The 'Greek Tragedy' retires.

It was a myth that he did well in Scotland , the vast majority of Celtic fans considered him to be very ordinary
 
journolud said:
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Feel free to check his record, for his sake I'm not posting it here but it is extremely poor, even in Scotland it isn't as great as you might think. Christ I could say Corradi was shit on here and someone would jump to his defence.
 
lancs blue said:
And this makes a difference? As we saw at Anfield, they still have to be put away.
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He scored some super goals, including the last two home goals against Everton. I read that as them goals being super, my mistake if not.
 
Always had a soft spot for Samaras. Showed glimpses of brilliance every now and then, could have done a lot better.
 
bluetonium said:
Yet a near God in Scotland...

Very much wanted for him to be a great player for us, was a big signing for us at the time and he did try, mostly. I remember talking to a Dutch lad at work when we signed him and he told me we got the wrong one, he only looked good because he had a teammate who set him up constantly, can't remember for the life of me who that was though.

Good luck to him in whatever he does next.
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Klaas-Jan Huntelaar? - scored a shed load for Ajax which earned him a brief spell at Real Madrid.

42 goals in 76 appearances for the Netherlands as well - your Dutch mate was right!
 
Tom_mcfc said:
Feel free to check his record, for his sake I'm not posting it here but it is extremely poor, even in Scotland it isn't as great as you might think. Christ I could say Corradi was shit on here and someone would jump to his defence.
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Corradi was shit but Sampras had to put up with being rotated with him before rotation was invented and in a shit team that Sergio would have struggled in.

No need to check his record I saw him play. Nobody is claiming he was a world beater but he had the potential to be much better than he eventually was. City of that era and the spl full stop were hardly likely to bring the best out of him.

There do seem to be few players who divide opinion like Samaras did or does
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
I remember fans pinning all hopes on him when we were shite. I remember him getting injured 2 days before our FA cup Quarter final with West Ham and fans were gutted and going mad at Pearce for playing him. Like he would have made any difference!
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The season we played the quarter final midweek, to quote from the BBC:

“A depleted City, without the likes of Georgios Samaras, Trevor Sinclair, Claudio Reyna, Andy Cole and Antoine Sibierski”

Take note younger Blues, these were the players we hung our hats on, apart from Tricky Trev (who wasn’t really that tricky) and Cole who was all but finished we were truly desperate!
 
jamesha said:
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar? - scored a shed load for Ajax which earned him a brief spell at Real Madrid.

42 goals in 76 appearances for the Netherlands as well - your Dutch mate was right!
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I was similarly working with a dutch lad at the time, a HeernVeen fan as well, he actually rated Samaras' potential but said Huntelaar was the real deal, I think we were linked with him later down the line.

As to Samaras, I'm sure that injury early on had a big effect, bobbins after that
 
Even I could have made it in comparison.

Some people are just born lucky.

Tall, right place, right time.

That aside.

Hope our Greek God has a long and happy life outside of football.
 
quiet_riot said:
Played out of position by a wank manager. When played up top, he scored some super goals, including our last 2 home goals of 2007, came on and won us the game.

Still plenty of fans blast him, making them bigger blues.
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they had to give someone some stick it in there DNA
 
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