#3 Ronaldinho to St Mirren – 2001 – BBC Sport
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The 2005 Ballon D’or winner was very weirdly once linked to St Mirren when he was just 20 years old before his first big move to PSG.
Similarly to the Lewandowski rumour, at the time it may not have seemed so crazy, but to think about it now, Ronaldinho spending even a small part of his career at St Mirren would have been extremely bizarre.
A very talented youngster, the Brazilian was attracting interest from Arsenal, as well as St Mirren, but the former seemed a possible transfer, unlike the latter. If it wasn’t for a fake passport scandal that he was involved in, the Brazilian may have made the move to St Mirren, who probably thought they had little chance of capturing him.
He did instead make his move to PSG that summer, and then eventually moved on to Barcelona, where he played some of the best football ever witnessed and became the world’s best player for at least one year. This transfer rumour is certainly up there as one of, if not the, weirdest of all time.
