PEDIGREE PIGS IN A POKE…AND OTHER KINDS

CHRIS DUNLAVY charts some unseen big-money buys that came good...and some that didn’t

WHEN Steve Kean announced that he hadn’t even seen two of his summer recruits play, Blackburn fans were understandably nervous.After all, who can forget Ali Dia, the man sign by Southampton after a chancer purporting to George Weah recommended him to manager Graeme Souness?Or striker Marco Boogers, sent off in only his second game for Harry Redknapp’s West Ham and subsequently discovered hiding in a Dutch caravan park.The Footyverse is full of such disasters, but fe not – ...

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