From Socceroos star Aaron Mooy at Manchester City to serial Chelsea loanee turned Serie A sensation Mario Pasalic, HITC Sevens takes a look at a number of footballers who signed for clubs but never played for them.
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Zé Roberto Never played for Nacional in Uruguay. But he signed for them in 2006 and was loaned out 2 or 3 times
Filipe luis
Where is Robert Jarni to COVENTRY???
John Obi Mikel and Willian are both Chelsea legends, both for their playing abilities, sure, but also because they gave the cold shoulder to both Man Utd and Spurs respectively.
My first thought was Clive Allen. Bought and sold by Arsenal in the summer of 1980.
I can’t stand the fact that your tunnel vision mak3s every video the exact same. BPL is not the only league in the world. My lord
Like your videos but please consider making them a bit shorter.
Theres gotta be a bunch of keepers this applies to
Hahaha. How you destroyed Roman at the beginning xD
1:26 legend😂
11:16 wasnt he good?
Why wasn't Drexler here.
He was with Kiel Wanted to go to Köln but the team sold him to a team in Sweden so from there he went to Köln.
This used to be a tactic employed by Rangers and Celtic in Scotland. As soon as a player started to make a name in a competing club, one of the Old Firm would sign him just to remove him from the competition. It totally ruined football in Scotland.
Szobozlai
Get it up ye mooy rangers were the 1st team looking at him and he picked them instead your loss
I'm sorry but I'll never understand why the UK have to scour places like Nigeria for football talent when there must be kids worth developing at home, even if not quite the same standard yet (I don't really believe that) but being teenagers time is on their side to develop. Has to be something to do with global marketing and moneymaking…
I'm an aston villa fan and David Unsworth was regularly subjected to the "does your missus know youre here "when he went back to everton
Robert Jarni should get a mention, my club Coventry signed him from Real Betis In the summer of 98, we were in Menorca when he signed, by the end of the fortnight he'd signed for Real Madrid, blatantly dirty deal between us and RM as RB wouldn't sell to them.
Cloughy had form for buying players and never playing them. Gary Megson and John Sheridan were two such bewildered signings.
I have so many players who didnt play a single match with their teams.
I will just say one,Richard Wright. Four Seasons in Man City.
I dont know if he played in friendlies games or summer competitions, but never in competitive games.
That one prospect on my career team that has never touched the field.
Robert Jarni, signed by Coventry in 98 for £2.6m from Betis and a week later sold to Real Madrid for £3.4m before the season had started. Good bit of business for Coventry but disappointing for the fans as he was an exciting signing. And obviously a shady deal as Betis wouldn’t sell to Real.
What about Howard Webb for Man Utd 😂😂
I'd love to hear what u think of Newcastles new owners or FIFA for taking the WC to the arsehole of the world, Qatar
None of this players match Samuele Longo. This guy was promoted to Inter Milan in 2012 and played only one match, at UEFA Europa League 2012-13. Since that match, from season 2012-13 to 2020-21, HE WAS LOANED TO 11 DIFFERENT TEAMS. Inter decided to transfer him to L. R. Vincenza (currently on Serie B) on the 2020-21 season
Peter Beardsley was a famous player who signed for a club he never played for (Manchester United)
Manchester City signed Luke Brattan and Adrian Caceres from the A-league. Everyone in Australia knew they were never going to play a single game for Man City.
Brattan went on loan to Bolton, and Man City's sister club, Melbourne City. He now plays for Sydney FC.
Caceres was the strangest signing by Man City, he was just an average midfielder when signed by Man City, he went on loan to Melbourne City and then Sydney FC.
Weird signings.
Clive Allen was Arsenal's record transfer buy in the summer of 1980, but before the 1980-81 season had begun, Allen was sold to Crystal Palace. Both the buy and sell fees were in excess of £1m (but the sell fee was confused by backup goalie Paul Barron also joining Palace), and Arsenal use the fee from Palace to purchase Kenny Sansom (who unlike Clive Allen, did play for Arsenal!) It's commonly believed bad blood between QPR and Palace prevented a direct deal between the club's for Allen so Arsenal was used as a surrogate business partner to effect the deal!