Worst signing by each manager

[chaddblue]

Bony was a bag of shite. Was that Pellegrini?

 

[RayCTID]

Bony was a bag of shite. Was that Pellegrini?

Yep although we still had Dzeko and it was more of stop gap and cover rather than an improvement. We probably had better targets lined up that summer.

 

[yatesy94.]

In my lifetime:

Royle - Not sure, was only 5/6 years old. Maybe Gareth Taylor? Signed for a fair bit of cash and spent most of his time with us out on loan or in the reserves?

Keegan - Matias Vuoso, saw him play in the reserves at Hyde United a week or so after he'd signed and he looked good, but never saw him play for the first team. We really couldn't afford to waste the money in those days but that never seemed to matter to Keegan.

Pearce - Bernardo Corradi, at least Samaras scored a handful of goals. Corradi had those cool celebration routines but they were often performed for other players who weren't strikers and still managed to score more goals than him.

Sven - Rolando Bianchi, was alright for the first half of that season but dropped off quickly and was gone inside a year. Not sure why he suddenly decided to bugger off. Would have said Bojinov but that was nobody's fault really - a very talented player who couldn't stay fit.

Hughes - Tal Ben Haim, still get angry when I think about how bad he was. At least Jo scored the odd goal. All I remember about Ben Haim was him being completely wank from start to finish. One of the first City players I remember genuinely hating, dreaded every game he started.

Mancini - Scott Sinclair, we didn't want to sign him, he didn't want to come, and in the end he represented everything that went wrong with that 12/13 season. We needed a quick replacement for Johnson so we bought hastily and wasted £7m on him. At least Rodwell had two good games.

Pellegrini - Wilfried Bony, didn't have the worst scoring record but just never looked fit or even aware of his surroundings most of the time. Felt sorry for him sometimes because people really laid into him mercilessly but looking back I can't believe we held onto him for 18 months.

Guardiola - Nolito, started off well enough but soon lost interest in playing here and looked like he was deliberately trying to get himself in Pep's bad books by acting like a dickhead. Got himself in trouble for two headbutts in two games, complained about the weather, buggered off again.

Agree with all of that except swap Mangala for Bony he's the worst of the lot for me

 

[radcliffe1309]

Malcolm Allison Stuart Lee

 

[lancs blue]

didn’t ron saunders sign dennis tueart

He also signed Micky Horswill, a massive aberration unless he had a thing for gingers. ;-)

 

[Gray]

I take issue with the OP on Jesus Navas.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Pep - Kevin De Bruyne, absolute joke

 

[TravisBickle]

Pep - Kevin De Bruyne, absolute joke

£55m is a joke
He couldn’t cut it at Chelsea
Honestly Jeff, I thought it was lira!

 

[RiversideBlue]

The name I post under is an anagram of one of Ball's worst signings.

Agreed. MF was awful.

 

[RiversideBlue]

How is Mendy coming up in this thread?! WHen the guy has played an been fully fit, he's been quality. May have had a few shaky moments but nothing that's lost us several games... Bravo is by far the worst!

Mendy's definitely not in this list for football reasons but in terms of what he's accused of doing (if found guilty) he's the worst signing of the lot.