| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? 10:12 - Aug 28 with 6148 views | CopfordBlue |
I don’t mean a free transfer from the League of Ireland that didn’t cut it. I’m talking about a player with some hype around them and that you were really excited when they signed that ended up being a let down?
Lots to choose from but I’ll go for Adrian Paz (although that was after I’d got over the disappointment of it not being Batistuta as initially reported). For the first few games he got a free pass as he was settling in but it then became increasingly clear he either just wasn’t that good or at least he wasn’t right for us. He had a few good moments but not enough. Thankfully Taricco who came with him more than made up for it eventually. |  |
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| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:14 - Aug 28 with 3480 views | Perublue |
Bullard undoubtedly for me
The permanent signing just to confirm… which is why after the spectacular loan it was even more frustrating. [Post edited 28 Aug 10:23]
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| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:15 - Aug 28 with 3479 views | left_foot |
Not at the same level as that, but I thought we were getting a much better player than we did when we signed Ben Johnson | | | |
| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:16 - Aug 28 with 3445 views | jayessess |
Think relatively to what we needed at the time James Norwood and Alan Judge were a huge disappointment. Not that they were particularly terrible relative to the team they were in but their chunky wages represented basically the only significant investment we made the Summer after going down. Judge we even turned down a decent fee for straight after signing him. We desperately needed both to work out and neither really did at the level necessary. |  |
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| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:17 - Aug 28 with 3424 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
Chopra and Bullard would be right up there for me.
Honourable mention for Andy Marshall. |  |
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| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:18 - Aug 28 with 3384 views | CopfordBlue |
| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:17 - Aug 28 by The_Flashing_Smile |
Chopra and Bullard would be right up there for me.
Honourable mention for Andy Marshall. |
Good call about Chopra, maybe I was a bit hasty going for Paz. | |
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| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:21 - Aug 28 with 3356 views | Len_Brennan |
Stuart Slater
Nick Forster & Sam Parkin
Jimmy Bullard
Jonny Parr
Emyr Huws
Aro Muric | |
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| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:22 - Aug 28 with 3315 views | DanTheMan |
For reasons I can't quite explain, I thought Lee Martin was going to be great for us. |  |
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| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:22 - Aug 28 with 3307 views | soupytwist |
The signing of Stuart Slater didn't go as well I hoped it might.
Edited to correct that I thought he'd played for us already, but he hadn't. [Post edited 28 Aug 10:24]
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| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:24 - Aug 28 with 3275 views | baxterbasics |
Shefki Kuqi - the second coming. |  |
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| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:25 - Aug 28 with 3256 views | ArchiRob |
Stuart Slater
Mind you no protection from refs
Paz
His first game was awsome and then......... |  |
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| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:25 - Aug 28 with 3240 views | ITFCSG |
Pound-for-pound definitely Muric
At least the other dross in the lower leagues were cheap or free | | | |
| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:26 - Aug 28 with 3232 views | Garv |
| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:17 - Aug 28 by The_Flashing_Smile |
Chopra and Bullard would be right up there for me.
Honourable mention for Andy Marshall. |
Just a reminder, 14 goals for Chopra in his first season. |  |
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| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:27 - Aug 28 with 3214 views | Vic |
Kevin O'Callaghan. Bought as the next bright thing and future of the team. But while he did OK, for me he never hit the heights we needed. |  |
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| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:28 - Aug 28 with 3194 views | TrumptonBlue |
| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:25 - Aug 28 by ArchiRob |
Stuart Slater
Mind you no protection from refs
Paz
His first game was awsome and then......... |
Just a reminder, Paz was Fisons Player of the Month for November 1994. |  | | |
| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:29 - Aug 28 with 3179 views | BlueandTruesince82 |
Nigel Reo Coker, may have been me having some bias around his time at Wet Spam rather than then Villa and Bolton but he seemed like exactly the kind of experienced midfielder General we needed, he'd (i think) captained Spam to the FA cup final a couple seasons before and played plenty of PL football.
He was cr@p. Plain and simple.
Grant Ward but only due to the let down after such a huge debut |  |
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| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:33 - Aug 28 with 3118 views | FlittonBlue |
Surprised no mention yet for Finidi George - looked to be the final jigsaw piece to take us on, ended up being a one game wonder who aged rapidly before our eyes (whatever age he was supposed to be) | |
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| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:35 - Aug 28 with 3088 views | IndependentlyBlue |
Venice Sumilikoski (sp?) - the Gerrard of the ….
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Dishonourable mention to Amir Karić
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| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:36 - Aug 28 with 3082 views | positivity |
| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:25 - Aug 28 by ITFCSG |
Pound-for-pound definitely Muric
At least the other dross in the lower leagues were cheap or free |
if it's pound for pound we're talking, then i can't see past ulrich le pen.
we could make a profit on muric! | |
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| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:39 - Aug 28 with 3003 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:26 - Aug 28 by Garv |
Just a reminder, 14 goals for Chopra in his first season. |
yeah, good point, not bad. Makes the way it ended feel even worse, if anything.
I don't think you can get much worse than a signing who caused gangsters to turn up at training! | |
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| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:46 - Aug 28 with 2929 views | BelsteadCav |
Andy Marshall
I still believe to this day if we’d kept Sereni in goal we would have stayed up |  |
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| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:47 - Aug 28 with 2921 views | _CliveBaker_ |
Some good suggestions so far.
I'd add Cajuste last season. Thought he looked OK in the Premier League at times and his quality would set him apart in the Championship, but he just didn't look remotely interested. Whether it was fitness or desire I don't know, but he was utter garbage. |  | | |
| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 10:53 - Aug 28 with 2824 views | CustardCream |
Paul Taylor hands down. |  | | |
| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 12:01 - Aug 28 with 2440 views | homer_123 |
Le Pen
The Macedonian Gerrard
Kevin O (as mentioned below) |  |
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| Most disappointed you’ve ever been with a player we signed? on 12:03 - Aug 28 with 2407 views | CrockerITFC |
Michael Chopra |  | | |
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