Players Brighton turned down in past and present, put here who you remember.

[garethjamesuk]

I know some for certain, Roy Keane was one, as i saw in a interview with him a while ago, they asked him have you been turned down by any clubs and he said only one Brighton and he said after that, he hada trial at Notts Forest and rest is history.
Martin Keown.
Who else i cant think of any others now i have put this up, oh yes Kanchelskis hehe but we wanted him so i guess that doesnt count. Be intrested to see others who people know, also who come in then we didnt want, or turned us down etc
But whaever Keane was a big mistake wasnt it, actually didnt Ian Wright come for a trial here ?
imagine if would have kept these players had eg Beasant, Zamora, Knight, Martin Keown, Roy Keane, Gareth Barry, Michael Standing, etc
please add others

 

[fatboy]

Didn't we try and sign Keown but could not afford him?

 

[Bald Gull]

Turned down Ian Wright

 

[Icy Gull]

I vaguely remember hearing that we chose Paul McCarthy instead of Roy Keane and Steve Penney impressed more than Ian Wright when they were both here on trial.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Keane's autobiog has a bit about him and McCarthy coming over for trials with BHA.

 

[trueblue]

Chris Cattlin once said he had talks with Ray Houghton and they had agreed a deal but the club wouldn't stump up the money (we're talking a few thousand for a player who went on to become one of the best midfielders in the country).

 

[Bald Gull]

Chris Cattlin once said he had talks with Ray Houghton and they had agreed a deal but the club wouldn't stump up the money (we're talking a few thousand for a player who went on to become one of the best midfielders in the country).

Yeah, I remember that. I think he said to the board 'if you give me £30k for this player, I guarantee you promotion' but they refused

 

[Gwylan]

I'd heard about Keane and Wright but didn't know about Houghton - what a team we could have had.

Slightly tangential, but I remember Sussex turning down Barry Richards.

 

[BUTTERBALL]

Ade Akinbiyi (before his £5m transfer days). Jimmy case could not afford 50 grand.

Know about Ian Wright and remember the Houghton affair.

Martin Keown was sent back to Arsenal by Chris Cattlin in 1985 before he had made his first team debut there. He played for us for 2 months (including up front).

 

[zefarelly]

Yeah, I remember that. I think he said to the board 'if you give me £30k for this player, I guarantee you promotion' but they refused

nothing much has changed then

I'm sure it happens a lot to many clubs but we've had some right disasters in the past . . . . .Letting John Byrne go was another one, oh, giving Dean Saunders to Oxford as well . . . . both went on to be huge and cost their respective clubs pennies, classic albion business

 

[Rabeen]

Seem to remember reading somewhre that Kevin Keegan was in advanced talks when he returned from Hamburg, but couldn't afford his wage demands at the time...

 

[The Wookiee]

Andy Roberts, we had him on trial at the beginning of the season before last, but he decided to go to Millwall

 

[chips and gravy]

Didn't Mark Walton turn down a new contract and join Cardiff? That left us with a rookie called Kuipers - oh how we struggled

 

[saltash seagull]

Chris Cattlin once said he had talks with Ray Houghton and they had agreed a deal but the club wouldn't stump up the money (we're talking a few thousand for a player who went on to become one of the best midfielders in the country).

at the same time as houghton cattlin tried to sign peter beagrie and not long after both were doing quite well in the top division

it wasn't that we signed mccarthy instead of keane mccarthy's old man or someone very close organised a trial for keane cos they played for the same junior team and were good mates but who ever was in charge didnt think keane was good enough

im not old enough to remember this one but we were in for a young john aldridge either before he joined newport or when he left there for oxford and when les ferdinand was a youngster not getting a look in at qpr he was linked with us but nothing happened and just after he broke in to there 1st team and the rest is history

 

[The Wookiee]

I seem to remember in the late 70's that we were going to sign Tony Currie.

 

[BUTTERBALL]

at the same time as houghton cattlin tried to sign peter beagrie and not long after both were doing quite well in the top division

I remember that. He would have been a great player for us. He was only about 18 at the time.

 

[nutter]

Don't forget Paul Dickov.I think we tried to sign him but it didn't happen.No money.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Paul Kitson

 

[Johners]

Ian Muir scored goals galore for the reserves without getting a look in in the first team. When Frank Worthington left here and went to manage Tranmere, his first signing was Ian Muir, who went on to become Tranmere's record goalscorer.

 

[Ernest]

Andy Roberts, we had him on trial at the beginning of the season before last, but he decided to go to Millwall

Andy Roberts has just been sacked by Millwall for being a sex pervert