Sam Allardyce in s***waffle incident part 391

Apparently the rotund one also 'nearly' signed Messi too but couldn't agree terms......

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22305776

Robert Lewandowski: Sam Allardyce regrets missed signing

West Ham manager Sam Allardyce says he regularly rues missing out on the chance to sign Robert Lewandowski when he was in charge at Blackburn.
Allardyce blamed the Volcanic ash cloud, as well as financial worries, for scuppering the potential deal for the striker, then at Lech Poznan.
"I think about it every time I see him play," said Allardyce, who was sacked as Blackburn manager in December 2010.

Lewandowski could join Bayern Munich from Borussia Dortmund in the summer.

The 24-year-old Poland international striker, who has also been linked with a move to Manchester United, scored all four of his side's goals in Wednesday's 4-1 victory over Real Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final.
"My distant memory isn't that great, but I think John Williams [former Rovers chairman] and the board said we are not going to commit that amount of money," said Allardyce.
"I think they wanted three or four million euros (£2.6m or £3.5m), but we were particularly strapped financially at the time at Blackburn.
"I watched him play, but I didn't get the chance to meet him. I think his agent said he couldn't come over because of the ash cloud."
All flights in and out of the UK and several other European countries were suspended as ash from a volcanic eruption in Iceland sparked fears of engine damage in April 2010.
Lewandowski eventually signed for Borussia Dortmund in June 2010 and has gone on to score 74 goals in three seasons in Germany, including 10 in this season's Champions League.

"He's probably worth 40m euros (£33m) now," said Allardyce, who instead bought Croatian Nikola Kalinic for around £6m.

"There were a lot of people looking at him at that time as well, but we had the edge over everyone else because of the attraction of the Premier League. He could have used us as a stepping stone but it didn't happen."

 

The fact they signed Kalinic proves the guy wrong, though it is never his fault.

 

So they didn't bid. He never met him, or his agent, he watched him once...

Sheesh, the one that got away eh Sam? If only you signed every player you watched once....

 

Don't worry. When he's in charge of Madrid or Barca he'll be able to afford whoever.

 

I'm sure I read somewhere that Steve Archibald (ex-Scotland & Spurs) was acting for him and offered him to Spurs for peanuts but they decided not to go with him

 

Hmmmmm.....


Imagine what Big Sam's coaching would have done for the lad's technique... Shame all-round really...

 

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Has Sam just been eating a cream cake or did he get a visit from Tash?

 

This man is truly delusional. When you here the likes of Wenger or SAF say "the one that got away", you believe it, not least because they add a bit of substance to it (trials etc). This is just more evidence Sam associates himself with that bracket. His substance? Smack by the sounds of it! He moreorless says he watched him play and thought "he's a good player", and somehow in his world, where Real Madrid is his next move, that translates to it was a done deal but the board didn't see it through. Crazy bastardo.

 

Next he'll be saying he could have signed Messi because he was on holiday in Spain.

 

Next he'll be saying he could have signed Messi because he was on holiday in Spain.