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Terrible at diving.

16 minutes ago, DJMortimer said:

 

I've seen Pleat give an account of this elsewhere that was rather more scathing. It went something like Petrescu's agent going in one day and saying that Chelsea had offered three times his current salary and what were we going to do about it? In essence the move was forced against our will in a rather unpleasant manner according to the manager at least. To be fair, rather than criticise the player he was more making the point that the balance of power had shifted, probably irrevocably, in a way that was unfair to clubs. Contrast this with the way Manchester United's interest in David Hirst was handled for example.

I heard him on the radio the other day that suggested the same. Hinted at mafia style tactics almost! 

1 hour ago, NorfolkNChance said:

David Pleat on him …..

 

Petrescu was an outstanding wing-back, the best I ever worked with at timing his charge forward to seize an attacking opportunity with a run inside the opposing full-back. Trevor Francis had signed him for Wednesday but I was more than happy to inherit such a brilliant player. Like several of the outstanding foreign players I have worked with, he was a tremendous trainer. His touch was superb, and he was only very occasionally caught out defensively. Ultimately we lost him to Chelsea. He was swayed by his wife into moving. She apparently preferred shopping at Harrods to Meadowhall, and had decided the travelling from Heathrow to Bucharest was easier than having to get connections to Manchester and on to Sheffield. There was also the salary to take into account, of course, and we eventually conceded to his request.

This in a nutshell is the problem clubs outside of London and to a lesser extent Liverpool / Manchester and Birmingham have...

The Yorkshire, North East, East Midlands clubs have to pay massive salaries to compete... Middlesborough had the same issue at that time when Robson was signing Juninho, Ravanelli etc

19 minutes ago, Owl_For_a_Lifetime said:

This in a nutshell is the problem clubs outside of London and to a lesser extent Liverpool / Manchester and Birmingham have...

 

The Yorkshire, North East, East Midlands clubs have to pay massive salaries to compete... Middlesborough had the same issue at that time when Robson was signing Juninho, Ravanelli etc

Boro signed Juninho and Ravanelli.

We signed Andy Booth.

Think he went to Chelsea for £2.3m, we actually made a £1m profit on him

30 years ago 

1 hour ago, Basement Jack said:

Excellent player who sadly played in the worst Wednesday kit ever 

He didnt play for us this season.

Or any season with THAT name on the front of the shirt come to think of it. 

I remember him playing for Romania with bleached blonde hair 

Brilliant footballer, absolutely ruined by Trevor Francis's lack of tactical knowhow. He was a right-back in name only. He played for Romania (and, later, Chelsea) as a wing-back in a system that gave him the freedom to go forward but Francis thought he was a right-back and played him in a back four with no idea how to structure the rest of the team so he could get forward. So when Forest came to Hillsborough with Collymore and Roy they tore us apart because he was constantly too far up the pitch. Honestly, it was like playing without a right back. And Francis couldn't see it.

1 hour ago, Owly Owl said:

Boro signed Juninho and Ravanelli.

 

We signed Andy Booth.

The season Middlesborough signed those two players they got relegated.
Wednesday finished 7th.

1 hour ago, Baldrick said:

Think he went to Chelsea for £2.3m, we actually made a £1m profit on him

 

30 years ago 

Only one of the few times we actually made a profit on a player