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Adebayor wasn't. Scored plenty of goals when he played and of course that celebration.
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Hyped transfers who turned out to be garbage
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Millwallawayveteran1988
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He was ok for one season.
Adebayor wasn't. Scored plenty of goals when he played and of course that celebration.
He was ok for one season.
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Santa Cruz seemed like a Hughes obsession. I must admit, that dragged on a bit (like Sterling) but I was quite excited when we got him - it was downhill thereafter. I'd even suggest we got more out of Jo than Santa Cruz, and that's saying something.
We've had our fair share of shocking buys, it's par for the course, and in the early days of the Sheik, I suppose it was to be expected. As long as we manage to find the diamonds too, that's ok by me.
We've had our fair share of shocking buys, it's par for the course, and in the early days of the Sheik, I suppose it was to be expected. As long as we manage to find the diamonds too, that's ok by me.
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He was ok for one season.
He only got to play regularly for one season. Then scored a hat trick against poznan in pretty much his only 90m of the next before being loaned to Madrid. He wasn't too bad, we just wasted no time moving on to Mario and Dzeko. Doesn't deserve to be lumped in with RSC imo.
Channon.Very big money signing & an England regular but useless for us.
Glad someone else mentioned Channon, as he was one I thought of. Wouldn't quite say he was useless - he scored 24 goals in 72 league games, which isn't a disastrous haul by any means, and he had some good games. But he was a big, big disappointment considering that he cost a record fee and was meant to be the final piece in the jigsaw, the signing who'd turn us from runners-up into champions.
Arguably we made an even worse signing the next summer, as well, when we broke the club record again to sign Paul Futcher from Luton. He in effect replaced Mike Doyle as Dave Watson's partner and was lauded by Book as a future England international. However, he managed only 37 games and was sold at a big loss to Oldham.
Slightly before my time as I started attending MR a month after he left the club and maybe a bit controversial, but how about Rodney Marsh? Playing devil's advocate to some extent. But while he was a big crowd favourite, we were top of the league when he signed, missed the title after he came into the team and didn't challenge for it again until the season after he left, and we won a Cup competition only after he was shown the door, too. He was meant to be a crowd puller, but gates were far higher in the season towards the end of which he signed and in the season after he left than they were during his time at the club.
A few people have mentioned Alan Kernaghan, and that's a decent call, too. We paid GBP 1.6 million at a time when the transfer record was under GBP 4 million, so it was a fair wedge for those days, and he had a decent reputation. He was useless.
Can't see how anyone can claim Trevor Francis falls into this category. He was an absolute thoroughbred, and his sale at a loss after only one season says more about the incompetence in the City boardroom than anything else.
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Can't see how anyone can claim Trevor Francis falls into this category. He was an absolute thoroughbred, and his sale at a loss after only one season says more about the incompetence in the City boardroom than anything else.
Agree with this - his first match against Stoke away and scored twice with the City fans taking the piss out of Gary Birtles, who was a record signing for the rags, and couldn't hit a barn door. Great days away.
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Samaras. I had such high hopes for him.
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No ones mentioned Rick Holden, looked like Maradonna for Oldham and we swopped Steve Redmond and Neil Poynton for him. For a tricky winger he had the pace of a catapiller with all its legs removed and had the appearance of someone who'd been sleeping rough.
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Robinho. Good player, great very occasionally, but over-hyped as the next big Brazil star even before we bought him, and really pretty weak & did fuck all.
Jo. Not as good as Paul Dickov or the legendary Goat, yet somehow played for Brazil and cost us about £18 million.
Fernando. Less hyped, but really disappointing.
There's always the obvious ones like Bradbury, Creaney, etc, but (rightly) they weren't hyped, and we were pretty shite back then so we didn't really expect world beaters did we.
Jo. Not as good as Paul Dickov or the legendary Goat, yet somehow played for Brazil and cost us about £18 million.
Fernando. Less hyped, but really disappointing.
There's always the obvious ones like Bradbury, Creaney, etc, but (rightly) they weren't hyped, and we were pretty shite back then so we didn't really expect world beaters did we.
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Douglas Maicon wasn't really hyped but I'm amazed at how shit he was for us after being one of the best right backs in the world at Inter.
Bojinov was a disappointment.
Bianchi. Cost £8m under Sven and was a right moaning ****. Shame because the season before Vassel was out main striker ffs.
Bojinov was a disappointment.
Bianchi. Cost £8m under Sven and was a right moaning ****. Shame because the season before Vassel was out main striker ffs.