10 Players Newcastle Should Never Have Sold In The Premier League Era

3. David Ginola

A marquee signing if there ever was one, Ginola supplied the 'je ne sais quoi' to Keegan's 'Entertainers' side of the mid-90's following a £2.5 million switch from Paris Saint Germain in 1995. Premier League right backs would quake in their boots every time the French wing wizard would seize possession, dazzling the Toon Army with a magician's array of tricks and twisting his opponent into a knot in their futile attempts to nick the ball from toes, which seemed to possess adhesive qualities. A stand-out memory comes from the Tyne-Wear derby clash against Middlesbrough when the Magpies labouring to break down their recently promoted Teesside opponents. That was until the 67th minute when the ball was fed out to Ginola, who mercilessly tortured two defenders down the left flank before whipping in a delicious cross for Ferdinand to head home the winning goal. Geordie hearts, most of them female, were broken when he was shipped off to Tottenham two years later because, contrary to the shampoo adverts he regularly starred in, he wasn't worth it in the eyes of Dalglish.