Foreign players who never really made it... (1 Viewer)

Runar Normann. Carlita. Jean Guy Wallem. Laurent Delorge.

Zuniga was one I thought was a good signing

Robert Jarni - couldn't even get into the team.......

Goalkeeper Nuzzo?? Played in a league cup game somewhere like Tranmere and got thumped

Faysal El-Idrissi - Micky Adams made him sound all exciting and he lasted a month

Jose perdomo

Roger van gool
Had a decent career abroad and played for the Belgian national team, but looked very average here.

Amadeu Bakayoko
Maxime Biamou

The one and only Che Bunce

scottccfc said:

Goalkeeper Nuzzo?? Played in a league cup game somewhere like Tranmere and got thumped

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Was Tranmare, lost 5-1 and he wore tights! probably one of my worst away days

fatso said:

Amadeu Bakayoko
Maxime Biamou

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I know this is probably tongue in cheek but no one could say Max was a failure. He came from non-league on hardly any wages, had a goal of the season competition by himself, scored an overhead kick in a play off semi final to send us to Wembley and gives his all every time he plays. What more can you ask for a bloke plucked from non-league.

westofrayne said:

Was Tranmare, lost 5-1 and he wore tights! probably one of my worst away days

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“We’ve got a porn star in our goal”. Until Burrows got sent off!

The majority signed from South America under Strachan. I remember having huge hopes for Laurent Delorge. When we signed him apparently pretty much every big team in Europe were tracking him. In fairness I think he broke his leg in his first reserve outing.

harvey098 said:

I know this is probably tongue in cheek but no one could say Max was a failure. He came from non-league on hardly any wages, had a goal of the season competition by himself, scored an overhead kick in a play off semi final to send us to Wembley and gives his all every time he plays. What more can you ask for a bloke plucked from non-league.

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Yes very much tongue in cheek,
But it’s very telling that you didn’t attempt to defend Bakayoko in any way!

As for non league, Stuart Pearce came from non league, scored the odd screamer and gave 100%. And let’s not forget that almost all of Biamou’s appearances for us were in the old division 4, which is only 1 league above non league!

Elery Cairo

Cobi Jones, Rudi Kaiser, Phillipe Clement

There is an European Cup game... think it was the semi final that ended 3-3 against Cloughie's Forest... and Van Gool was a beast that night. Just didn't happen for him.

Jean Guy wallemme

We had 2 players from Honduras, Ivan Guerrero and Javier Martinez in the same season under Strachans reign, I think both were internationals which got everyones attention. One only made a few appearances, the other barely touched the first team squad. And would Moldovan be classed as never making it although he is a legend for that one goal against Villa in the Cup ? :cigar:

And thanks I've just hit the Wiki page for Coventry's Overseas players. List of Coventry City F.C. international footballers - Wikipedia
There are some I've never heard of, even though they have made at least 1 senior appearance

Onandi Lowe in 2004
Yazid Mansouri in 2004

Happy_Martian said:

We had 2 players from Honduras in the same season under Strachans reign, I think both were internationals which got everyones attention. One only made a few appearances, the other barely touched the first team squad.

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Guerro and Martinez

Kevin Thornton

Terry_dactyl said:

Jean Guy wallemme

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Agree about Jean Guy Willamme. Saw his debut for the reserves playing along side Gary Breen. The pair of them looked brilliant together and think Strachan at the time said you could have "set it to music", they really did look good that night.

After that remember seeing him at home against West Ham with big John Hartson crashing into him for 90 minutes. Don't recall seeing him in a City shirt again (could be wrong) and the next I hear is off back to France. Real shame as I thought apart from the physical side he had a lot to offer.

Calita Engonga and Debec

And all the bloody Belgiums we signed.

eastwoodsdustman said:

Jose perdomo

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Loved that crazy permed fucker. Very good technically.

Gioaccini plus the player he came with can’t think of his name

Wasn’t Jairo Martínez the guy who ran into the stand and up the stairs after scoring at an away game? Barnsley maybe.

Julian Joachim

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higgs said:

Julian Joachim

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He was born in Leicester - don't think that counts!

Nick Proschwitz on loan.
Amazingly three years before us he was signed by Hull for £2.6 million.
Last heard of being sacked by SC Paderborn 07 for exposing himself to a woman after a late night drinking session.

Moldovan and Aloisi were never given a fair go here as the manager at the time only picked players he played golf with like the awful Telfer

Tommo1993 said:

Wasn’t Jairo Martínez the guy who ran into the stand and up the stairs after scoring at an away game? Barnsley maybe.

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YES! Didn’t think I’d find it!

eastwoodsdustman said:

Jose perdomo

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Was a decent player I don’t think we could afford his wages

Perdomo was an outstanding player. He wasn’t fit and came to us in a final attempt to save his career.

It’s the anniversary of Regis Genaux’s birth today. He only started 4 times for us and complained of a Scottish mafia keeping him out at City. Moved to Udinese.