Rubbish players that you loved?

[warpig]

Michel Vonk.

 

[kingn6]

Jason van blerk

Other clubs

Marco Boogers

 

[youngbob]

Vassell. Sun Jihai. Edgehill.

 

[PitchInvader BHA away1983]

He managed Rosenborg for a number of years

He’s not bad at the 1,500 metres, either??!!

So I have been told ?? :0)

 

[dickie davies]

Sergio Aguero.

He was my first thought
So many rave about him, but if he was so good, why was he never in the PL team of season
The people voting knew their stuff, so it's not like there was any bias

 

[Twisted-wheel]

Martin ‘Buster’ Phillips

 

[The Northern Baptist]

Carl Griffths

 

[reddishblue]

Maurizio Gaudino - I called him Morris after the famous car manufacturer :)​

 

[maccieblue]

Kenny Clements

Another one that became a scapegoat ,Kenny wasn't that bad

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Wilfred Bony. Thought he was a brilliant signing when we brought him in.

We all make mistakes.

 

[SuttonColdfieldBlue]

It’s got to be Shaun Goater… club legend, loved and adored by the fans, loved/loves the club, banged in the goals…. The only question is, watching him play, how exactly DID he bang in the goals?!

Arms and legs all over the show, half the time goals going in off body parts that nobody else would ever score off - it would not be unfair to describe some of his all-round play as “shit”, particularly by the standards to which we are now accustomed. But he bled blue blood for the cause and the goal stats speak for themselves. An absolute hero for the club. Loved him.

 

[Lord Blue]

Gerry Gow.

 

[Edghill OG]

Lots of players from the lower reaches that were never Premier League class. Wouldn't necessarily refer to them as 'shit'. Some like Dickov, Goater, Andy Morrison etc have cult like status despite not being elite footballers.

Quite liked Darren Huckerby when I was younger as he was fucking rapid. Shame there's a ball involved in football though.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Kiki Musampa.

Probably because of his brother Chris.

 

[LTW]

Gareth Barry.

Whenever I watch games from his era back, he’s now where near as good as I thought he was at the time, especially in Europe.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Andy Dibble.

There, I've said it.

 

[pace89]

Very few shit players listed here.

Increasingly, people refer to any time before 2010 as ‘when we were shit’ but it’s bollocks. There were some poor sides and dark days but we also had some great teams and excellent players as well.

It’s a weird re-writing of history amongst our own supporters and just reinforces the media narrative that City weren’t anything before 2008.

 

[BlumerMooner]

Honey Monster

 

[Abattoir Blue]

Very few shit players listed here.

Increasingly, people refer to any time before 2010 as ‘when we were shit’ but it’s bollocks. There were some poor sides and dark days but we also had some great teams and excellent players as well.

It’s a weird re-writing of history amongst our own supporters and just reinforces the media narrative that City weren’t anything before 2008.

Yep. By this binary logic of either exceptional or shit, every player between 1978-2010 was shit. And most since then too.

 

[chaddblue]

Nigel Gleghorn