The money we use to spend (1 Viewer)

Gynnsthetonic · Nov 17, 2015

Ronnie Ekelund

Terry Gibson's perm · Nov 17, 2015

Richard Spong

oscillatewildly · Nov 17, 2015

Terry Gibson's perm said:
Richard Spong

Who???

Deleted member 5849 · Nov 17, 2015

shmmeee said:
Moldovan was quality for his national team, had a ridiculous scoring record. Did well at club level before and after us I think as well. Just unlucky to come into a side with Dublin and Huckerby in top form.

Arguably his signing pushed them both into top form.

Terry Gibson's perm · Nov 17, 2015

oscillatewildly said:
Who???

A player who was going to be the best centre half in Europe but never played a game for us in four years, I think we signed him very young

SlowerThanPlatt · Nov 18, 2015

Freddie Eastwood £1.2m in recent years. Who was it who signed him? Coleman?

mechaishida · Nov 18, 2015

Seamus1 said:
Does anybody remember Martin Johansen.

Yep, was about as tall as my 3 year old daughter and barely got a kick. His brother played at Bolton and fared slightly better, if I remember correctly.

skybluesam66 · Nov 18, 2015

there were also the hondurans - one of them was martinez - cant even remember the name of the other

shmmeee · Nov 18, 2015

Began with a G I think. Gueterro or something

mechaishida · Nov 18, 2015

skybluesam66 said:
there were also the hondurans - one of them was martinez - cant even remember the name of the other

Jairo Martinez and Ivan Guerrero. Martinez was 'highly-rated' till he came here.

Guerrero, if I remember, had good technique but looked lost a lot.

mechaishida · Nov 18, 2015

Also, Martinez got 3 goals in 5 starts apparently, under Nilsson. Then he was used sporadically, then shown the door with his mate Ivan.

Speedies_Chips · Nov 18, 2015

I remember us splashing the cash on Larry Lloyd 240,000 from Liverpool and David Jones from Everton for 250,000.

Both big money at the time, but neither really came off.

Dimi_Konstantflapalot · Nov 18, 2015

SlowerThanPlatt said:
Freddie Eastwood £1.2m in recent years. Who was it who signed him? Coleman?

Yeah Coleman. Remember him saying at the time he was close to signing him at Fulham but didn't think he was ready. Retired aged 30 last year, quite some fall from grace

Nick · Nov 18, 2015

Dimi_Konstantflapalot said:
Yeah Coleman. Remember him saying at the time he was close to signing him at Fulham but didn't think he was ready. Retired aged 30 last year, quite some fall from grace

Has he retired? He was making more money from horses than football I think.

Dimi_Konstantflapalot · Nov 18, 2015

www.echo-news.co.uk/sport/blues/129...wood_backs_Shrimpers_for_automatic_promotion/

You're right. Seemed like he lost interest towards the end of his career, the end of his Cov career certainly. Sounds like he sacked it off after he got released end of 13/14 season, though wasn't widely reported.

mechaishida · Nov 18, 2015

Dimi_Konstantflapalot said:
www.echo-news.co.uk/sport/blues/12910956.Southend_United_legend_Freddy_Eastwood_backs_Shrimpers_for_automatic_promotion/

You're right. Seemed like he lost interest towards the end of his career, the end of his Cov career certainly. Sounds like he sacked it off after he got released end of 13/14 season, though wasn't widely reported.

Eastwood Building and Roofing?

For some reason, I just instantly thought of O'Reilly the pikey builder from Fawlty Towers.

stevefloyd · Nov 18, 2015

Terry Gibson's perm said:
Richard Spong

I've got a dick sponge

Joy Division · Nov 18, 2015

750k on Ysrael Zuniga who looked lost most of the time he played for us. Had a decent record at club level though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ysrael_Zúñiga

CJ_covblaze · Nov 19, 2015

mechaishida said:
Evtushok, £800 000 for a centre half who had to be hauled off after half an hour or so against Man Utd because he couldn't shit his pants up any further.

Played 6 times. Was dreadful but we some how managed to sell him back to where we bought him from for 800k.

mechaishida said:
Just checked, it's Raffelle Nuzzo, he was in goal when Tranmere stuffed us 5-1 in the Cup in '99.

"The third best keeper in Serie A"

shmmeee said:
Regis Genaux! That's the guy.

Sadly no longer with us.

RedSalmon said:
Jean-Guy Wallemme. Not sure if he cost us a lot of money. Remeber John Hartson crashing into him from a corner against west Ham. He didn't stay long after that.

"Only joined us so his kids could learn English for free"

henry the wasp · Nov 19, 2015

Joy Division said:
750k on Ysrael Zuniga who looked lost most of the time he played for us. Had a decent record at club level though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ysrael_Zúñiga

Poor old zuniga. Allegedly was supplied with a false European passport and had his signing on fee taken from him, by world cup winning argie, Renee Houseman. Houseman was our South American scout at the time. Walter Zevallos was also supposed to sign but the home office started taking an interest in Houseman. By then zevallos could not obtain a Spanish passport he/we had been promised.

oldskyblue58 · Nov 19, 2015

Think TM MV etc are proving what can be done with good financial control.

When you look at the deals that were done and the financial effect over the decades you appreciate even more what the current manager is doing.

Had we not over paid fees and salaries on a whole lot of dross then we would probably never have got to the financial calamities the club has endured or the owners we have (had)

....... but then again we probably wouldn't have had TM here at the end of it either:thinking about:

James Smith · Nov 19, 2015

CJ_covblaze said:
RedSalmon said:

Jean-Guy Wallemme. Not sure if he cost us a lot of money. Remeber John Hartson crashing into him from a corner against west Ham. He didn't stay long after that.

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"Only joined us so his kids could learn English for free"

I heard from someone on the train home after a match that he was happy here but his wife wasn't and wanted to go home. Not sure if there's any truth in that but it's what I was told.

mechaishida · Nov 19, 2015

James Smith said:
I heard from someone on the train home after a match that he was happy here but his wife wasn't and wanted to go home. Not sure if there's any truth in that but it's what I was told.

To be honest, I saw Wallemme play a few games for us, the one against West Ham is clearest in my mind; he had John Hartson battering him black and blue and he kept getting up for more, and he kept (an albeit ageing) Ian Wright quiet.

He was a decent centre-half, he just didn't adapt well. Or rather, his wife didn't.

vow · Nov 19, 2015

skybluebeduff said:
£500k for Kyle Lightbourne, let that one sink in.

The only plus from that deal is we got our money back when we sold him to Stoke. Unbelievable, i know.

mechaishida · Nov 19, 2015

vow said:
The only plus from that deal is we got our money back when we sold him to Stoke. Unbelievable, i know.

Wonder if Bryan Richardson threw his laser pen in as part of the return deal?

Grendel · Nov 19, 2015

vow said:
The only plus from that deal is we got our money back when we sold him to Stoke. Unbelievable, i know.

He was pretty well thought of at Stoke so not so unbelievable

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