Most frustrating Transfer Sagas

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Not sure if this is the best place to put it but, it's still a transfer discussion whether it be past/present I suppose...

Which transfer sagas have the media blown up which never occurred?

For me it has to be Sneijder/Vidal and the customary season Ronaldo return.
 
Alcantara. Was looking forward to that signing for a while.
 
Thiago!

De Gea signing that ball, honestly... you won't get a bigger muppet moment than that.
 
Sneijder for sure. Every single day of that summer window I constantly searched for '#Sneijder' on Twitter. So many 'Corriere Del Sport say...' tweets which came to nothing. That was draining.

I also recall Ian McGarry tweeting we'd agreed a fee and I was jubilant... and then nothing prevailed.

We're linked to him every window now. Pretty sure even when he's retired we'll still be linked to him.
 
Thiago was the one that really hurt. He was the perfect fit, and at one point looked absolutely nailed on.
 
'Nos vemos en Manchester'

That bloody football ruined my summer by making me 100% sure the signing was going through.
 
Ander Herrera.

Really wanted him here and to go through all that nonsense with the 3 amigos and then to not get him and end up with Fellaini who I didn't want at all (I've since changed my opinion on him) was probably the worse.
 
Hazard was a bad one. Really thought he would be coming to United and was shocked he chose Chelsea over us. Thiago and Vidal were also pretty bad. Shout out to Fabregas and Lucas too.
 
All of them.

Can't stand transfer windows and all the associated twitter/paper shite that comes with it.
 
I was so sure Thiago was happening that it hurt the most out of all of them. I was never as keen on Sneijder as I was on him.
 
Not quite a saga, but Van Nistelrooy's collapsed move in the summer of 2000 annoyed me for quite some time.
 
Any I have been heavily involved in.
 
Vidal is the only one that really hooked me.
 
Thiago will be hard to beat.
Hazard was a hard one to take as well.
There's been so many!
 
Thiago.. easily.

The Vidal saga was more of a fun ride. Last summers transfer window was so much better than the one before as well. Thiago... that one was painful.
 
I don't think it's been mentioned yet but the Thiago saga really sticks out.
 
I might be one of the first to mention it but the Thiago one was painful.
 
Batistuta for me. And I was only following that through headlines on Teletext phoneline page. Cant complain when we landed Dwight Yorke, though.

The internet explosion has really taken away many hours in a football fans life. Pretty much F5 every 15 seconds during the summer these days.
 
The Fabregas one was annoying. Especially having missed out on Thiago.

Every credible source was saying that it was a no go, yet Moyes and the board kept pursuing it. It made you think that "they must know something we don't" and yet it turned out that they didn't.

The amateurish way that we kept making our bids public added insult to injury.
 
Fellaini, the delay, the inevitability, the clause , the limit date of the clause, the overpayment, the stupid package deal rumors and finally the deadline not knowing if the transfer was homologated.
 
John Obi Mikel, when I finally thought we signed the most promising African talent, we ended up selling him to Chelsea 3 hours later for 12m.

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Who knows what could have been...
 
Ronaldinho must have been something.. Wasn't really around (at the caf) for Hazard or Thiago. Vidal was absolutely devastating for me, wanted him so badly. Spent too much time in that thread.
 
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Kaka, by a million fecking miles. Isco was annoying as well, everything seemed to suggest we'd effectively signed him until Madrid did some last minute Madrid shit.

Adebayor as well for an outgoing transfer, greedy bastard wouldn't leave and then he signed for Spurs on loan and then permanently, all the while we still contributed towards his fecking wages. Can't blame him, to be fair, but still frustrating.
 
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