Excited when they signed but turned out to be rubbish

When i was a kid , early/mid 80s, i would be beyond excited with every summer signing. Running into my dads bedroom with a paper with a story that we’d signed tony cunningham! Only for dad to burst my bubble by saying, “hes shite son”
 
This could take me a while. I have been going since 77 and there are loads and loads. Crocky santa cruz sticks out.
 
Might be controversial here but when we re-signed Peter Barnes I was incredibly excited because he was my hero as a little kid and the reason I am a City fan. Plus I absolutely hated the fact he was at United; “how fucking dare they sign him!”

Sadly it didn’t happen for him second time around.
 
kinky's boots said:
I'm going to shock you now... He's 41 and he's still playing. In fact, he's just won four domestic titles in a row according to wiki
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I'll admit I'm surprised but I'm not sure Libertad are at the same level as City currently.
Hughes is still managing, but at Bradford City. Something I'd forgotten about until I saw him walk across the pitch at Barrow on Saturday.
 
Bobby the blue said:
I was listening to that under the cosh podcast this week and Nicky Weaver was talking about Ousmane Dabo. I remember being really excited at this signing. I was on holiday in Rhodes at the time it was announced sitting in a bar with the wife watching sky sports news when it flashed up.
Obviously didn’t turn out so well for all concerned but at the time i really thought we had purchased a cracking player.

Andreas Isaksson. Looked a really good keeper. I think a few other clubs were looking at him and I thought it was a real coup when we landed him. Injuries and Stuart Pearce not really fancying him ended his city career. A shame as he had everything to be a class keeper at city.

Nery Castillo. I was at his debut I think it was West Ham away. As good as it got. Around that time I really thought Svennis was putting together a really good squad but ultimately in a few weeks it all started to unravel.

Honourable mentions to.
Bianchi.
mcmanaman
Samaras
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Castillo and Bojinov. I remember watching Castillo against Brazil and he looked amazing, we were in for him at that point but iirc he ended up in Ukraine or somewhere instead before coming to us.

Bojinov i had been a big fan of since his days at Lecce, always looked quality and seemed like he was perfectly suited for PL. Ultimately he was never able to get fit though.

I'll add in Jo, only because we spent shit loads on him and he looked quality on YouTube :D
 
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