Worst ever signing? (1 Viewer)

LastGarrison

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Honourable mention to Arjan de Zeeuw.

Slowest player I think I’ve ever seen in a city shirt.
 

ccfc1234

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If we use a price vs impact ratio would say maybe Moldvan. He was big money and did nothing. I was a small lad at the time tho so older heads pls feel free to put me right.
 

cc84cov

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If we use a price vs impact ratio would say maybe Moldvan. He was big money and did nothing. I was a small lad at the time tho so older heads pls feel free to put me right.
Scored the winner at Villa mate he can’t be on this list it’s not right ;-)
 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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Not really - bit of a waste of money really and IMO Aloisi was a better bet.

but the Villa Park goal does kind of make him immune because we all just went nuts that day.

And there's the England WC penalty given away by Phil Neville....
 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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Ivan Guerrero

Just to show the standard of the MLS I saw him play for Chicago Fire in a game and he was head and shoulders above everyone else on the pitch that day. Game also included the FM legend that was Freddy Adu and you could instantly see it was American's bigging him up because anyone who'd watched any decent level of football could see he wasn't very good - trapped a ball worse than Dele Adebola, misdirected simple passes and he looked above 3ft tall.
 

cc84cov

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Like I said I was very young. Did he do much else? Remember my dad slagging him off a fair bit haha
No that was pretty much it mate lol sure we paid 3m for him from Grasshopers I may be wrong.

Just cheaked 3.25m we paid 44 goals in 51 games before us then he went to Fenerbache scored 49 in 53 for them.
 

Gazolba

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Ysrael Zuniga
Yakubu
Onandi Lowe
Zuniga was a very good player that was never given a run of gamnes to prove his ability.
Worst ever (well recent) signing was Yakubu.
Less recent, Kyle Lightbourne.
 
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Gazolba

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There was a whole clutch of players costing anywhere between £1m-£2m that Strachan Signed and then never played or were often injured. Keith O Neill, Laurent Delorge, Ivan Guerrero and another Honduran.... To this day I have no idea where Honduras is... or if it's even a real country.
Well that just shows your geographic ignorance. Honduras is a real country and they have played in the World Cup three times, so they have a decent football pedigree. Ok, so they did finish bottom of their group in all three World Cups but at least they qualified.
 

shepardo01

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Not a player, but Jim Smith when he was brought in at the back end of our first season down to assist Roland Nilsson.
Not 100% sure of accuracies, but we were sitting in 4th with 10 games to go (that is accurate)... In comes Smith, brings in Trollope and Carbonari and we win one more game all season and finish in 10th (ish) place...
 

lordsummerisle

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Cobi Jones. Mainly because I purchased the ‘Cobi’s in town’ t-shirt from the club shop. Probably imagined at the time it was cool to be wearing something with an American type slogan. Wore it once to much hilarity from my mates. Never seen again. A bit like Cobi’s career with us.

Think it was the draw for the 2010 World Cup finals and the FIFA announcer was hyping it up..
" To make the draw for the finals groups in South Africa, three legends of World football"

"Pele!"
"Franz Beckenbaur!"
"Cobi Jones!"
 

ddsdube

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Richard Shaw, drained the club for years and was absolutely dire week after week, some how got hero status from our fan base.

I always thought this but people seem to love him!!


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LastGarrison

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There was a whole clutch of players costing anywhere between £1m-£2m that Strachan Signed and then never played or were often injured. Keith O Neill, Laurent Delorge, Ivan Guerrero and another Honduran.... To this day I have no idea where Honduras is... or if it's even a real country.

Laurent fucking Delorge.

I had a proper, proper hatred for him.

That annoying little step over was one thing but he was by far and away the biggest bottler I have ever seen in a City shirt. Wouldn’t even go in for a 70/30 if it was in his favour never mind a 50/50!! And I know he broke his leg but even before that he was a shithouse.

Even typing this has pissed me off.
 

fernandopartridge

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If we use a price vs impact ratio would say maybe Moldvan. He was big money and did nothing. I was a small lad at the time tho so older heads pls feel free to put me right.
Disagree, first goal was a winner at Villa Park. He was reasonable when here just signed at the wrong time and that miss at Sheffield United
 

Sterling Archer

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The worst thing about the Moldovan signing is that we didn't need to spunk £4m on a striker. We had Dublin and Huckerby that season who were flying and were a superb partnership. My memory may be hazy but I'm certain Strachan played Moldovan in the FA Cup Quarter Final against Sheffield United and put Dublin at CB, in the 1-1 home draw. The game was cryng out for Dion up top.

The £4m could've been spent on improving a pretty wobbly defence.
 

fernandopartridge

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The worst thing about the Moldovan signing is that we didn't need to spunk £4m on a striker. We had Dublin and Huckerby that season who were flying and were a superb partnership. My memory may be hazy but I'm certain Strachan played Moldovan in the FA Cup Quarter Final against Sheffield United and put Dublin at CB, in the 1-1 home draw. The game was cryng out for Dion up top.

The £4m could've been spent on improving a pretty wobbly defence.

I do wonder whether he was just a Newmarket scheme signing, a decent profit was made on him (£750k after less than 6 months).
 

Adge

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The worst thing about the Moldovan signing is that we didn't need to spunk £4m on a striker. We had Dublin and Huckerby that season who were flying and were a superb partnership. My memory may be hazy but I'm certain Strachan played Moldovan in the FA Cup Quarter Final against Sheffield United and put Dublin at CB, in the 1-1 home draw. The game was cryng out for Dion up top.

The £4m could've been spent on improving a pretty wobbly defence.
I think Moldovan kept Huckerby and Dublin on their toes and the pair were undropable for that period.
A decent striker and scored aswell in a 0-3 victory at Selhurst Park against Palace if I remember correctly?
 
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SkyBlueCRJ

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I think the of the biggest flop 'post Premier League' era was Freddie Eastwood. Cost £1.2M, which at the time was a sizeable fee for a transfer in the Championship and he didn't look even half the player he was made out to be.
 

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