we were literally milliseconds away from Adam Le Fondre im told.
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we were literally milliseconds away from Adam Le Fondre im told.
Heard a rumour that we had a young Norwegian on trial named Ole Gunner Solskaer who was deemed to small by the management.
Another player who wasn't as big a name as those mentioned but would of been a class player was Jamie Cureton, he was a goal machine wherever he was! Think we tried to get him a few times.
This has all the hallmarks of an Urban Myth.
Lee Power came around March 1997. Trezeguet had five caps and five goals for the French U-21 team that year and played for the full French team the following season. He was playing regularly in the Monaco first team by then and scoring goals. He scored in the Champions' League in November 1997 against Sporting and later in that season at Old Trafford, four in nine CL matches..
Why would the French champions want to loan out a player to Scotland who was on the verge of an international cap?
I don't believe a word of it.
We could have had Jim Baxter for £5000, which wasn't a huge amount even then,during his first season at Raith.
There's definitely truth in it (though Lee Power had nothing to do with anything!).
About 4-5 years ago there was a similar thread on here and there was a link to a story about the Trezeguet thing. I can't remember all the ins and outs, but it outlined clearly the people involved (and how they knew each other) and the reasons why a loan deal was being thought about. IIRC it simply didn't come to anything, but there was no sinister reason for this.
The genius that was Colin Calderwood was told of a 17 year old lad who'd left Ross County to join Liverpool, hadn't settled and had returned north and was playing for Airdrie. CC looked and decided no. The lads name is Gary Mackay-Steven
Williamson was offered Benayoun but turned him down.
Miller watched Platt a number of times. One such time was in a game against Rotherham. Miller liked what he saw in Evans and when the Platt deal failed he spent the dosh on Evans instead. Not quite how you first explained it - Evans being better than Platt in a game which implied that Miller took Evans in preference to Platt.
In any event, Platt would probably have bombed in the heady heights of Scottish football :greengrin
My misinformation came from one of which at that time were half decent newspapers, the Daily Record or Daily Mail. I do remember reading the story. I will accept your version as being factual as we are all aware of the guff spouted by the aforementioned papers. :embarrass
Darren Fletcher
These urban myths always emerge years later. This is rather like the 'swop Bobby Mann for Derek Riordan and Steven Whittakar' nonsense. Yes it was all over here around ten years after the event but not at the time. This is why I do not believe a word.
The Trezuguet rumour never appeared anywhere in the Scottish or French press 1997 or 1998. I used to buy France Football every week in the mid to late 1990s and never saw anything there. It was never flagged up on any of the discussion boards (or email lists back then).
Produce news reports from 1997 or bI will continue to not believe.
As I said, a link was posted at least 5 years ago (I remember where I was living when I read it). I normally take these things with a pinch of salt, but what was written was totally feasible. You can make what you want of all that, but please stop the smart arsed comments which suggest that I'm making stuff up.
I recall speaking to Dougie Crombe about this just around the time he signed for Bari. Between fags Dougie told me that we tried hard to get Platt and had even, tentatively, agreed a fee with Crewe (?) but trying to strike a deal with Platt himself became impossible when Villa came on the scene and DC felt we were being used so that Platt got a better personal deal. Basically whatever we offered Villa offered more. It went on for a wee while till we eventually pulled the plug.
For it to be said that we "lost out" on him is a bit harsh.