Excited when they signed but turned out to be rubbish

Richard Wright……couldn’t be arsed shifting his arse off the bench.
 
Keeper! said:
Paul Futcher, Mich Channon and Kevin Reeves, exciting signings back in the day but all 3 major disappointment's.
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Was going to stick down Futcher myself, agree with Channon he was OK for us but never as exciting as with Southampton.
For some reason I was never particularly excited about Reeves in the first place.

I think Malcolm Allison and Keegan were the worst managers we had for paying decent money for underwhelming talent.
 
hilts said:
Mendy must be top of anyones list. Been crying out for a world class left back for years. Came from that very good Monaco team. For all the world he looked like a marauding gem of a player and a top bloke with an infectious sense of humour.

Talk about failing in every way possible
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Who?
 
I can't remember if it were Alan Ball but whoever it was, swapping Paul Walsh for Gerry Creaney...........Whatever possessed the man? We were heading for skid row for sure anyway but one bad signing after another compounded the issues. Christian Ngouai, Sam Harris, Rolando Bianchi, Lee Bradbury, Robert Taylor, Terry Cooke, Val Boj the list is endless.
 
Greenjob said:
I can't remember if it were Alan Ball but whoever it was, swapping Paul Walsh for Gerry Creaney...........Whatever possessed the man? We were heading for skid row for sure anyway but one bad signing after another compounded the issues. Christian Ngouai, Sam Harris, Rolando Bianchi, Lee Bradbury, Robert Taylor, Terry Cooke, Val Boj the list is endless.
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Similar with Colin Hendrys replacement, was it Alan Kernaghan?
 
jaseisblue said:
Kakabar Tshdadze sp, didnt kinkladze give him a glowing endorsement, claiming he is better than me!
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He was a decent centre back who did his ACL early on, Royle was raving about him but he never came back from the injury for us. Sheila the same.
 
Cityfan said:
Was going to stick down Futcher myself, agree with Channon he was OK for us but never as exciting as with Southampton.
For some reason I was never particularly excited about Reeves in the first place.

I think Malcolm Allison and Keegan were the worst managers we had for paying decent money for underwhelming talent.
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I spoke about Channon above so won't repeat myself but Futcher is a good call. We paid a club-record fee for him to replace Mike Doyle and he was touted as an England international in the making. He was good on the ball so you could see why he might have looked impressive in the old Division Two but he was also slow, not that strong in the air, didn't read the game especially well and was a bit error-prone. All in all, very underwhelming.

I don't remember having seen Reeves play when we bought him, but he'd just been capped by England and was being touted in the press as Kevin Keegan's long-term successor in the national side. That made me, as a kid, excited by his signing but he also didn't live up to the billing. On the whole he was decent enough, but he certainly wasn't anything really special by the top-flight standards of the time.
 
Jô and Nery Castillo were two I got excited about shows your FIFA isn't always the best barometer for talent! Would say Bojinov too however if not for bad injuries he would've been a decent player.
 
I was going to say Grealish, but I wasn't even excited when they bought him.
 
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