September 2 2002 - Bobby Robson: The £7.5 Million Pound
Mistake
http://www.football-rumours.com/1299.html#Robson
In the early days of managing Newcastle, Bobby Robson saw Jason
Euell playing upfront for Wimbledon and thought he was a fantastic
player.
But Bobby Robson is not very good with names and tells his scout to
make enquires about the young black lad, England under 21 player,
who plays upfront for Wimbledon.
The only problem was that Wimbledon had moved Jason Euell back to
midfield and put Carl Cort up front for Wimbledon, who is also a
young black lad and England under 21 player.
So the scout comes back and asks Bobby Robson if he wants to put a
bid in for Carl Cort and Bobby Robson says yes put a £7.5 million
pound bid for the young black lad, England under 21 player, who
plays upfront for Wimbledon.
Now Jason Euell is arguably a much better player than Carl Cort and
maybe worth £7.5 million pounds but Carl Cort is not worth that
much, so when Wimbledon received a bid of £7.5 million pounds for
Carl Cort, they could not sign fast enough.
So after a short while, Bobby Robson finds out that he has bought
the wrong player but hasn't let it out yet.[/b][/u]
