Excited when they signed but turned out to be rubbish

[ChicagoBlue]

Glauber Berti

 

[TonyM]

Robinho

I wasn't disappointed with him at all. I thought he did exactly what he was good at. Him and Ireland were a joy to watch.

 

[Keepingthefaithsince1976]

Carl Griffiths, Martin Phillips.

 

[HelloCity]

Fowler

Not excited but I thought Bridge would be a really good signing.

 

[jjctid]

Ben Haim.

Agree about Ben Haim. Saw him in a pre-season game ( can't remember the opponents - feyenoord /psv maybe ) He was fantastic! I thought to myself we have just signed a rock. It just goes to show never judge a player on 1 pre-season game.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

RSC.

 

[burning blue soul]

Rodwell. Shame about the injuries.

 

[Kippax BB Lower]

Craig Russell

 

[red 2 hats]

I wasn't disappointed with him at all. I thought he did exactly what he was good at. Him and Ireland were a joy to watch.

He raised our profile when he signed, our marquee signing massively under achieved, one or two decent moments but that was it.

 

[Corky]

Keegan was great at talking up a new signing. I remember him talking about Christian Negouai like he was some sort of nailed on super star.

He got sent of on his only start i think and despite being with us for 4 years he just disappeared of the face of the earth. His only contribution is that it turns out at some point he dodged a drugs test and got away with it and it was used by Rio as precedent in his case.

The argument was not that pesuasive.

Maurice Watkins at his finest.

 

[blue aura]

Nery Castillo

 

[TonyM]

Javi Garcia v Fernando. Battle Royal of Slowwwwwww.

 

[TravisBickle]

Nery Castillo.

The drop off was crazy after watching the YouTube vids of him.

 

[Bozzie]

Wayne Bridge was a huge disappointment. Second best left back in the country behind Ashley Cole at the time and I thought he'd be a terrific signing for us .... but he wasn't and he took us for 80k a week for the privilege!

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Javi Garcia v Fernando. Battle Royal of Slowwwwwww.

Both superb players, but couldn't defend for 2 players to allow Yaya to lollop about.

 

[half & half derby scarf]

Raise you Kavelashvili

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

The drop off was crazy after watching the YouTube vids of him.

Yeah, he even paid part of the fee to get himself here. I was thinking we’ve got a gem here who’s motivated too.

Played about half an hour and buggered off!

 

[TonyM]

He raised our profile when he signed, our marquee signing massively under achieved, one or two decent moments but that was it.

I didn't expected him to be good enough to lift a whole team. What he did was enough for me to be more than happy with hum.

 

[TonyM]

Both superb players, but couldn't defend for 2 players to allow Yaya to lollop about.

"Superb" might be pushing it a bit. But I agree both had a few short purple patches.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

"Superb" might be pushing it a bit. But I agree both had a few short purple patches.

Both had really good careers after us too.