Before Fabrizio and David, we spent 2000s summers perusing the papers for transfer gossip and following drawn out sagas, most of which never actually materialized. On this episode of Football In The 2000s, we dive into three of the most high-profile 'almost-transfers' that fell through at the last minute and discuss the domino effects that could have resulted.

What if Kaká had agreed personal terms with City and been their first massive transfer? Would he have brought glory to Moss side earlier? Would it have worked better than at Madrid?

Then, in the second half, we ruminate on how the Premier League and European football in general could have looked differently by analyzing two big moves that fell through in the summer of 2004 (28:30). Did Wenger almost have a Portuguese starlet join his Invincibles? And could Ronaldinho have coped with the rain in Manchester?

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