[Football] What rumour about a player coming to the Albion has excited you the most?

[Mackenzie]

Kevin Bremner.

 

[Chicken Run]

Vincent’s with the pictures of him in Galleleo in Woodland Dive and the Easy Jet dude who had to run through the gates with his contract

 

[Stat Brother]

The next striker - as yet unannounced.

 

[Seagull1989]

Jlloyd Samuel

 

[Klaas]

The permanent signing of Zamora in February 2000 after his successful 6 goals in 6 games loan spell.

Good call. Remember finding out about it in the Argus.

Jason Peake.

 

[GT49er]

Going back, the signings that most excited me (the likes of Bobby Smith, Ken Beamish, Fred Binney or Mike Robinson) weren't the subject of rumours - ay least, not for a lad living many miles from Sussex (and of course, with no internet in those days).
And nowadays, TBH, I've never heard of most of the rumours before they pop up on NSC, so perhaps it's understandable why I don't get too excited!

 

[goldstone]

Bobby Smith in the '60s

Absolutely. Nothing comes close. Can't remember how many rumours there were though as rumours were a lot more difficult to communicate back then!

 

[Frutos]

Definitely Vicente.

 

[Megazone]

Glenn Murray from Rochdale

 

[Icy Gull]

I confess to being quite excited when we signed Mickey Thomas as he was being chased by a few clubs at the same time. That went well

 

[bobby baxter]

Rumour has it, allegedly, that the Albion paid Tottenham £5,000 for Bobby Smith, but, also had to clear his gambling debts of around £30,000. How true is that . . . . ?

We will never know, although a prominent Brighton fan, a bookmaker called George Gunn was heavily involved in the signing.

 

[Jam The Man]

The permanent signing of Zamora in February 2000 after his successful 6 goals in 6 games loan spell.

A few of us on here who played weekly 5 a side football at Portslade Community College might just have heard about it the night before by someone in the know...

But he signed in August?

 

[Stat Brother]

Glenn Murray TO Rochdale

Now that would be exciting

 

[METALMICKY]

Whether it happened or not.

For me CMS (yeah I know ), Kanchelskis and the flight tracking of Ali J.

Oh and Edna at Gatwick when Lua Lua signed. Sadly I was on holiday for the Vicente signing so missed out on that one.

CMS I remember it well. Was annoyed that Gus and Muzza couldn't patch up their differences but this was soon forgotten with the news that CMS was coming. Nice bloke but it just didn't work out did it?

 

[B.W.]

Richard Tiltman... Barry Lloyd saying he was better than Dean Saunders... he wasn't...

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Zamora as it meant almost certain promotion
CMS. At the time it was a real coup. Rarely have I wanted an Albion signing to work.

 

[METALMICKY]

Can't believe nobody has mentioned how excited they were about Mark Farrington signing

 

[Conelli98]

Jonathon ' hold the nerve' Calleri !

 

[Kosh]

Minton and McDougald... I was mega excited by their arrival. Prior to that: Kurt Nogan... I was gutted when we sold him

Zamora too, Vicente certainly.

Wayne Bridge, genuinely delighted when he rocked up.

 

[MattBackHome]

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