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Articles that weren't published

Post by ClaretTony » Fri Sep 01, 2017 10:10 am

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

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Re: Articles that weren't published

Post by Firthy » Fri Sep 01, 2017 10:12 am

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

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Re: Articles that weren't published

Post by Steve1956 » Fri Sep 01, 2017 10:12 am

Wilshire & Holden....if only :)

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Re: Articles that weren't published

Post by ClaretTony » Fri Sep 01, 2017 10:19 am

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 :D
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Re: Articles that weren't published

Post by Quicknick » Fri Sep 01, 2017 10:22 am

Derek Riordan, Alan Gow, Andrew Driver. Thankfully we never saw them here.
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Re: Articles that weren't published

Post by Reecey1987 » Fri Sep 01, 2017 10:35 am

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 ?

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Re: Articles that weren't published

Post by ClaretTony » Fri Sep 01, 2017 10:37 am

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.

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Re: Articles that weren't published

Post by Funkydrummer » Fri Sep 01, 2017 10:38 am

Ee, look what you could have won. :D

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Re: Articles that weren't published

Post by Bordeauxclaret » Fri Sep 01, 2017 10:39 am

You really should be less trusting of what you read on Twitter.
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Re: Articles that weren't published

Post by Reecey1987 » Fri Sep 01, 2017 10:41 am

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

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Re: Articles that weren't published

Post by iluva64 » Fri Sep 01, 2017 10:44 am

Be careful Tony

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

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Post by mikeS » Fri Sep 01, 2017 10:45 am

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.

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Re: Articles that weren't published

Post by KateR » Fri Sep 01, 2017 10:48 am

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

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Re: Articles that weren't published

Post by ClaretTony » Fri Sep 01, 2017 10:48 am

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. :D

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

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Re: Articles that weren't published

Post by Billyhamilton1982 » Fri Sep 01, 2017 11:49 am

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

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Re: Articles that weren't published

Post by BertiesBeehole » Fri Sep 01, 2017 12:24 pm

I suspect most editors of other forums don't.

Be grateful for what we have
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Re: Articles that weren't published

Post by Foshiznik » Fri Sep 01, 2017 12:27 pm

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.

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Re: Articles that weren't published

Post by HatfieldClaret » Fri Sep 01, 2017 12:37 pm

Tony

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

Would be an interesting read.
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