Worst ever signing? (1 Viewer)

ashbyjan

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For me the signing I was really excited about and turned out to be complete waste of money was Eastwood. I really thought he would be a difference maker but he just couldn't be bothered. Complete disappointment. Also Bellamy falls into similar catagory but he has the added misery of a huge pricetag and the fact he is a complete bellend.
 

Skyblueweeman

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For me the signing I was really excited about and turned out to be complete waste of money was Eastwood. I really thought he would be a difference maker but he just couldn't be bothered. Complete disappointment. Also Bellamy falls into similar catagory but he has the added misery of a huge pricetag and the fact he is a complete bellend.

Yeah, same with Eastwood actually. I though he'd be excellent for us.
 

Sky_Blue_Daz

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Freddie Eastwood was a hell of a letdown.
 

SkyBlueCRJ

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For me the signing I was really excited about and turned out to be complete waste of money was Eastwood. I really thought he would be a difference maker but he just couldn't be bothered. Complete disappointment. Also Bellamy falls into similar catagory but he has the added misery of a huge pricetag and the fact he is a complete bellend.

It's funny, as fans it's easy to point the finger at footballers and claim they don't care and more often than not our comments are unfair and unwarranted. That doesn't apply to Eastwood though. Freddie Eastwood genuinely did not care two hoots.
 

kapowaz

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As rubbish as he was, I did enjoy us having Eastwood, Westwood and Northwood in the team all at once.
 

Terry_dactyl

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A bit left field but what about John Hartson? Great player but a really poor signing in that he was signed too late! I seem to remember us being linked with him months before he actually signed. What might have been...
 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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As rubbish as he was, I did enjoy us having Eastwood, Westwood and Northwood in the team all at once.

Northwood? I think we had Richard Wood or Neil Wood possibly at the same time but don't ever remember a Northwood
 

kapowaz

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My memory must be failing me. I was sure we had a player on loan called somebody Northwood. Google suggests I’m imagining it though.
 

oucho

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A lot of just bad players instead of bad signing in here.

You can't have someone play for you without them signing some form of deal, even if it's pay-as-you-play or someone from the youth system who has signed pro terms.
 

Liquid Gold

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You can't have someone play for you without them signing some form of deal, even if it's pay-as-you-play or someone from the youth system who has signed pro terms.
But signing a bad player doesn't mean the signing was necesarily bad. Signing Allissani for example could be viewed as bad because he hasn't made an impact but was a cheap young pickup from non league with no risk. Bringing someone in for a million quid even if they play more games and score more goals would be a bad bit of business if you were relying on them.

Nuzzo for example was terrible but bought in on loan and played 1 game with the second string in a meaningless cup game, so what. Beavon was bought in as our only goal threat in a team fighting relegation and scored very little, much better player, much worse signing.
 

DannyThomas_1981

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Leon barnett
Reece brown
Nick proswicz
The Bournemouth trio
Yakubu
I think Nick Proswicz (agreed absolutely useless) was on loan. We should start another list of ‘loan failures’.....most likely an even higher number of contenders.
 
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DannyThomas_1981

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A bit left field but what about John Hartson? Great player but a really poor signing in that he was signed too late! I seem to remember us being linked with him months before he actually signed. What might have been...
Agreed Terry and you make some fair points. Hartson is disqualified as a serious contender in this list of misfiring contenders though as 1. He was sensational for us on the pitch (albeit too late as you rightfully point out) and 2. He was sold at a significant profit.
 

DannyThomas_1981

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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.
I watched Kyle Lightbourne play for Stoke in a pre season friendly against a local Isle of Man team around 2000. I had a fantastic view from the touch line. Kyle was by far the worst player on the pitch. Never understood how he made it as a professional.
 

Gazolba

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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!"
Cobi Jones still holds the record for the most international caps (164) by a US male player (there's a female player with 352).
He's now a TV pundit in the US and one of the best I've seen.
He's very insightful and knowledgeable about the game and with a great sense of humour.
Still has a goofy hairstyle.
 

DannyThomas_1981

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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.

The Sheffield United quarter final was one we should easily have won at home. We absolutely battered them only for their keeper Kelly to put in an out of this world performance. Had to be seen to be believed. The away defeat in the replay is still too difficult to talk about!

I agree totally that Dublin was wasted in defence simply because he was arguably our greatest ever forward.
 

Terry_dactyl

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Agreed Terry and you make some fair points. Hartson is disqualified as a serious contender in this list of misfiring contenders though as 1. He was sensational for us on the pitch (albeit too late as you rightfully point out) and 2. He was sold at a significant profit.
I agree. Just trying to think of someone. He cost us £5mil right? What did we get for him again?
 

HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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A bit left field but what about John Hartson? Great player but a really poor signing in that he was signed too late! I seem to remember us being linked with him months before he actually signed. What might have been...
If hartson signed a few months earlier we’d have stayed up. I’m certain of that - I remember him playing Man Utd on his own
But signing a bad player doesn't mean the signing was necesarily bad. Signing Allissani for example could be viewed as bad because he hasn't made an impact but was a cheap young pickup from non league with no risk. Bringing someone in for a million quid even if they play more games and score more goals would be a bad bit of business if you were relying on them.

Nuzzo for example was terrible but bought in on loan and played 1 game with the second string in a meaningless cup game, so what. Beavon was bought in as our only goal threat in a team fighting relegation and scored very little, much better player, much worse signing.
also you say meaningless Cup game - it was the league cup and we lost 5-1 to lower league Tranmere... he was pretty much involved in most of their goals
 

oucho

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McSheff when he rejoined us?
 

Adge

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McSheff when he rejoined us?
Yep, simply didn’t and couldn’t do it. Also had the cheek to ask Mark Robins to sign him for a third time last summer. Thinks the club owes him something for some reason.
 

oucho

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Yep, simply didn’t and couldn’t do it. Also had the cheek to ask Mark Robins to sign him for a third time last summer. Thinks the club owes him something for some reason.

Yeah didn't he supposedly throw a hissy fit when MR declined to sign him??
 

DannyThomas_1981

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Don't forget Mqwank. Those 3 and 400quid for Wilson!

I agree Greggs. We took those 3 players on loan so effectively we got 400 bags only for Wilson. Our worst outward transfer of all time considering not too long before we had managed to get £700K for Borrowdale,
 

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