One for the teenagers, the significance of Zamora's possible return?

[Megazone]

Bobby Smith did only play 15 games for England.

How many times did Vicente play for Spain?

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Come on Tony, copy George & dig deep, we'll even sing The Gambler in tribute to you, what more can you want!?

 

[chaileyjem]

Bobby Smith did only play 15 games for England.

How many times did Vicente play for Spain?

38 times. More as it turns out than he ended up playing for Brighton in two seasons.

 

[BensGrandad]

I would say signing Bobby Smith was a bigger surprise for us as he played for England in March and signed for us in the summer. That would be like us signing Welbeck if older. BZ good as he was does not compare with what Bobby Smiths position was at the time.

 

[Megazone]

38 times. More as it turns out than he ended up playing for Brighton in two seasons.

but yet Vicente still ended up playing more games for the Albion than Bobby Smith did.

 

[Megazone]

I would say signing Bobby Smith was a bigger surprise for us as he played for England in March and signed for us in the summer. That would be like us signing Welbeck if older.

Didn't Sol Campbell do something similar with Notts County?

 

[GT49er]

but yet Vicente still ended up playing more games for the Albion than Bobby Smith did.

Wish he'd scored as many goals though!

 

[GT49er]

Didn't Sol Campbell do something similar with Notts County?

Edgar Davids trotting out for Barnet was a pretty big thing too!

 

[BensGrandad]

Didn't Sol Campbell do something similar with Notts County?

Edgar Davids trotting out for Barnet was a pretty big thing too!

Neither did it 4months after playing their last international.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Oh another bobby thread..

 

[matbha]

Vicente ahh those were the days,if poyet had played him at shithurst in the first play off match we may of been in the prem now !!

 

[BensGrandad]

Vicente said he was fit for months but not picked perhaps had he been we wouldnt even have needed the play offs.

 

[jay d]

As superb as it would be, Vicente will always be the most astonishingly ambitious signing we've made (post-1985 anyway). Zamora coming would be great but in terms of impact, Vicente and CMS were bigger.

Cms ?

 

[GT49er]

Cms ?

Yes, I wondered about that too!

 

[Lenny Rider]

Cms ?

The beauty of NSC, a healthy debate, when he arrived many of us thought it was a huge signing for the club, but history has proved differently. The player he replaced, Murray, turned out to be one of the biggest mistakes in the club's history whilst many would argue CMS is right up their with Jason Peake and Junior McDougald in the under achievement stakes.
(The teenagers bit was ironic)

 

[JBizzle]

Cms ?

Yeah, I know it's weird having CMS and Vicente in the same sentence and I know Vicente was on a different level in terms of quality, but signing CMS was a real marquee moment for the club. Spending £3.5m on a striker that had just scored 30+ goals was absolutely huge at the time.

 

[jay d]

Yeah, I know it's weird having CMS and Vicente in the same sentence and I know Vicente was on a different level in terms of quality, but signing CMS was a real marquee moment for the club. Spending £3.5m on a striker that had just scored 30+ goals was absolutely huge at the time.

I thought he was better than murray at the time.

 

[Lenny Rider]

I thought he was better than murray at the time.

As did many others. Didn't quite work out in the way we wanted.