Our worst signings

[boomer39]

of the top of my head, tony hateley.....

[DaveT]

Hicks and Gillett

[Agent Smith]

Don't forget (or do), Mark "Speedy" Gonzalez.

[WaltonRed]

Nunez, Josemi, Kromkamp are on the list albeit towards the bottom of it

 

David James i'd put on it too

[PaulMcC]

Kromkamp was better than Downing. Nunez done more than Downing.

[aws]

Joe Cole. £30m including wages for someone way past his best.

[Redder Lurtz]

Don't forget (or do), Mark "Speedy" Gonzalez.

 

You beat me to it. All the fucking about for a couple of years, sorting loan deals out for him etc so we could get him a work permit and he was fucking shite.

[WaltonRed]

Kromkamp was better than Downing. Nunez done more than Downing.

 

Probably cos Rafa signed them that

[PaulMcC]

Probably cos Rafa signed them that

 

Cos Downing is fucking shit. They also cost a combined 2m or something.

[Lee909]

----------------Kirkland

Degen---Babb-----Ruddock--Dicks

 

-----------Poulson--Aqualani

 

Diouf-------------Cole-----Downing

 

-----------------Keane

Scales

Dossena

[Mr Nando]

Probably cos Rafa signed them that

 

Mental.

[PaulMcC]

Gonzalez was such a let down. No composure at all.

[Jonny83]

Josemi/Kromkamp didn't we pretty much get our money back on those? i.e. what we paid for Josemi vs. what we sold Kromkamp for, with the straight swap of the two in the middle. Don't remember hearing that either were on piss-takingly massive wages either although I may be wrong on that. Plus I don't remember Kromkamp being that bad, was hardly an inspired signing I know but I don't think he deserves to be in this particular squad or XI either.

 

Difference between worst players and worst signings, hence why Downing is (rightfully) featuring so much despite being more mediocre than utter shite.

Edited May 29, 2012 by Jonny83

[Jairzinho]

Not easy this. We've bought some real shit. Could put together a pretty pathetic XI from the last three or four years. Its only really at centreback in that time that we've not bought some complete stinkers.

[SCOUSE TAPAS]

Ziggy ziggy Ziege.

[WaltonRed]

VORONIN

[SAXON]

Aquilani has to be our worse signing. He is not the worse player we have ever signed but when you consider the money we paid on him, and the crock he was, he has to be up there.

[General Dryness]

glen handball Hysen? And that lad, the irish lad we signed from milwall? had a big fat arse.

 

Mark Kennedy. My overriding memory of him is of him vainly trying to put in a cross that was more than 2 inches off the ground in that hideous UEFA cup exit to the mighty Brondby. We were knocked out by a goal from a player three fifths of whose name was Egg.

 

Dark times.

[Mr T]

Downing, Carroll, Henderson, Adam.

[jonnybastard]

Does Michael Owen count?

[lebron]

How anyone can look beyond Paul Stewart for this one I'll never know. 2.3 million for that piece of crap back in 1992 was beyond all apprehension. I had a Spurs mate that was delighted we had taken him off their hands, and how right he was! 42 games (3 goals - hooray!), and loaned out for the next two (three?) seasons, as no-one were silly enough to buy him. Sound familiar? Aquilani is basically Stewart mkII, but with a hell of a lot more talent!

 

The Souness days.... shudder...Even if FSG turn out to be the worst owners in the history of sport, they will never be able to hurt us as much as Souness did over those few disastrous years.

[aiyic]

Mark Kennedy. My overriding memory of him is of him vainly trying to put in a cross that was more than 2 inches off the ground in that hideous UEFA cup exit to the mighty Brondby. We were knocked out by a goal from a player three fifths of whose name was Egg.

 

Dark times.

 

I had Mark Kennedy as a passenger when I was a taxidriver in about 1999. Picked him up from Copper Face Jacks when the birds started to sing, after an Ireland swaray. Dropped him at his Ma's in Blanch. A more obnoxious prick I haven't met since. He was out on loan I think at the time. He had two mobile phones on him - in 1999. Complaining about pricks in Ireland and bitches in England. Asshole!

 

Never, I mean NEVER, meet your heroes.

 

Fair was a tenner dead-on - which is what I got from him.

 

 

 

\/0rON|n Aaaagh!

 

[WaltonRed]

Mark Kennedy liked a drink...allegedly

[No2]

Mark Kennedy liked a drink...allegedly

 

He's still playing or was until very recently. He was a left back for some shit team, possibly in league 1.

[Saucepan]

Ketchup-Karl