When Saints were in the SPL in 2000/01, they were desperately looking for a player and were linked with the likes of Daniel Amokachi and Bebeto. How much truth is in those stories we'll never know, but the ROnaldinho one seems to have been real enough.
Read the full article at http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/tm_objectid=14999176&method=full&siteid=89488&headline=football--bugs-buddie-name_page.html and discover just how close we came to getting him.
In the end we got Stephen McPhee, who is now being chased by Benfica, Sporting Lisbon and Liverpool. Seems that being linked with Saints is enough to send your status soring.