Tekel Towers » Best Foreign Dundee United Player?

Tek · 05/12/2018 2:01 am

If you had just one choice, lads? Thought it would be interesting to see the different opinions as we have posters on here ageing from16-80.

For me it's Kjell Olofsson.

japanarab · 05/12/2018 4:31 am

Best and before my time would probably be Finn Dossing going by the stats but personally my favourite was good old Victoooooor.

I can actually remember Kjell getting pelters near the end of his time at United for being slow.

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bowers · 05/12/2018 7:47 am

Possibly Eric Pederson

TheShed · 05/12/2018 7:58 am

Best foreign player in my time is probably Miodrag Krivokapic.

MockChop · 05/12/2018 8:22 am

in my lifetime, Jon Daly.

wasn’t really until 2 years after he left that I realised how important he was to us.

kiwiarab · 05/12/2018 8:37 am

Olofsson was the first name that came to mind, as he has already been suggested, how about morgaro gomis?

work rate, composure, great touch, tactical awareness and a scottish cup winner.

RRDH · 05/12/2018 9:10 am

bowers wrote:
Possibly Eric Pederson

That's an amazing shout that.

Macho Man · 05/12/2018 9:26 am

Its a toss up between Krivokapic, Pedersen, Kalvenes and Olafsson, IMO. I'm not taking into account players that were before my time.

Morphman · 05/12/2018 9:33 am

Jon Daly for me.

DontOfferMeThat · 05/12/2018 11:03 am

Best in respect of enjoyed it the most - Erik P. But otherwise Victor "I Spit in Your Face" Ferreyra. Then despite his horrific management - Big Mixu! Lethal

SlatefordArab · 05/12/2018 11:47 am

In my lifetime, it has to be Olofsson, Mio or Erik. Victor was a great talent but we never really got a full run of games out of him. Mixu was also a great player in his first couple of seasons then went off the boil in his last couple of years.

blackandtangerine · 05/12/2018 12:36 pm

Loads of great foreign players in my time. He wasn't here long and Tbf if he didnt suffer a bad injury he would never have been near Tannadice. Imo he just oozed class. Siggi Jonsson.

TheShed · 05/12/2018 12:44 pm

blackandtangerine wrote:
Loads of great foreign players in my time. He wasn't here long and Tbf if he didnt suffer a bad injury he would never have been near Tannadice. Imo he just oozed class. Siggi Jonsson.

He was a class act aswell. Real top player.

05/12/2018 12:46 pm

Dossing was God.
His deity was confirmed on 11 Sept 65.
It's the day the power shifted to the north side of Tannadice Street.
A very significant date.

Shedtastic · 05/12/2018 1:13 pm

Olofsson, Petric, Gomis, Kalvenes, Dijkstra, Weaver in no particular order.

B_Bombscare · 05/12/2018 1:15 pm

Van Der Hoorn, Mio, Kjell, Pedersen, Petric and more recently Nadir Cifti

Beharder · 05/12/2018 2:06 pm

Richard Gough unbelievable ability in the air.
Slightly tainted due to his hunnery.

Arab87 · 05/12/2018 2:44 pm

Petric was class, Sieb is a cult hero, Kjell, Lars and Erik were class. As for ability, when he did play, Siggi for me. If it wasn't for a career plagued with injuries, he would have been playing at the highest level.

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PatReilly · 05/12/2018 4:23 pm

Best: Siggi Jonsson, maybe in terms of reputation, but Souness had wrecked his career to a huge extent more than 10 years before we signed him. Great player with a presence though.

Best in recent times would be Nadir Ciftci for entertainment value, skills and general ‘craziness’.

I also thought we could have got a lot more out of Tassos Venetis (!), but overall, it’s Miodrag Krivkapic.

Downfield Arab · 05/12/2018 4:39 pm

Lenny Wing closely followed by Finn Dossing

Macho Man · 05/12/2018 5:02 pm

PatReilly wrote:
I also thought we could have got a lot more out of Tassos Venetis (!)

He is, IMO, the guy that annoyed me because he didn't achieve his potential. I was genuinely going to comment on him earlier in this thread.

Finn Seemann · 05/12/2018 5:21 pm

Has to be Finn Seemann for me! Without him I would probably have been a Dee.

In terms of players I have actually seen play - Gough despite his post United career was a class player. I'd agree re Jonsson, Pedersen, Ollofson, Petric and Krivokapic being up there. In terms of more obscure, always thought Talesnikov looked a player.

lifesanocean · 05/12/2018 7:19 pm

Surprised no-one has mentioned Mixu who was a very good striker for us.

Billy_Hainey · 05/12/2018 8:12 pm

Finn Dossing for me.

redford_must_score · 05/12/2018 9:13 pm

Downfield mentioned Lennart Wing and that's a great shout. Dossing got the headlines but Lennart was a classy defender for a big man, think he played in both games v the cellik in 67 when we beat them home and away.
Mogens Berg was also good to watch. In fact all the Scandinavians were great value.
But if I had to put them in order in my time I'd go

Gough (strip away the emotion)
closely followed by the mighty Finn of Dossing
runner up Jimmy Gomis

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