Excited when they signed but turned out to be rubbish

Hatem Trabelsi, like shit off a shovel, until he has to turn and then his ankles gave up for another 12 months
 
thepolarbear said:
Benjamin Mendy
Wilfried Bony
Jesus Navas
Nolito
Javier Garcia
Eliquim Mangala
Dare I go on...
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I was just going to post Eliaquim Mangala. I remember the excitement and hype when we signed him and I expected him to be really special. How wrong could I be.
 
GoatersLeftShin said:
From about 1985-2000 it might have been easier to pick out the ones who did well for us! Most of the players we signed in that era were turkeys! :)

Some players I remember getting excited about and then disappointed with a few weeks later:

I was at Maine Road for Alphonse Groenendijk's debut against QPR and at the time, we didn't get many Dutch players in England - especially from Ajax! The guy had a decent debut and could pick out a pass. I was sure he was going to become a legend at City.... it goes without saying he didn't become a legend and don't remember him playing much either.

I was also really excited about Ricky Holden. Oldham had produced some top class players and Holden was the one who would put in these insanely accurate crosses with plenty of whip on them. I honestly think that he could cross the ball as well as Beckham. In my mind, Holden would whip in the crosses and Quinn and White would be 25 goals each. He was absolutely awful. Not only that, he looked well out of shape too.

David Sommeil was one who should've been ideal next to Distin, but he just looked absolutely out of his depth. Many of these players had decent careers up until they signed for us then just lost whatever they had. Sommeil wasn't bad, but just disappointing.

Tony Vaughan was a big name signing in 1997 from Ipswich - around £1.5m I think it was. He was supposed to be a City fan but played like he'd had 10 pints before getting on the pitch. I remember one game where he was played as a full back and was just awful there - slicing the ball out of play. They swapped him around in the second half and he sliced it out on the other side then! He was just a poor player.

Wayne Bridge had shown glimpses of being a decent player before he came to us. When he got here, he did nothing. He was probably one (as well as Mills) of the worst pound-for-pound signings we made. He had no interest in playing for us, no desire and had no intention of getting fit.
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Christ, I just physically shuddered at the mention of Tony Vaughan
 
I really thought Bianchi was going to bang in hatfuls of goals for us. Thought he was the perfect signing - how wrong was I? We gave him a brilliant chant too.
 

Eike Immel !worst keeper i have witnessed at city followed by ​

Martyn Margetson!​

Keith MacRae was not to great neither!lol​

 
LongsightM13 said:
Thats a good shout. Hyped to the max by the football hipsters. Turned out to be utterly mediocre
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Funny story - at the time we were linked to him as well as (vaguely) to Cavani. When we got him and not Cavani my annoying football hipster friend said something to the effect of "Cavani would be good for one or two years but with Jovetic you're set for the next ten!"
 
LongsightM13 said:
Thats a good shout. Hyped to the max by the football hipsters. Turned out to be utterly mediocre
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Think he would have been alright if he'd stayed fit. I remember when we signed him, a mate of mine at the time who watched a lot of Serie A said that fans over there called him "the sick boy" because he was always missing from the team with some ailment or other. His actual goals-per-minute ratio was pretty good, he contributed to a goal every 98 mins in the Premier League, but he never got over his injury troubles even after he left. Had the ability, just didn't stay fit.
 
youngbob said:
Think he would have been alright if he'd stayed fit. I remember when we signed him, a mate of mine at the time who watched a lot of Serie A said that fans over there called him "the sick boy" because he was always missing from the team with some ailment or other. His actual goals-per-minute ratio was pretty good, he contributed to a goal every 98 mins in the Premier League, but he never got over his injury troubles even after he left. Had the ability, just didn't stay fit.
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Was still pretty decent when I saw him captain Montenegro as recent as last year, even after all his troubles. Had more than enough talent, his body (and maybe his head) just didn't cut it in top level football
 
Big Swifty said:
You mustn't have seen Ronnie Healey.......and Ellegaard must be bracketed with this lot too.
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Healey was slightly before my time, but a Blue I used to know always insisted that a bigger cause than the signing of Rodney Marsh for our failure to win the title in 1971/72 was Ron Healey having to play the last seven games or so of the season.

Ellegaard is a good shout for a terrible 'keeper. Him playing against Spurs in the FA Cup in January 2004 (the home draw before the replay featuring the amazing comeback) was the only time I ever saw defenders dropping back to try to protect a specialist goalkeeper like they often used to back in the day when there were no sub 'keepers and you got an outfield player having to keep goal instead.
 
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