Tugay

[Gribz 966]

^ what a squad of players!!!!

[Ser Barristan Selmy 222]

Midfielders with 10 or more appearances in 2000-2001 season:

 

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[td]No[/td] [td]Player Name[/td] [td]App[/td] [td]Gls[/td]

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[tr]

[td]6[/td]

[td]Barry Ferguson[/td]

[td]47[/td]

[td]6[/td]

[/tr]

[tr]

[td]17[/td]

[td]Tugay Kerimoğlu [/td]

[td]38[/td]

[td]3[/td]

[/tr]

[tr]

[td]18[/td]

[td]Neil McCann[/td]

[td]35[/td]

[td]3[/td]

[/tr]

[tr]

[td]11[/td]

[td]Jörg Albertz[/td]

[td]34[/td]

[td]15[/td]

[/tr]

[tr]

[td]12[/td]

[td]Claudio Reyna[/td]

[td]31[/td]

[td]2[/td]

[/tr]

[tr]

[td]14[/td]

[td]Ronald de Boer[/td]

[td]26[/td]

[td]7[/td]

[/tr]

[tr]

[td]24[/td]

[td]Allan Johnston[/td]

[td]25[/td]

[td]3[/td]

[/tr]

[tr]

[td]8[/td]

[td]Giovanni van Bronckhorst[/td]

[td]19[/td]

[td]6[/td]

[/tr]

[tr]

[td]7[/td]

[td]Andrei Kanchelskis[/td]

[td]14[/td]

[td]3[/td]

[/tr]

[tr]

[td]26[/td]

[td]Peter Løvenkrands[/td]

[td]10[/td]

[td]0[/td]

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That's a lot of competition he had there and yet still made the second most appearances. I think the reason he was sold the following season mainly came down to overspending (£30,900,000) in this one.

He was never a first choice though. I'm sure a lot of those games are sub appearances and less important games. Gio, Albertz, Ferguson, Reyna etc were all ahead of him.