Just seen him in Manchester. Apparently an advisor in a football agency business now. He has put on a bit of timber !!

Edited January 22, 201313 yr by marple whites

dunno why, but I thought each Jap we signed was going to be ace

 

that one we bought in 2001/2 I think was really just a chance to cash in on the impending world cup

 

nakata - was actually decent, but not as good as he had been in Italy

 

Myachi was wank

Akinori Nishizawa. The club shop did a roaring trade in printing his name in Japanese symbols on the back of tops. No doubt it actually meant summat different, mind.

Nakata decent?? Not in my memory

 

Just like Candela; may have been decent and a big name elsewhere but was johnny average for us

 

File under D for Disappintment.

 

Not quite an F for Fucking Disappointment like Jardel

Nakata showed it in flashes but too few and far between for him to be considered anything like a success. Nice free kick against West Brom.

 

Didn't he leave us for Harvard?

 

Got the impression he was already falling out of love with football when he came to us, and the functional but often joyless stuff we churned out that year pushed him over the edge.

 

Still our best Jap by a long way, mind!

Nakata showed it in flashes but too few and far between for him to be considered anything like a success. Nice free kick against West Brom.

 

Didn't he leave us for Harvard?

 

Got the impression he was already falling out of love with football when he came to us, and the functional but often joyless stuff we churned out that year pushed him over the edge.

 

Still our best Jap by a long way, mind!

 

I thought I'd read he'd moved into the fashion world (not the one at the bottom of Trinity Street).

 

He was huge in Japan, as big an icon as Beckham is/was here.

 

I think the fact he retired so young showed that when he was with us he wasn't completely focused on the game.

10 years after the transfer window was first introduced...

 

Micheal Ricketts, step forward as being one of the biggest primadonna shithouse wankers ever to wear the white shirt.

 

Wife beating cunt.

 

MICHAEL RICKETTS, (Bolton to Middlesbrough, £3.5m)

 

What they said: "Middlesbrough are a far bigger club than Bolton - I can achieve my ultimate career aims here." Michael Ricketts

 

 

Remembered by many as the archetypal one-cap wonder, Ricketts moved to Middlesbrough on deadline day hoping to recapture the form that had earned him England recognition only a year earlier.

 

The forward had managed just three league goals from open play since his 45-minute international cameo against the Dutch.

 

The Teessiders beat off competition from Tottenham to sign the 24-year-old. But while he was part of the Boro side that beat Bolton in the League Cup final, he continued to find goals elusive. He departed in 2004, having scored only four times.

 

What happened next: Ricketts played for nine lower league clubs in six years, but has been without a club since being released by Tranmere three years ago.

another pair who went badly wrong after joining boro, were riggott and chrsitie

 

fook me, they pissed some cash away

Is his dad still a security guard at Tesco?

another pair who went badly wrong after joining boro, were riggott and chrsitie

 

fook me, they pissed some cash away

 

alfonso alves?

 

btw, your avatar. victor?

alfonso alves?

 

btw, your avatar. victor?

 

hahaha

 

nah, egghead whittless

another pair who went badly wrong after joining boro, were riggott and chrsitie

 

fook me, they pissed some cash away

Maccaroni....baldy Italian striker, was another who became quite shite after signing for Boro.

Who was that homunculus one? Juninho (sic) Didn't he go to Real? He was good.

Who was that homunculus one? Juninho (sic) Didn't he go to Real? He was good.

 

He was brilliant. He actually left there to play for Atletico ... but then opted to go back to Boro for a second stint. Seemed like he loved the place. Weirdo.

Jesus, he was a homunculus. 5 foot 4!

 

What's not to like in Middlesborough?

 

Maccaroni....baldy Italian striker, was another who became quite shite after signing for Boro.

He had three or four decent seasons in Serie A back at Siena after leaving Boro before slipping down to Serie B in his thirties. Not top class, then, but hardly shite.

He was brilliant. He actually left there to play for Atletico ... but then opted to go back to Boro for a second stint. Seemed like he loved the place. Weirdo.

 

always remember an interview when he joined Boro from Sao Paulo (where he was also from)

 

went along the lines of

 

"so, you've moved from Sao Paulo to Middlesbrough - this must come as quite a culture shock"

 

"erm, you've never actually been to Sao Paulo have you? compared to where I'm from, Middlesbrough is a utopia"

He had three or four decent seasons in Serie A back at Siena after leaving Boro before slipping down to Serie B in his thirties. Not top class, then, but hardly shite.

I meant his time at Boro. Just looked it up, & he cost £8.15m in 2002, got loaned out back to Italy twice , & then got released on a free transfer in Jan 2007. Fairly shite, but he did seem to buck up again once he got back to Italy.

 

I meant his time at Boro. Just looked it up, & he cost £8.15m in 2002, got loaned out back to Italy twice , & then got released on a free transfer in Jan 2007. Fairly shite, but he did seem to buck up again once he got back to Italy.

I bet he still shows up more than once on a lot of Boro fans' 'favourite goals ever' lists.

 

He started well at Boro and seemed to persuade Rovers that spunking decent money on little-known Serie B strikers was a good idea.

 

Corrado Grabbi - now he was wank!

I bet he still shows up more than once on a lot of Boro fans' 'favourite goals ever' lists.

 

He started well at Boro and seemed to persuade Rovers that spunking decent money on little-known Serie B strikers was a good idea.

 

Corrado Grabbi - now he was wank!

 

Forest were the pioneers though with Andrea Silenzi

Even gets a mention on the BEEB Transfer update site.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/21283085 1820:

BACK TO THE FUTURE

 

Rewind the clock back a decade to January 2003 - the first January transfer window.

Do you remember it? I recall watching my Bolton-supporting housemate fall to his knees in despair at the sale of Michael Ricketts.

Fuck I didn't realise it's only been around 10 years, seems like always been there

 

We signed djorkeaff just before the march deadline the season before then and could sign who you wanted at any point up till match

 

Seems like an age ago