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Sliding Doors

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Jack L. Jones
What sliding doors moment has had the biggest impact on us?

Francis thinking ZIndane was too wooden? Petit poncing a cab fare from Sugar to go and talk to them lot down the road? Rivaldo's letter? Levy quoting a huge price to Abramovich when he asked about buying us?
 
Sugar deciding that Armstrong was a better buy than Bergkamp... the scout who informed Redknapp that Suarez couldn't play as a striker... dismissing Archibald' recommendation to purchase Lewandowski for £5m...
 
Levy not spending the cash in Jan 2011 and instead of signing a decent striker which wouldve got us a CL spot easily we signed Saha and Nelsen
 
Capello getting sacked (or did he quit?) by England we'd have finished at least 3rd and Arsenal would have missed out on CL.


The Abramovich thing is definitley the biggest though tbf - like ive said before im glad it never happened. But if you think Chelsea have become a big club just imagine the size we'd be by now with that success
 
Let's get this thread back on topic, eh? A scouting and recruitment thread would be fascinating, so happy for someone to start one if you'd like to continue this discussion.
 
Assuming sliding doors can also refer to when you actually get through the doors:

Getting Daniel Levy as our chairman.
Signing Gareth Bale.
Signing Luka Modric.

Biggest negative:

Missing out on regular CL football and the money that follows that whilst seeing our rivals get on that gravy train, both pretty much just as a result of a chronological accident.
 
How about - if Arsenal hadn't bribed their way into the first division in 1919, Spurs would be the biggest club in the world by now :)
 
For a true sliding doors moment where the timing was just off, what about Defoe just failing to reach the ball in the City game where they go up the other end and Ledley gives away the penalty against Balotelli. With the goal we'd have been in the CL again and on our way to establishing our position there, with the extra money, the extra draw for players, etc.
 
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For a true sliding doors moment where the timing was just off, what about Defoe just failing to reach the ball in the City game where they go up the other end and Ledley gives away the penalty against Balotelli. With the goal we'd have been in the CL again and on our way to establishing our position there, with the extra money, the extra draw for players, etc.
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I reckon, if we had won that game, we would have won the league.
 
Eh?
But instead we finished a mere 17 agonisingly-close points behind The Champions.
Damn you, Defoe.
 
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Already mentioned, but the Armstrong/Bergkamp thing in summer 1995 was a watershed which marked the point that Arsenal moved away from us and up into a different league. Our big decade of underachieving really began at that moment.

Another one possibly is May 2012 when Redknapp brought on Parker for van der Vaart against Aston Villa and played for the draw/securing 4th, rather than going for the win/going for 3rd. Ironically though I think that would have meant Levy wouldn't have been able to sack Redknapp and the necessary structural reforms we've been through in the past 18 months would be been papered over and put off. In some ways it has enabled us to behave like Germany did after Euro 2004, rather than how England did.
 
Scholar, trying to make money [ for the club] from non footballing activities . Therefore being forced to sell to Sugar.

So we had to endure the Sugar mediocre years
 
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