 'Mannion Fund' was formed. Athletic's fans hoped the £1500 raised would help the club purchase one of British football's all time greats who had been in dispute with Middlesbrough for some time. Mannion was keen to join Athletic, so much so that one of the Oldham directors fixed him up with a job in the area to help until his dispute with Boro was settled and a deal between the clubs struck". Despite training with Latics in the end he stayed at Boro. Edit : The money from this early one-off Playershare scheme was given to charity in the 50s ! The British transfer fee record at the time was £20500 so the whole episode was an enormously ambitious one. Didn't we make an enquiry for George Best in '74? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafcmetty Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Ian Thomas-Moore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafcprozac Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Ian Thomas-Moore The Austrian lad who turned us down the same day as Daddy's Boy….Idrizaj? Since passed away? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldhamSheridan Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 M1 Bignot... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GravityGrave Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Clyde second time round Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24hoursfromtulsehill Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Patrick Berger. http://www.owtb.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=4525&view=&hl=&fromsearch=1 All-time classic bollocks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsslatic Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 http://www.owtb.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=4525&view=&hl=&fromsearch=1 All-time classic bollocks. Twas a fun afternoon though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laticdickovarmy Posted March 6, 2012 Author Share Posted March 6, 2012 To be fair we probably have had a few lucky escapes as well players who were on the brink of signing went elsewhere and actually turned out to be crap i mean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schlieb Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Heffernan? When he snubbed us right at the last minute. Turned pretty crap after that though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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