PerfumePonce Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 Conor Clifford? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdb Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 Are you mental? He was a very good loan signing and most of us were hoping he would get a permanent deal. I did not rate him at all. His win ratio for us must have been awful and it's no surprise to me that before and after his stint here we've looked brilliant, where as we lost most games with him in. Weak and overrated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty98 Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 Would people still be saying Kermorgant was a bad signing if he didn't miss the penalty? Most our views of him are distorted by that one incident. Still a bad signing in my opinion regardless of the penalty, made 20 appearances and only scored 1 goal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KFS Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 No bad goalkeepers, but you could almost name a full squad... Nielson Bruce McGivern Kennedy Lingard Adjarevic Adams Kane Futacs Couldn't think of a second centre mid. That's being very harsh though, especially on Adams and Kennedy Weird how a lot of those players still play at our level or higher though Throw Kermo in there who has done well at this level. Just highlights the strength we have in the scouting system when he's been in charge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MattP Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 Omar Bogle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unabomber Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 James Pearson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corky Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 McGivern Kane Lingard Ajdarevic Kermorgant Bakayogo Whitbread All haven't worked out for one reason or another. We haven't persisted with them though and moved relatively quickly to improve on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Walsh5 Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 People mentioning the likes of Connor Clifford and Aman Verma. They were hardly bad signings, we wouldn't have paid a transfer fee for either of them, would have been on very cheap wages. It's one of then where if it works great if it doesn't you've not lost anything. A bad signing is someone like Matt Mills, £5 million transfer fee and then massive wages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col city fan Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 Bakayogo.. why Nige? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCCFox96 Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 I'd say Ben Marshall was one of the worst. Offered precious little when going forward bar the occasional wonder strike. He couldn't beat his man with pace or skill. His attitude was just awful and he was always surly and miserable. I remember at the open training session last season back he was moody as hell. Bad one for the dressing room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col city fan Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 I'd say Ben Marshall was one of the worst. Offered precious little when going forward bar the occasional wonder strike. He couldn't beat his man with pace or skill. His attitude was just awful and he was always surly and miserable. I remember at the open training session last season back he was moody as hell. Bad one for the dressing room. Whats he up to now at Blackburn? I remember a thread on here, comparing him (some favourably) to Tom Ince.. Hmmmmm.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babylon Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 Whats he up to now at Blackburn? I remember a thread on here, comparing him (some favourably) to Tom Ince.. Hmmmmm.... Said it from the start with him that his spectacular goals masked poor all round play. Alarms bells started ringing the second he arrived and the slapper stripper on twitter was outing him as a cheat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanguedocFox Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 As noted, Pearson has made as many iffy signings as other managers we have had. The difference is that he has made some spectacularly brilliant ones. Morgan, Wasilewski, De Laet, Drinkwater, James, Vardy, Knockaert, Mahrez: No manager in the past 15 years has made so many good signings for so little money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col city fan Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 As noted, Pearson has made as many iffy signings as other managers we have had. The difference is that he has made some spectacularly brilliant ones. Morgan, Wasilewski, De Laet, Drinkwater, James, Vardy, Knockaert, Mahrez: No manager in the past 15 years has made so many good signings for so little money. Spot on..... Even the best managers sign some duffers. Its the great ones that we should focus on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voll Blau Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 I think what makes a really bad signing is paying way too much, and/or persisting in playing him when there are better options on the bench. None of those above were big money signings, I doubt any were over 500k (except Marshall, and he wasn't a bad signing, just not a great one), and none of them were really anything other than squad players or back-up. They were mainly young with promise that never really materialised. The only one I would say was bad was signing Kane on loan and then playing him ahead of Vardy and Waghorn. Bang on. Was discussing this very subject yesterday. Pearson's not the type to stubbornly persist with people he's signed to prove a point. We hit way more than we miss with new players these days, which is something we haven't really done since the Saint Martin years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sampson Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 To be fair, most of Pearson's bad signings have either been on free or on loan. One thing he does know is the value of a player and when he spends a decent amount on a player he very rarely gets it wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAprice_ Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 When commenting on players like Ben Marshall it's easy to say now that he was a bad signing. At the time he did great things for the club. We signed better players. It doesn't mean he was a bad signing. Surplus to requirements. Club and player go separate ways. Same can be said for Gallagher. We don't need to call someone a 'bad signing' because he's not as good as what we've currently got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan LCFC Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 I did not rate him at all. His win ratio for us must have been awful and it's no surprise to me that before and after his stint here we've looked brilliant, where as we lost most games with him in. Weak and overrated. Also ripped to shreds when Derby came here. He wasn't a calamity but he wasn't that good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djedmundo Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 Leon Crnic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tielemans63 Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 Ben Marshall could have been a very good signing, plenty of talent but from what I've heard he had a lot of personal problems and needed to be back up north. To be fair to NP, these types of issues are difficult to foresee. Mate of mine who supports Wednesday said he thought BM would be a top prem player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPH Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 He tried to sign my crisp packet once...well that really was a bad signing... He tried to sign my hobnobs once! I thought to myself' that's taking the biscuit! ' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unabomber Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 Leon Crnic? He was a made up joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Walsh5 Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 Leon Crnic? Not a Pearson signing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxesAreBlue Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 Ryan McGivern. He was so shit he made me angry. I honestly think I could have done a better job that him as he wasn't a footballer. He was a magician who could fool managers into playing him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosbehFox Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 To be fair Harry Kane's doing alright at the moment, starting for Spurs are has scored in his last couple of games. Similar to Lingard, never given in a chance in his true position therefore deemed rubbish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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