City's Biggest Transfer Disaster - Burn the Cash (1 Viewer)
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Johhny Blue
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THAT goal was worth the fee
fernandopartridge
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He scored more than that but yeah I was thinking about him, him and Daish signed on the same day and we got less than 2 seasons from the pair of them. Think between them they cost £3m
Grendel
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Daish was rubbish
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Taking a risk here but big Mo was a bit of a disaster certainly at the start of his career here
hinckley cov
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I thought we paid just over200,000 for Gary collier, are you saying we paid 500,000 for David Jones ?
Grendel
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I meant 6 not 7 collier was £350,000 I’m sure as he was I think the first player to have a fee decided by a tribunal - jones is reported at £275,000
Blind-Faith
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Thought Mckenzie was ok. Eastwood and Kyle for sure. I have only supported us since our first year in the championship so haven’t really got an opinion on the PL years.
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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I seem to remember that we signed a player who had to go to tribunal and the figure the tribunal came up with was higher than what the team selling wanted. We avoided tribunals after that. May have been Peter Atherton?
SlowerThanPlatt
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I think we paid a tribunal fee of £650k for Gary Borrowdale
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SlowerThanPlatt
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And at the risk of upsetting an old poster the reported £400,000 for Cody McDonald doesn’t look too smart. Another sizeable investment who left for free
fernandopartridge
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Under Atkinson and Strachan we signed numerous centre backs and they were all generally poor bar Breen:
Shaw £1m
Williams £750k (albeit signed as a defensive midfielder)
Daish £1.5m
Evtushok £800k I think
Wallemne?
Konjic £2m
It's the biggest failing of that era, we had some good attacking players but on such a flaky base
Shaw £1m
Williams £750k (albeit signed as a defensive midfielder)
Daish £1.5m
Evtushok £800k I think
Wallemne?
Konjic £2m
It's the biggest failing of that era, we had some good attacking players but on such a flaky base
Speedies_Chips
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I'm thinking Tim Sherwood but can't remember what we paid for him. Maybe free and high salary?
Seemed to be injured a lot.
And who was that one from Blackburn who had a serious motobike accident?
Seemed to be injured a lot.
And who was that one from Blackburn who had a serious motobike accident?
shmmeee
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Matt Jansen?
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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Matt Jansen
Speedies_Chips
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That him yes. Thanks. Didnt he cost us a lot?
Ring Of Steel
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He was just on loan/ trial I think, I don’t think we paid anything for him. He scored against Leicester I think then totally disappeared.
fernandopartridge
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He came out later and said that he'd just lost interest by then, he'd been in a serious motorbike accident and think he had PTSD or something. Shame as he was a good player earlier in his career.
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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Yeah, think he was on loan.
Ring Of Steel
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yeah I wasn’t being disrespectful to him at all, I think he said that the accident took away all passion for the game, and he was afraid to even head the ball in case he aggravated his injuries.
Danceswithhorses
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Jairo Martinez and Ysrael Zuniga.
BR's attempt to 'buy cheap' in S.America, to sell on.
Not a success.
BR's attempt to 'buy cheap' in S.America, to sell on.
Not a success.
AStonesThrow
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Laurent Delorge, hyped up on arrival, delayed debut under Strachan, had a big Hiwula-style fall out with Strachan, didn’t play again until Nilsson took over, only scored 4 goals and didn’t do much else
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clint van damme
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the biggest transfer disaster was probably not signing Hartson when we first had chance, probably cost us our premier league place.
Skyblueweeman
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Robert Jarni. Never saw him do anything decent in a Cov shirt when we signed him. At least we made a profit!
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Legia Sky Blue
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I didn't think Jones was that bad a player on the rare occasions he played, but unfortunately he was injury prone, and yes we certainly didn't get our money's worth from him. Around this same time we had tried to sign Kevin Beattie who was a great player but also injury prone, so we pulled out of the deal on medical grounds. Beattie was a different class to Collier and Jones, but nevertheless given we invested so much into signing the 2 of them its surprising that Milne didn't look to play them more often.
Before that we had also signed Bryan King from Millwall and Keith Osgood from Spurs, who also turned into disappointing signings. The emergence of Jim Blyth and later Les Sealey meant King's failure to shine didn't affect us too badly. Osgood seemed a decent enough player, and was someone we perhaps should have stuck with rather than signing Collier and Jones.
Legia Sky Blue
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Yes he was disappointing, but I thought at the time we were premature to get rid of him so quickly. He was a young lad, getting used to being away from Scotland and who was going to get better with experience. His subsequent career in Scotland was a very good one too. We also made a profit on him in transfer fees, so doesn't really fit with the OP's criteria.
mrtrench
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I agree that maybe we should have stuck with him - given him more time. But he was very disappointing whilst he was here. McFadz had a similar, albeit better, start and he's come good.
Legia Sky Blue
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I thought Daish was a pretty good defender, certainly better than Shaw and Williams.
bradwellskyblues
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David Bradford
Chris Chilton
Keith o,NEIL
Chris Chilton
Keith o,NEIL
larry_david
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Was there a striker who failed a medical? Lund? Something like that? If so what happened to him after did he do anything?
