Excited when they signed but turned out to be rubbish

[citymad]

Mendy,Mangala,Bony and Jo because they came with big reputations and price tags. Glad those days of signing woeful players are over.…for now anyway.

 

[radcliffe1309]

Barry Silkman

 

[unlikelyfan19]

Stefan Jovetic

 

[BusterPhillips]

Anyone mentioned Buster Philips?

 

[Debaser]

Nery Castillo.
Paid his own transfer fee then got injured on his debut.

He was fucking deadly in PES and I was so excited to see him play, just constantly injured.

 

[Winchester]

Bobby Shinton

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Stefan Jovetic

He is in the final two with Samaras for the 'something about them' award.

 

[JRockBlues]

I always thought Fowler got a bit of a bad rap and was actually pretty decent for us.

McManaman on the other hand was as useful as a chocolate teapot.

As well as for the obvious, Fowler is tainted for missing the penalty that would have seen us in Europe.

 

[Big Swifty]

Bobby Shinton

Come off it - excited about Shinton? Irony, I suspect....

I fear I was excited about getting a couple of tough new specialist full-backs in the summer of 2004 (we needed some then).

Alas, they were Danny Mills & Ben Thatcher. How wrong I was.

 

[Salford in the City]

George Weah.

Big name, who definitely disappointed.

 

[how soon is now]

Steve Daly for me loved Trevor Francis but always frigging injured

 

[MCFCOK2305]

Jovetic. Shiny new striker, arrived in sunglasses.

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

Thought Samaras was going to be shit hot based off that 240p YouTube video. I was half right.

 

[93.20]

I had fairly high hopes for Roque Santa Cruz. Alas!

 

[unlikelyfan19]

I had fairly high hopes for Roque Santa Cruz. Alas!

So did my wife

 

[jimharri]

Too lazy to go through the whole thread, but Mike Channon (guessing he's already been nominated). Established England International when we signed him, but he never really delivered consistently for us.

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Wish Yasser got longer

 

[Mifred]

Too lazy to go through the whole thread, but Mike Channon (guessing he's already been nominated). Established England International when we signed him, but he never really delivered consistently for us.

Barney Daniels

 

[JGL07]

Jovetic. Shiny new striker, arrived in sunglasses.

I seem to recall him scoring two goals in a win over Liverpool.

His problem was always staying fit for more than two matches in a row.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

I had fairly high hopes for Roque Santa Cruz. Alas!

You must have been the only blue on Planet Earth to think that