Which Football Transfer did you become most obsessed with?

Red Daz · Aug 28, 2020

Van nistelrooy, Id been watching him for a while on Eurosport European highlight shows for ages praying we’d sign him, then suddenly we were in for him, I was beyond excited, then I woke up and switched on SSN , he’d had a major injury on a knee we had flagged up in a medical, move on hold , gutted was an understatement, all ended well in the end

Ronaldinho was the other , i was seeing teletext in my sleep

Green_Red · Aug 28, 2020

I remember trying to sign Ruud being a fairly long process. Worth the wait.

MrSingh2002 · Aug 28, 2020

Thiago, Strootman and Kroos. The Moyes days we're BRUTAL.

The hope killed us.

BorisManUtd · Aug 28, 2020

Sergio Ramos in 2015, was always unrealistic but still...

Thiago saga was just cruel, actually that whole summer. Thiago, Fabregas, Herrera, there were even rumours of Ozil. In the end we signed Fellaini in last hours of window. Dreadful summer and season as well.

United58 · Aug 28, 2020

MaxiPaxi said:
This thread is like being on a diet and talking about all the finest food you’ve ever ate. Or nearly ate.

it's like reminiscing over our exes. Love thinking what could have been... So many, Hazard, Sneijder, Bale (2013)... then think of what we actually signed :lol:

Paxi · Aug 28, 2020

United58 said:
it's like reminiscing over our exes. Love thinking what could have been... So many, Hazard, Sneijder, Bale (2013)... then think of what we actually signed

Yes it is. It’s not good for your mental health. :lol:

GDaly95 · Aug 28, 2020

I cited it a while back as a heartbreaking saga and got some responses saying it didn't exist, leading me to wonder if I was insane..

But for me, Benzema.

Bilbo · Aug 28, 2020

Showing my age slightly here, but the first one I recall being really upset about missing out on was Paul Gascoigne. Alan Shearer springs to mind too. Both were back when we got our rumours from the papers, but Shearer especially looked like a certain transfer at the time.

IrishMcD · Aug 28, 2020

Haha a strange one for me, but it was Salas!! And then Ruud. Couldn’t believe it when his transfer fell through the first time due to injury

Zen86 · Aug 28, 2020

Ronaldinho and Sneijder

Tiber · Aug 28, 2020

#Pogback was 1000+ pages of quality content

Chief123 · Aug 28, 2020

LawCharltonBest said:
Thought we could reminisce for a few weeks, until United realise there is a transfer window active and panic bid for Fellaini on October 5th.

Ronaldinho for me.

I was on teletext 303 every day, several times a day, genuinely believing the announcement that he'd signed was going to break any second.

And then I remember seeing this as the main headline on BBC teletext and I thought he'd signed...

RONALDINHO CHOOSES MAN UTD

Oh...

Ronaldinho and Alan Shearer were pretty intense and incredibly heart breaking. Robben was a knife to the heart as well especially as he was at Old trafford the day before signing for Chelsea.

I’d say Pogba and Sancho have been the longest and most painful. Since the age of the internet, these sagas are a lot more mentally draining and exhausting due to social media and 145 twitter accounts who all know more shit than the other one.

I’ve actually refused to watch any Sancho compilation videos for a few weeks now as it just adds to the pain of potentially missing out on him. Even though I feel it’ll still happen, I just don’t want to increase the anxiety levels of looking at a beauty I can’t get my hands on yet.

united_99 · Aug 28, 2020

Hazard. That saga got me actually to this forum. I was googling to find the most recent updates and somehow found this forum. I joined the forum a few weeks later.
What I particularly liked about the muppetry was
1.) Hazard’s kid wearing blue and people taking it as a sign that he was joining City
2.) Him announcing he was joining the Champions of Europe and some United fans still claiming “well could still be us as he didn’t say he was joining the Champions of Europe 2012”

Paul_Scholes18 · Aug 28, 2020

Fellaini! At first I thought it was a joke just based on the fact he used to play under Moyes.
Then I realized it was our backup plan to sort out the midfield and we got him in the end.
What is even more funny is that Moyes tried to use him as a deep creative midfielder rather than hoof it long towards him or use him at the end of crosses.

fergies coat · Aug 29, 2020

Thiago for me. I was so sure we'd get him.

I remember being linked to Patrick Kluivert who I was a massive fan of, then in the same summer we signed Dwight Yorke. I was massively disappointed. It didn't turn out to badly though did it.

RedDevilCanuck · Aug 29, 2020

Berbatov. Ups and downs all summer. Went down to the last second.

Pogba. Roller coaster ride of updates and tweets.

Irrational. · Aug 29, 2020

LawCharltonBest said:
Thought we could reminisce for a few weeks, until United realise there is a transfer window active and panic bid for Fellaini on October 5th.

Ronaldinho for me.

I was on teletext 303 every day, several times a day, genuinely believing the announcement that he'd signed was going to break any second.

And then I remember seeing this as the main headline on BBC teletext and I thought he'd signed...

RONALDINHO CHOOSES MAN UTD

Oh...

This brings back cruel memories.

Luke1995 · Aug 29, 2020

The Sanchez one, I remember googling ''Sanchez transfer update'' every hour in hopes of finding out if he was going to join us or City. When it was finally announced he was coming here, remember feeling a huge relief... ''Alright, we beat them, we'll get stronger and they won't be able to build on what they already have...they needed him! Good one, Woodward '' If only I could know what was going to happen next...

Tiber · Aug 29, 2020

Luke1995 said:
The Sanchez one, I remember googling ''Sanchez transfer update'' every hour in hopes of finding out if he was going to join us or City. When it was finally announced he was coming here, remember feeling a huge relief... ''Alright, we beat them, we'll get stronger and they won't be able to build on what they already have...they needed him! Good one, Woodward '' If only I could know what was going to happen next...

Funny, that was the one big name transfer I could never get excited about. Felt like we signed him just because we could.

Certainly didn't expect him to be terrible though

Luke1995 · Aug 29, 2020

Tiber said:
Funny, that was the one big name transfer I could never get excited about. Felt like we signed him just because we could.

Certainly didn't expect him to be terrible though

In hindsight, did the club overpay for him ? Not sure if City planned on paying around the same fee. Was the price inflated ?

The Boy · Aug 29, 2020

Vidal was the one I enjoyed most on the caf. Remember someone writing a story about Ed rolling up to Juve in leathers slapping down a pile of cash and shooting the place up then leaving with Vidal on the back of his Harley.

MrMarcello · Aug 29, 2020

Essien

manutddjw · Aug 29, 2020

Hazard. But we have our principles and Ashley Young was a good squad player and if we disagreed with that we should feck off and go support Real Madrid.

Chief123 · Aug 29, 2020

Bilbo said:
Showing my age slightly here, but the first one I recall being really upset about missing out on was Paul Gascoigne. Alan Shearer springs to mind too. Both were back when we got our rumours from the papers, but Shearer especially looked like a certain transfer at the time.

Shearer was gut wrenching because I remember waking up the morning the headline broke and checking teletext to see the headline something like "Man Utd agree a fee for Alan Shearer". And then to see him go to Newcastle just days later was absolutely brutal. I was dreaming of Shearer and Cantona winning the European cup for us the next season!

Mibabalou · Aug 29, 2020

altodevil said:
SneijderCaf

We made a whole other website for this one!!!

The other one that hurt was griezmann / hazard.

Jonnymufc · Aug 29, 2020

I think this thread is the right time to say it. I'm a total transfer window hussy.

I don't spend too much time on the caf when the actual football is being played but I'm all over it in the summer. All in all, I think I'm a pretty pure Muppet.

Greatest saga has to be Pogba cos actually we got him after a truly epic thread. That announcement vid

Thiago/Vidal were similarly epic but unsuccessful...where will Sancho end up...

ayushreddevil9 · Aug 29, 2020

Pogba. The prospect of getting one of the best midfielders in the world and with Utd having no proper midfielder since don't know when, I was deeply imvested in that saga.

Bondi77 · Aug 29, 2020

I really wanted Sanchez when he was at Udinese and he said he was a Utd fan and then he went to Barca;
That pissed me off and then him going to Arsenal and us getting Di Maria pissed me off again.
I knew when we eventually got him it was all a little too late.

Flying_Heckfish · Aug 29, 2020

Shearer proabably.

If we had the caf back then :lol:

Caf sagas: Sneijder

Klopper76 · Aug 29, 2020

Not a player but the Klopp to Liverpool rumours just after Rodgers was sacked got me hooked. I was reading Twitter every day hoping for confirmation.

I was assuming it was going to be Ancelotti but I wanted Klopp.

ChaddyP · Aug 29, 2020

Was obsessed with vidal transfer. Not thiago.. Though that was quite entertaining, not Ronaldinho or sneijder or even pogba. Vidal I literally lived in the thread and basically couldn't function. Waiting on news from England... Then Italy... Then fecking south America... Every day..

carvajal · Aug 29, 2020

Without a doubt Karembeu. It was a very long signing. Countless covers in Marca, which I bought faithfully every day during the summer.
One of them, one of the most mythical, with Karembeu behind a fence and the text "SOS, Karembeu screams freedom" :lol:

It had everything, even Barcelona meddling with an agreement with Sampdoria.
In the end, without so many options to watch international football, we thought we were signing Maradona.

AsonUnique · Aug 29, 2020

Lucas Moura and Hazard were when I was getting into the muppetry, would have loved to see them under SAF even if it would have been a short time.

Thiago really hurt.

RashyForPM · Aug 29, 2020

Jadon Sancho. This deal, if it goes through, will help to majorly shape our future over the next 10 years and beyond.

fen4e · Aug 29, 2020

The Boy said:
Vidal was the one I enjoyed most on the caf. Remember someone writing a story about Ed rolling up to Juve in leathers slapping down a pile of cash and shooting the place up then leaving with Vidal on the back of his Harley.

Oh man, do I miss the photopshop threads from back in the day.

I remember Vidal had some good ones :lol:

DON’T PANIC ™ · Aug 29, 2020

Sneijder, Thiago, Vidal, Fabinho and now Sancho.

Wesley in particular was mental. When you reach the stage that you’re obsessing over tweets from the guy’s wife looking for hints, you know you need help.

United58 · Aug 29, 2020

GDaly95 said:
I cited it a while back as a heartbreaking saga and got some responses saying it didn't exist, leading me to wonder if I was insane..

But for me, Benzema.

Benzema was real, as far back as 2007!! I remember we played Lyon in the CL, and there was news about the president being adamant that one of his legs were worth £50m

Himannv · Aug 29, 2020

David Villa

EDIT: and Torres as well when we linked.

kafta · Aug 29, 2020

Thiago and Vidal. Cant believe we didnt sign at least one of those two.

Sassy Colin · Aug 29, 2020

I have only once become fully invested in a transfer saga on here, must have been my 1st RedCafe transfer window.

It's too embarrassing to admit who the player was.

Never again.

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