City's Biggest Transfer Disaster - Burn the Cash (1 Viewer)

DannyThomas_1981

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This is obviously a highly competitive list.

In terms of money spent, money we got back and very little contribution on the pitch, Kevin Drinkell or Kevin Kyle have to be in with a pretty good shout.

Many contenders. Discuss.
 

DannyThomas_1981

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Freddie Eastwood, though he was more of a hindsight mistake. He was prolific for Southend in the Championship but never seemed to get going for us.

Eastwood was an enigma. You could see that he was great technically and had brilliant feet. But as you say it just didn't work out and we paid a very high fee.
 

Grendel

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It’s all relative in terms of time but when the club was skint we signed Ashley Grimes for a quarter of a million and he was a disaster

Garry Collier and David Jones were probably the worst
 

Grendel

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Collier and Jones have to be the worst. They were signed for a combined fee of £725,000 and were dire. Collier played two games - I think on debut it was against Stoke and he was like Malaga - it was odd and he never played in England again. Jones scored a 25 yarder - I think also against Stoke - into his own net and played 11 games before going to Hong Kong
 

HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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Bellamy. In hindsight it was a lot of money for a player who’d never played premier league football and was coming off a bad injury.

Was never going to adequately replace McCallisters assists and Keane’s goals
 

NortonSkyBlue

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Collier and Jones have to be the worst. They were signed for a combined fee of £725,000 and were dire. Collier played two games - I think on debut it was against Stoke and he was like Malaga - it was odd and he never played in England again. Jones scored a 25 yarder - I think also against Stoke - into his own net and played 11 games before going to Hong Kong
Although I believe Collier was sold for a profit
 

ccfc92

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Yes was gonna say the same fcuking useless a non trier,Seem to remember him coming on as sub at HR then getting taken off ‘injured’ after about 5 mins.
More bothered about how his hair looked!!

According to his wiki, he had a degenerative bone disease? Didn't know that, but that may explain the injuries.
 

Ring Of Steel

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Larry Lloyd has to be up there- we agreed to sell Jimmy Holmes and someone else I can’t remember for £200,000, and that was to basically pay for Lloyd, but that sale fell through and it financially crippled us, pretty sure Jimmy Hill said that we never recovered. And it’s not as if Lloyd was a success for us, we sold at a big loss.
 

rob9872

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Kyle
Drinkell
Hughes
Bellamy
 

Ring Of Steel

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He’d get nowhere near worst buys but I thought Garry Bannister was a huge let down, he was probably the most natural finisher we had between Gibson and Quinn, but he never delivered for us like he could/ should have done. That 88/89 team was superb and I was all hyped up that between him, Speedie, Regis, Smith we would score shitloads of goals.
 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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Bit left field but John Hartson. Not for the player, who was great in his short time with us, but the timing. It took so long to get it done by the time he was through the door it was too late. Had we got it through we may have had a chance to stay up.

Lightbourne and Haworth were awful, as were Delorge and Normann. Not massive fees but really never looked up to it.

Another that I remember annoying was Andy Impey. On a free but got quite a bit of appearance money and was brought on for 30 seconds at the end of matches. Must have spent a fortune on those at a time we were broke.
 

clint van damme

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I did debate not putting him just for that goal against villa but for the money we paid for him at the time he was poor

Strachan said his arrival spurred Dublin and Huckerby on to greater things.
He tried to shoehorn the of them in against Chelsea away and it didn't work and brought a decent unbeaten run to an end if I remember correctly.
 

Adge

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Bellamy is the obvious candidate of more recent times. Leon McKenzie is another good shout.
Not that he cost anything 2nd time around but the prodigal son McSheffrey was a disaster when he returned. To think some people wanted him for a third tome too!
 

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