| The new signing that disappointed you the most 07:17 - Jan 15 with 5569 views | Churchman |
This is not about the biggest waste of money or anything like that but about the player we brought in that you thought would be a perfect fit and really do it for us.
My nomination: Stuart Slater.
Looked a cracking little player at West Ham. Born in Sudbury, 23/24 years old, brought in for £750k by John Lyall from Celtic who knew a good footballer when he saw one. What was not to like? A steal.
Turned out to be a robbery. Basically, he wasn’t very good and his career dribbled away. |  | | |  |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 07:20 - Jan 15 with 2846 views | tonybied |
JET, I thought he was going to be an absolute superstar for us. I even named the dog we had just got at the time after him. |  | | |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 07:32 - Jan 15 with 2786 views | Plums |
Veliče Šumulikoski. When you're heralded as the Macedonian Gerrard, a sense of expectation pervades your arrival. It soon became clear that the only similarities were pretty circumstantial.
It wasn't his fault and he wasn't terrible. |  |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 07:41 - Jan 15 with 2713 views | leftback |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 07:20 - Jan 15 by tonybied |
JET, I thought he was going to be an absolute superstar for us. I even named the dog we had just got at the time after him. |
If all his shots had been half an inch closer to the goal he would’ve gone down as a legend |  | | |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 07:45 - Jan 15 with 2677 views | Dubtractor |
3 good shouts so far.
I think I'd give a vote for sam Parkin. Came to us after scoring loads of goals at Swindon, and i thought we'd signed a proper goalscoring forward. He looked every bit a lower league forward playing above his level though, one of the least mobile strikers we've ever had.
Feels a bit mean to suggest him in some ways, as he was really a product of our financial situation at the time, but he was pretty hopeless for us and I was expecting much more. |  |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 07:48 - Jan 15 with 2661 views | Papillon64 |
Eddie Youds. |  | | |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 07:52 - Jan 15 with 2634 views | EJP |
Tamás Priskin
£1.7million, was with us for 3 years, and including us played for 4 clubs, scoring 8 goals in 73 appearances. Yes he scored the winner against Arsenal, but frankly, that was it.
Honorable mention to Lee Martin, bought by Roy Keane at the beginning of the 2009 season, and transfer listed at the end of it ... |  | | |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 07:55 - Jan 15 with 2606 views | Metal_Hacker |
Obvious one for me is Jimmy Bullard |  |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 07:57 - Jan 15 with 2600 views | Steve_M |
Yes, Slater is top of my list. Probably something about still being young enough to be (fairly) uncynical about football. Just didn't cut it, even after relegation.
Of the others mentioned:
Shumi suffered from the ludicrous Gerrard comparison and Magilton's Supermarket Sweep approach to stockpiling midfielders. He was a decent player when he did play though.
Sam Parkin suffered from Royle trying to play him like Kuqi even though he was a different player (see also Scowcroft when he came back on loan) and Royle's complete lack of interest in coaching and improving players. Particularly careless given how skint we were at that point.
Eddie Youds, yeah that's a big one. Injury and a lack of professionalism wasn't it? |  |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 07:58 - Jan 15 with 2591 views | Len_Brennan |
Adrian Paz.
He wasn't really that much of a disappointment in himself, given that we'd never really heard of him beforehand, but he was a South American International striker, which was still pretty exciting at that time, so we were hopeful.
Of course the main reason for our disappointment is that he was supposed to be the Archangel himself, Gabriel Battistuta, with Oscar Ruggeri in tow. | |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 07:59 - Jan 15 with 2578 views | Churchman |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 07:45 - Jan 15 by Dubtractor |
3 good shouts so far.
I think I'd give a vote for sam Parkin. Came to us after scoring loads of goals at Swindon, and i thought we'd signed a proper goalscoring forward. He looked every bit a lower league forward playing above his level though, one of the least mobile strikers we've ever had.
Feels a bit mean to suggest him in some ways, as he was really a product of our financial situation at the time, but he was pretty hopeless for us and I was expecting much more. |
That’s a great nomination. His reputation and goal scoring record at Swindon, we speculated ‘hello, have we signed another Mariner?’. Nope, we’d signed Capt ffing Birds Eye.
I saw his home debut. He did his best I’m sure, but my god he was poor. ‘maybe he just needs to get up to speed?’. Nope, there was only the one speed. | | | |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 08:04 - Jan 15 with 2533 views | FrimleyBlue |
Akpom
Thought hed be a massive hit this season. Just hasn't turned out that way.
Shows great attributes at times. He seems quick. Can be direct and shows some good feet but never really comes out of a game looking great
Past... keenan bennetts.. looked like such a busy player but in the end was just pretty rubbish. |  |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 08:08 - Jan 15 with 2498 views | norfsufblue |
Stuart Slater for sure, ....
As double signing Neil Woods and Ian Redford really excited me at the start of John Duncans reign but hit nowhere near the heights I thought they would although I always had a linger hope Redford would eventually come good, sadly it never really happened. |  | | |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 08:10 - Jan 15 with 2492 views | bluesym |
Mark Stuart on loan from Charlton,tore Watford apart on his debut and then was crap!
More recently Tommy Oar. |  |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 08:14 - Jan 15 with 2461 views | Mookamoo |
Lee Martin
I thought if anyone knew of a Man Utd starlet we could get and add some creativity then it had to be Keane.
Oh how wrong I was.
Nearly 2 million on that. [Post edited 15 Jan 8:15]
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 08:16 - Jan 15 with 2424 views | GlasgowBlue |
More recently, Scott Fraser. Scored 14 goals and provided six assists from midfield in the season before joining us. Played out of position by Cook, missed a penalty and it went downhill from there. |  |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most (n/t) on 08:17 - Jan 15 with 2413 views | ArchiRob |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 08:22 - Jan 15 with 2378 views | BlueBoots |
You can have one each signed by our most recent managers:
KMcK: Kalvin Phillips - so far short of the levels he showed he was capable of in his Leeds / England days.
Cook: Rekeem Harper - looked (at least) a cut above League One level from what I saw of him before he signed, but hardly kicked a ball for us.
I'll give a free pass to the Evans-era managers after he got his fingers burnt bankrolling Roy Keane in the transfer market, Lee Martin being the biggest waste of it in my opinion. |  |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 08:23 - Jan 15 with 2377 views | ArchiRob |
Snap his FA cup goal West Ham was so good .
So easily pushed off the ball for us.
I remember a news report saying that Ipswich had a Mason, a Slater, a Marshall, ect, ect but they didn't have a footballer.. summed him up | |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 08:24 - Jan 15 with 2375 views | NedPlimpton |
Ivar Ingimarsson
A Reading legend and lots of their fans telling us how sad they were to see him go. I thought he'd be a Mowbray type, experienced head to sure up our defence.
Instead we got a handful of some of the worst performances I've seen in a town shirt followed by a mid-season retirement |  | | |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 08:26 - Jan 15 with 2355 views | ArchiRob |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 07:58 - Jan 15 by Len_Brennan |
Adrian Paz.
He wasn't really that much of a disappointment in himself, given that we'd never really heard of him beforehand, but he was a South American International striker, which was still pretty exciting at that time, so we were hopeful.
Of course the main reason for our disappointment is that he was supposed to be the Archangel himself, Gabriel Battistuta, with Oscar Ruggeri in tow. |
His first game was awesome and nothing after that
We did get Tarrico as part of the deal so not the worst really. | |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 08:26 - Jan 15 with 2354 views | DarkBrandon |
Adrian Paz maybe.
I've always like a glamorous foreign signing, and he actually started very brightly in his first couple of games. But then drifted down to become just a lightweight striker/winger.
More recently (and at my age I'm not really disappointed by these things) if Phillips and Muric had played to the levels that McKenna and Ashton thought they would/could we'd have stayed up ... |  | | |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 08:29 - Jan 15 with 2335 views | Churchman |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 07:52 - Jan 15 by EJP |
Tamás Priskin
£1.7million, was with us for 3 years, and including us played for 4 clubs, scoring 8 goals in 73 appearances. Yes he scored the winner against Arsenal, but frankly, that was it.
Honorable mention to Lee Martin, bought by Roy Keane at the beginning of the 2009 season, and transfer listed at the end of it ... |
Priskin is a good shout, but I’d seen him play for Watford and thought him a nothing player then so my expectations were low - and amply fulfilled. Lightweight doesn’t really cover it. | | | |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 08:31 - Jan 15 with 2322 views | surreyblue |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 07:45 - Jan 15 by Dubtractor |
3 good shouts so far.
I think I'd give a vote for sam Parkin. Came to us after scoring loads of goals at Swindon, and i thought we'd signed a proper goalscoring forward. He looked every bit a lower league forward playing above his level though, one of the least mobile strikers we've ever had.
Feels a bit mean to suggest him in some ways, as he was really a product of our financial situation at the time, but he was pretty hopeless for us and I was expecting much more. |
Same here, particularly partnered with Nicky Forster who had done a number on us a couple of seasons prior. Look, they weren't Bent and Kuqi, but surely they would be able to lead a playoff hunt?
How disappointing. | | | |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 08:37 - Jan 15 with 2263 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
Kyle Edwards recently. Will never forget the excitement seeing him away at Cheltenham. The word unplayable get thrown around a lot but he was literally walking through them |  |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 08:40 - Jan 15 with 2240 views | norfsufblue |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 07:52 - Jan 15 by EJP |
Tamás Priskin
£1.7million, was with us for 3 years, and including us played for 4 clubs, scoring 8 goals in 73 appearances. Yes he scored the winner against Arsenal, but frankly, that was it.
Honorable mention to Lee Martin, bought by Roy Keane at the beginning of the 2009 season, and transfer listed at the end of it ... |
We traded Jordan Rhodes in for him!... I mean that does probably make him the winner of this contest. | | | |
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