waste of money signings (1 Viewer)

[CovScott88]

Zuniga scored bucket loads everywhere else he went as well, sadly.

I can't believe no-one has said Runnar Normann...thanks, Strachan! Note how he is responsible for so many of our bad Prem signings? Or was it all down to Richardsons dodgy "player investment scheme" (AKA "Sky Blue Money Laundering Inc."), ah...

Runar Normann and Laurent Delorge were both signed with big reputations as quality young players. Safe to say that neither worked out though.

 

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[Regis87]

I actually thought Paul Trollope was ok

 

[paul1978]

Eastwood 108 apps, 17 goals, says it all really :/

lol hear hear i agree his hopeless!!!

 

[Ernie Machin]

Craig Bellamy.

Yeah we got our money back on him, but he was rubbish considering he was replacing Keano.

And the fact he's a grade A Stefan.

 

[sw88]

I actually thought Paul Trollope was ok

Thank god your not team manager

 

[Ernie Machin]

The Atkinson/Strachan era was horrendous, considering the money that we had.

One name I've just remembered. Alex Evtushok. FML.

 

[Ernie Machin]

The Strachan nightmare:



In
Date Player From Fee
1996
Nov Darren Huckerby Newcastle £1m
1997
Jan Gary Breen Birmingham £2.5m
Feb Alexandr Evtushok Karpaty £800,000
May Simon Haworth Cardiff £500,000
June Trond Soltvedt Rosenborg £500,000
July Magnus Hedman AIK Solna £500,000
Kyle Lightbourne Walsall £500,000
Roland Nilsson Helsingborgs £200,000
Martin Johansen FC Copenhagen Free
Dec George Boateng Feyenoord £250,000
1998
Jan Viorel Moldovan Grasshopper £3.25m
June Jean-Guy Wallemme Lens £700,000
July Ian Brightwell Manchester C Free
Philippe Clement Racing Genk £625,000
Aug Paul Hall Portsmouth £300,000
Robert Jarni Real Betis £2.6m
Marc Edworthy Crystal Palace £800,000
Oct Steve Froggatt Wolves £1.9m
Laurent Delorge Gent £1.25m
Dec Morten Hyldegaard Ikast £255,000
John Aloisi Portsmouth £650,000
1999
Jan Muhammed Konjic Monaco £2m
May Youssef Chippo FC Porto £1.2m
July Mustapha Hadji D La Coruna £4m
Runar Normann Lillestrom £1m
Aug Robbie Keane Wolves £6m
Sept Carlton Palmer Nottingham F £500,000
Dec Tomas Gustaffson AIK Stockholm £250,000
2000
Jan Cedric Roussel FC Ghent £1.2m
Feb Ysrael Zuniga FCB Melga £750,000
Colin Hendry Rangers £750,000
July Jay Bothroyd Arsenal £1m
Aug Craig Bellamy Norwich £6.5m
David Thompson Liverpool £3m
Sept Ivan Guerrero Motagua Unknown
Jairo Martinez Motagua Unknown
Dec Andreas Dahl IFK Hasselholm £300,000
Lee Carsley Blackburn £1.75m
Per Fahlman Alnas IF Unknown
2001
Feb John Hartson Wimbledon Undisclosed
Total £49,280,000

 

[CovLis86]

Can pick probably 4 good transfers out of that.

 

[Regis87]

I can pick 14 good transfers out of that

 

[CovScott88]

I picked 13 good'uns

 

[Regis87]

Hartson , Thompson , Keane , Hadji , Chippo , Konjic , Froggatt , Boateng , Aloisi ,Nilsson , Hedman , Soltvedt , Breen and Huckerby and Moldovan for his goal at Villa Park
All good signings

 

[CovScott88]

My 13 were Huckerby, Breen, Hedman, Nilsson, Boateng, Froggatt, Konjic, Chippo, Hadji, Keane, Thompson, Carsley and Hartson.

 

[ccfcway]

i pride myself on being an obsessive CCFC fan, but I havent heard of Per Fahlman

 

[TheRoyalScam]

Can pick probably 4 good transfers out of that.

Can almost pick 2 teams out of that:

Hedman

Nilsson ---- Breen ---- Konjic ---- Guerrero

Thompson ---- Chippo ---- Hadji ---- Froggatt

Keane ---- Hartson​

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Huckerby ---- Roussel ---- Moldovan

Boateng ---- Carsley ---- Soltvedt

Jarni[!] ---- Wallemme ---- Clement ---- Edworthy

Hyldegaard​

Subs: Aloisi, Palmer, Gustaffson [Antolenius!], Delorge, Zuniga, Bellamy, Bothroyd

Interesting that the majority of these signings were forwards - they were bought by consortia rather than the football management with a view to keep them as squad players for a short while before selling them on to make a profit. Strachan is quoted as saying he didn't know half of the players in the squad.

 

[sw88]

i pride myself on being an obsessive CCFC fan, but I havent heard of Per Fahlman

Me neither! Is this an actal signing we made?

I dont recognise Alexandr Evtushok either! Do recognise every other one though, not all for good reasons!

 

[Regis87]

Evtushuk lasted about 20 mins on his debut at Old Trafford before being substituted for being shit

 

[Disorganised1]

Surely the worst and most expensive signing has to be Terry Butcher ?

 

[Kuklinski]

Evtushock I liked. He was very cute at kicking players when the ball had been laid off. I was most disappointed when he left. Especially when you consider who played in his position - Shaw and bloody Williams.

 

[SkyBluesAndy]

Kevin Kyle is the worst - especially as he was bought using some of the McSheffrey money :facepalm::facepalm:

 

[Nonleagueherewecome]

Have Walleme or Genaux been mentioned?

I think Fahlmann was a Swedish GK. We had a few Italians and a Swede called Spong or Sprong in the youth team. Some of them were good on Championship Manager as it was then!

Lee Mills was another rubbish one I just remembered, argh.

 

[Kuklinski]

Wallame was a class above, you could see that quite clearly. Unfortunately he was homesick so we allowed him to go.

 

[ashbyjan]

Allegedly obviously - A lot of the signings during the Richardson / Strachan era were doen for individuals financial gain rather than for team building reasons. A few people made a lot of money at that time - team remained mediocre and steadily got worse. Many murky deals, middle men and shady payments and a lot of mediocre players at inflated fees.

 

[Pigeon]

Kyle! I remember fans cheering at his red card
Kevin Thornton worth a shout.

 

[Moff]

Walleme, looked like a vagrant with his shaggy 'grizzly adams' type beard, but was hard. He left Lens the French champions to join us, god knows why, swapping Champions league for Barnsley at home!!!

Evtushock had promise but left due to immigration issues, and I dont know if we ever got the cash back.

Delorge had promise but broke his leg and was never the same again, whilst Runar Norman was just plain cr*p.

I wont even mention Genaux, especially as he is no longer with us, but thomas Gustaffson was highly rated, here one minute gone the next, and is now the artist fornerlay known as Gustafson as he changed his name to Thomas Antonelius. why??

Richard Spong was another and perhaps sums up why we went into so much debt. Youth team player, from sweden, who although was highly rated should never have been on 5k a week:facepalm:

 

[jackdg]

Gustafsson changed his name to Antonelius as that was his wifes surname and apparently it was dying out in Sweden so Tomas just adopted it as his own.

Think there are some harsh ones in the list, Stern John scored for fun compared to the majority of strikers we've had since. I think Strachan's signings were all with the best intentions.

If we're slating any manager for signings the buck has to stop with Peter Reid... Truly truly appauling.

Biggest waste of money in my memory would have to be Keith O'Neill just for the amount of time we actually paid the bloke!

 

[huckerby87]

Got to be Keith ONeill

 

[ccfcdan]

Didn't we also sign two of Strachans sons? One of there names was Gavin but the others escapes me. Would be interesting to see how much he was paying them!

 

[Moff]

The other son was Craig, who only made it to youth level when we let him go due to a knee injury that finished his career

 

[skybluesteve76]

Keith oneil by a country mile!!

 

[ccfc2011]

kevin kyle

 

[egastap]

Bang for the buck has to be Tim Sherwood. What a plank....no, that's what he looked like on the physio's table!