Alex Cropley played for @AstonVilla#AVFC from 1976 to 1980.
Manager Ron Saunders signed Cropley from Arsenal for £125,000 in September 1976.
Across four seasons at Villa Park, he made 83 total appearances (67 in the First Division) and scored 7 goals
Jürgen Klinsmann 🇩🇪 at @sampdoria
Had a brief, injury-hit spell at UC Sampdoria during the first half of the 1997–98 season, scoring 2 goals in 8 Serie A appearances (10 across all competitions) before departing in December 1997. Despite arriving with high expectations following a Bundesliga title win with Bayern Munich, managerial upheaval and a seven-week ankle injury curtailed his time in Genoa
Jesper Blomqvist 🇸🇪 @Everton#EFC
Spent a single, injury-interrupted season at Everton during the 2001–02 campaign, making 15 Premier League appearances (18 across all competitions) and scoring 1 goal. After two years sidelined by a severe knee injury at Manchester United, the Swedish winger joined the Toffees on a short-term contract to revive his top-flight career before being released in May 2002.
Roger Palmer @OfficialOAFC#OAFC .
Spent 14 years at Oldham Athletic from 1980 to 1994.
Palmer joined Oldham from Manchester City in November 1980 and went on to make 461 league appearances at Boundary Park , becoming the club's all-time leading goalscorer with 141 league goals.
Mike Doyle played for @stokecity from 1978 to 1982, making 115 league appearances and scoring 5 goals.
Stoke manager Alan Durban signed Doyle from Manchester City for £50,000.
Greg Abbott @CoventryCityFC
Born in Coventry and began his career with his hometown club, Coventry City.
No 1st team league games but moved on to do well with Bradford City for a number of years