Someone asked me about this the other day and I've finally found the list which was up to and including Craig Bryson. I've added to it with the articles I've written for this site that have never been used. These are the signings that I thought were close enough to happening but, ultimately, didn't.

Peter Crouch
Paul Butler
Michael Stewart
Leroy Lita
James Scowcroft
Andy Johnson (midfielder from West Brom, not striker)
Stephen Wright
Andy Griffin
Eric Djemba-Djemba (permanent return)
Jonathan Douglas
Derek Riordan
Alan Gow
Andrew Driver
Darel Russell
Thomas Gravesen
Craig Cathcart
Jack Wilshire
Stuart Holden
Fraser Forster
Danny Drinkwater
Vladimir Weiss
Ryan Shotton
Greg Cunningham
Stephen Dobbie
Nicky Bailey
Harry Kane
Connor Wickham
Craig Bryson
Alex Pritchard
Dale Stephens
Kamil Grosicki
Stéphane Sessègnon
Andrew Robertson
Aaron Lennon

Harry Kane? I'd have been happy with one

Wilshire & Holden....if only

Firthy wrote:Harry Kane? I'd have been happy with one

Kane was around November 2013, potential loan that Spurs scuppered by demanding the earth in a loan payment

Steve1956 wrote:Wilshire & Holden....if only

And we know when they were

Derek Riordan, Alan Gow, Andrew Driver. Thankfully we never saw them here.

ClaretTony wrote:Someone asked me about this the other day and I've finally found the list which was up to and including Craig Bryson. I've added to it with the articles I've written for this site that have never been used. These are the signings that I thought were close enough to happening but, ultimately, didn't.

Peter Crouch
Paul Butler
Michael Stewart
Leroy Lita
James Scowcroft
Andy Johnson (midfielder from West Brom, not striker)
Stephen Wright
Andy Griffin
Eric Djemba-Djemba (permanent return)
Jonathan Douglas
Derek Riordan
Alan Gow
Andrew Driver
Darel Russell
Thomas Gravesen
Craig Cathcart
Jack Wilshire
Stuart Holden
Fraser Forster
Danny Drinkwater
Vladimir Weiss
Ryan Shotton
Greg Cunningham
Stephen Dobbie
Nicky Bailey
Harry Kane
Connor Wickham
Craig Bryson
Alex Pritchard
Dale Stephens
Kamil Grosicki
Stéphane Sessègnon
Andrew Robertson
Aaron Lennon

I thought we had lansbury in the building ? Should he not be on that list ?

Reecey1987 wrote:I thought we had lansbury in the building ? Should he not be on that list ?

He should, as should Graham Dorrans.

They are in the period after I compiled the list and before Up the Clarets.

Ee, look what you could have won.

You really should be less trusting of what you read on Twitter.

Whats paul butler doing these days should get his boot bag dusted down

Be careful Tony

Or we will have to put you in the 'Nixon' forum looking at some of the names on that list

Not forgetting the Lee Trundle saga. Back in the day it was Longer than Game of Thrones, War and Peace and Lord Of The Rings combined.

couple of those may have been written more than once, Driver seem to be a perennially

Bordeauxclaret wrote:You really should be less trusting of what you read on Twitter.

I think the list would be 100 times longer if I took it from Twitter.

I was close to considering an Andone article this window but not Waris. And I did make a start on Ranocchia.

Why would someone prepare articles on players that never signed for Burnley?

I suspect most editors of other forums don't.

Be grateful for what we have

Vladimir Weiss - Whatever happened to him? I remember watching him play for man city (when they were pish) and thinking he was going to make it as one of the best players around.

Clearly, that is why i would never make it as a scout.

Tony

When are you publishing the stories as to why some of them didn't happen.

Would be an interesting read.