The WAB Friday Quiz #132

Alex Pritchard, remember him? Brighton had agreed a fee with Spurs for the services of the midfielder in the summer of 2016 and he was on route to the Amex to sign a contract, only to decide that the traffic was too bad on the M25 and so he turned around and went to Norwich City instead.

Albion fans have never forgiven Pritchard for his phobia of stationery cars – which of course had nothing to do with the Canaries waving a larger pay packet under his nose at the 11th hour.

He has since been greeted with boos whenever he has come up against Brighton, which is not too often as his career has been unable to match the sharp rise the Seagulls have been on since he turned Chris Hughton down. Justice.

Pritchard is of course not the only ‘nearly man’ who could have become an Albion player but for one reason or another, did not. Virgin van Dijk is another famous example alongside a couple of young talents who went on trial at the Goldstone in the 1980s and who, if we mention here, will give a couple of answers away.

For this week’s WAB Friday Quiz is about those nearly men. The transfers or managerial appointments that came close to happening but never did. Some worked out well, others – like missing out on van Dijk – not so well. Let’s see how many you can remember.

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