Nine years ago today....

[jimharri]

What a buzz that whole transfer created.

 

[Rolee]

What an impact, what a ****.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

What an impact, what a ****.

Good enough reply to close the thread.

 

[Tanzeylee]

A signing that catapulted us onto the world stage and the outrage shown for that billboard was fantastically funny

 

[The perfect fumble]

This is the story of that poster, it's amazing the impact it had.....

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Great signing plus our marketing was brilliant at the time.

 

[nw42]

The poster was the work of genius, subtlety with a big fuck off sledgehammer. Rags that weren't taking us seriously changed their tune when that went up.

 

[Bluesince1979]

When i first saw him i said he was a shit paul dickov. How wrong i was. Up there with Aguero, Silva and Toure

 

[Bill]

When i first saw him i said he was a shit paul dickov. How wrong i was. Up there with Aguero, Silva and Toure

easy tiger.

 

[The Preacher]

The poster was the work of genius, subtlety with a big fuck off sledgehammer. Rags that weren't taking us seriously changed their tune when that went up.

Yeah. And you could see how much that still rankled with them when the club put up the pathetic (and self-defeating) “Manchester: Welcome to Zlatan/Ibra (whatever!)” effort. That turned out well, didn’t it?