[Albion] Which European football powerhouse could have tempted you away from the Albion?

[MattBackHome]

In fact, just to make my agent aware now, here are my preferred options for each nation:
Napoli
Dortmund
Sevilla
Monaco
Porto
Galatasaray

Any of them please, Jorge.

 

[Happy Exile]

As utterly insane as this might sound, I'd have been persuadable to swap the Withdean and a final match of the season away defeat to Shrewsbury Town for the Valencia team of 2000/2001 and a Champions League final. I'd ideally join them around 1996 for a decade of quality football before coming back to the Albion to see out the final year or two of my career.

It'd rely on Valencia at the time scouting for a bloke whose ability in his head totally surpassed any reflection of reality, and who'd just embarrassed himself kicking the floor instead of the ball trying to win a cuddly toy on some game on the pier for a girl he fancied. An unlikely situation perhaps, but their loss I'm sure.

 

[Mellotron]

Sevilla is a lovely shout. Great place.

 

[Mellotron]

As utterly insane as this might sound, I'd have been persuadable to swap the Withdean and a final match of the season away defeat to Shrewsbury Town for the Valencia team of 2000/2001 and a Champions League final. I'd ideally join them around 1996 for a decade of quality football before coming back to the Albion to see out the final year or two of my career.

Would you also be the type to make up injuries in your head, and decide on the morning of a game whether you "fancied it" or not?

 

[Stat Brother]

As utterly insane as this might sound, I'd have been persuadable to swap the Withdean and a final match of the season away defeat to Shrewsbury Town for the Valencia team of 2000/2001 and a Champions League final. I'd ideally join them around 1996 for a decade of quality football before coming back to the Albion to see out the final year or two of my career.

It'd rely on Valencia at the time scouting for a bloke whose ability in his head totally surpassed any reflection of reality, and who'd just embarrassed himself kicking the floor instead of the ball trying to win a cuddly toy on some game on the pier for a girl he fancied. An unlikely situation perhaps, but their loss I'm sure.

That's the spirit.

 

[Happy Exile]

Would you also be the type to make up injuries in your head, and decide on the morning of a game whether you "fancied it" or not?

This is definitely an option, but after careful consideration I think I'm probably more likely to demand selection then run around like an idiot for the first 3 minutes chasing all over the pitch before spending the rest of the time with my hands on my knees red faced and puffing and trying not to collapse while making the universally recognised signal for "sub me now." Obviously then I'd fake a limp and claim I'd tweaked a hamstring.

 

[Stat Brother]

Oh forgive my ignorance, right now I could be tempted away from all the trappings of The Guildbourne Centre and sing for Lille.


That would then be followed by heading down to lift Napoli up to a competitive level, before bringing down the curtain on my career getting Toulouse back to the top table.

 

[Happy Exile]

Oh forgive my ignorance, right now I could be tempted away from all the trappings of The Guildbourne Centre and sing for Lille.


That would then be followed by heading down to lift Napoli up to a competitive level, before bringing down the curtain on my career getting Toulouse back to the top table.

I quite like the idea of a pan-European tour acquiring accents on the way in the style of Steve McLaren and Joey Barton, switching accent according to the nationality of the person who asked the question in the press conference.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Not too different from linking him to ex-Mourinho Spurs, playing under a manager whose identity next season is currently solely question marks in a team that is currently 7th in the PL and 24 points off top spot.

* I know who Ryan Mason is, but if we're taking a gamble

I agree. If I was White I would not be considering Spurs until they sort out their manager position.

It is staggering that a club can posses Kane and Son in the form of their lives, plus players with the raw talent of Bale and Dele Alli, and still potentially miss out of Europa League football. If Arsenal beat Chelsea tonight there is a serious possibility that they could finish below Arsenal too - the worst Arsenal side of the last 25 years.

 

[Stat Brother]

I quite like the idea of a pan-European tour acquiring accents on the way in the style of Steve McLaren and Joey Barton, switching accent according to the nationality of the person who asked the question in the press conference.

Nah much like Worthing I'd just have to speak slowly and considerably LOUDER.


Perhaps Worthing is a good start off point for a European tour.

 

[Blue3]

As a fan of BHAFC if I were a player I would have achieved my ultimate dream playing for the club I love

Plus playing in Spain I would bound to get a dodgy belly from the food, Italy with the looney on the road I would probably be involved in a fatal crash, Germany is a good choice but I can only eat so much pork related products, Holland I would off my head on weed, France hell no, so here I would stay

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

In fact, just to make my agent aware now, here are my preferred options for each nation:
Napoli
Dortmund
Sevilla
Monaco
Porto
Galatasaray

Any of them please, Jorge.

I like this idea!

If for some unfathomable reason I had to leave the Albion and Napoli were unavailable to me, I'd go:

Dortmund: who wouldn't want to play in front of that massive stand?
Espanyol: I really liked Barcelona when I visited but who wants to play in blue and red stripes when there is a team in the city playing in blue and white?
Marseille: My gritty working class background would endear me to the fans.
Benfica: It's Benfica, one of the true European giants before money ruined EVERYTHING.
Galatassary: I'd rather have the mental fans supporting me than trying to kill me.

I'd also chuck in:

Ajax: Cryuff!

Red Star Belgrade, Dinamo Kyiv, Steau Bucharest, Slavia Prague, Spartak Moscow and Hadjuk Split: for a bit of old school, Eastern/central European flair.

If none of those will have me, I'll take Cerezo Osaka.

 

[Trufflehound]

PSV

I wouldn't have to move house and can walk to the training ground from here.

But in reality, this:

As a fan of BHAFC if I were a player I would have achieved my ultimate dream playing for the club I love.

 

[Justice]

I would join the team San Aguero played for.

 

[McTavish]

Being an immigrant to Sussex, I might just be persuaded to return to Scotland and join the '67 Celtic team that won the European Cup. Playing in a team with all but one player in the squad born within 11 miles of the ground (and the odd one out, Bobby Lennox, was from Saltcoats, only 30 miles away), players who had come up through the Celtic youth team, must have been an unbelievable feeling.

And imagine playing for a manager who says this via the press to the opposition manager before the final:
“I am now going to tell him how Celtic will be the first team to bring the European Cup back to Britain, but it will not help him in any manner, shape or form: we are going to attack as we have never attacked before. Cups are not won by individuals, they are won by men in a team, men who put their club before personal prestige. I am lucky – I have the players who do just that for Celtic.”

 

[Eeyore]

Valencia. I'll drive myself there.

 

[Deleted member 22389]

Napoli

 

[zefarelly]

Milan
MArseilles/Nice/Paris
Ajax

 

[Insel affe]

Valencia. I'll drive myself there.

Lovely city, love the pedestrian area where you can cycle all the way to the beach from the old town

 

[Insel affe]

Eintracht Frankfurt