Underwhelmed when they signed but turned out to be pretty good

[uncle fester]

Obviously its all relative and some of these guys would not get anywhere near the team today

but step forward Sir Shaun Goater - remember being decidedly unimpressed that a guy trolling around with Rotherham would be able to do it at City - took a while to settle but once he was up and running he became a real goal machine

 

[Whitefield Blue]

Zinchenko

 

[dublinblue12]

Zabaleta

 

[Thaksinssoldier]

Kante

 

[Gingers Dad]

Mahrez

 

[chaddblue]

Zabaleta

Yep. He was a red card waiting to happen in his early days

Cancelo wasn’t great when he first joined either

 

[Barcon]

Bony. He turned out to be far better than I expected.

 

[whipper]

Isco

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Craig Bellamy

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

Bellamy's a decent shout.

David James, I didn't expect much for what I considered to being a middling career keeper at the time, he was decent.

Mpenza was surprisingly resourceful given the shit he played with.

I'd say a lot of our recent signings can fall into that category somewhat, because we haven't made the big name signings compared to our rivals. The likes of Dias when we were hyped about Koulibaly all summer, Plodri after the Jorginho debacle, FFS was hardly Messi, Cancelo seemed a bit of an unknown given he was moving about a lot, they've all stepped up beyond what I think most thought they were capable of.