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“Following the Malcom saga, it got me wondering about other last-minute transfer switches. What are the latest times in a transfer process that a player has backed out of one deal for another?” muses Stephen Dornish.
Let’s start with a transfer that pretty much changed the landscape of English football, when Roy Keane sent Kenny Dalglish into a fury by pulling out of a verbal agreement to join Blackburn in favour of Sir Alex Ferguson and Manchester United in the summer of 1993. Rob Smyth wrote about it recently.
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