Most disappointing signing ever, when you expected so much more?

[Nalis]

7 hours ago, Langston said:

Really? A free? 

Vassell was fine for us.

Disappointing in terms of my  own expectations of an ex England forward in the championship, yes, albeit my expectations for him were quite high rightly or wrongly.

 

He only scored about 6 goals for us if I recall.

[filthyfox]

Mancini

[PaulW]

7 hours ago, Oxfordfox83 said:

I mean, I suppose technically it’s a matter of opinion, but you’re definitely wrong. The money is a really misleading measure and you need to overlook that. He was signed to be a goalscoring 10, an upgrade on Okazaki’s non-scoring 10.

 

Iheanacho was signed to be a second striker, in a squad that included Mahrez and Vardy. He wasn’t signed to be our best player. 

 

The mistake was not signing another striker in January. We knew he was responding badly to pressure-now he only comes on when we’re desperate for a goal. Never gonna happen. 

"He wasn’t signed to be our best player."    Maybe not, but he was signed to be our best player in the position we signed him for.

[ozleicester]

Sven

[Guest Cujek]

Akinbiyi end of

[Guest Cujek]

1 hour ago, filthyfox said:

Mancini

He was quality

[StriderHiryu]

Adrien Silva has been a bigger disappointment that Nacho who has had some good games for us. 

 

Silva we all thought was going to be the player Tielemans is, but he struggled with the pace of the game big time. 

 

That said both players should be moved on for their own good. 

[J.Lisemore]

Kaebi - the YouTube vid of him tackling Figo? Thought we’d signed and a gem, and can only remember him playing one game and Ipswich away  

[murphy]

11 hours ago, Col city fan said:

Nacho and Slimani....

Nearly 55 million combined

Let me say that again... 

Nearly 55 million combined

The mind boggles, it really does

 

10 hours ago, fazzyfox said:

Isn't that ten Kante's! What an equation that is!

Or 55 x Vardy

 

Or 137.5 x  Mahrez

 

These transfers are easily the worst because they are so damaging to the club.

 

Iheanacho wins it for me.  £25m plus millions in wages and every time I see him he makes me angry with that combination of being absolutely dreadful with that laissez-faire attitude.  This transfer absolutely stiffed the club as we can't realistically get anyone in until we get rid of him and Slim, off the wage bill and I can't see Top writing off the amount of money we'd have to discount them to, to make them saleable.

 

Nacho belongs in the Championship I'm afraid and that is where he's headed.

 

 

[Nick]

Beckford

Adi Akyinbadbuyee

Ghezzal

Dennis Wise

Nacho

Slimani

Mills

Nils Eric Johansson

Bruma

 

 

Disappointment but also expected so much more for different reasons, sometimes conduct, some performance and some just dismay at the signing itself!

[Blue ROI]

Has to be Nachoman. 4 goals in 51 appearances and 2 of them when the season was as good as over. 

 

Slimani at least got more goals with far less games. Kramaric whilst disapointing was nowhere near as expensive and wasn't around as long.

 

For the hype and cost Nacho has to be the biggest disappointment of them all.

[Simoken]

To determine whos the worst singing you got to consider the price as-well as just performance and i have to say..... Slimani/Nacho (55m) has to be the worst ever signings.. more than akinbiyi. 55m!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the****

Edited 7 May 2019 by Simoken

[goose2010]

Momo Sylla - looked a world beater in a friendly in pre-season then did literally nothing else! 34 games no goals and I think maybe 2 assets?!

 

Him on one wing Josh Low on the other  

 

 

[ian_marshall]

Darren Eadie springs to mind. Absolutely loved him at Norwich and was sure we'd signed one of top PL player's at the time only for him sign to for us, get injured, then retire. Was really saddened and disappointed in equal measures. 

[Langston]

13 hours ago, Nalis said:

Disappointing in terms of my  own expectations of an ex England forward in the championship, yes, albeit my expectations for him were quite high rightly or wrongly.

 

He only scored about 6 goals for us if I recall.

 

He played on the wing a fair bit and had spent time at some second rate Turkish club about five / six months prior to joining us.

He was alright, really.

[Wymsey]

Tunchev and Stephen Clemence; although their unsuccessful stints at the ckub werent exactly their fault (long-term injuries).

 

Martin Keown is another that springs to mind, although that was perhaps a 'panic buy' signing.

Edited 7 May 2019 by Wymeswold fox

[TrentFox]

Phil Gee. The end. 

[HighPeakFox]

Just now, TrentFox said:

Phil Gee. The end. 

I think this might get filed under 'unpopular opinions you hold'.

 

Either that or you're mildly trolling...

[Langston]

22 minutes ago, Wymeswold fox said:

Tunchev and Stephen Clemence; although their unsuccessful stints at the ckub werent exactly their fault (long-term injuries).

 

Martin Keown is another that springs to mind, although that was perhaps a 'panic buy' signing.

 

Tunchev was great for us and was plucked from Bulgarian obscurity, were your expectations really as high as the standard he managed to deliver when with us?

[Nalis]

40 minutes ago, Langston said:

 

He played on the wing a fair bit and had spent time at some second rate Turkish club about five / six months prior to joining us.

He was alright, really.

Fair enough, maybe my expectations were a bit unrealistic at the time to be fair.

[worthosoriginals]

22 hours ago, That_Dude said:

Yay, another bashing thread.

yeh, it's as if there's not enough threads of hate for our players.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Toss up between Silva and Nacho for me, can't make my mind up. 

[PaulW]

12 hours ago, worthosoriginals said:

yeh, it's as if there's not enough threads of hate for our players.

Criticism is not hate!  

[Finnegan]

On 06/05/2019 at 22:09, AKCJ said:

Iheanacho is still young and has never had a manager give him time and faith.

 

The man who bought him was sacked almost instantly and Puel isn't exactly a striker's dream manager.

 

Give him time under Brendan but I feel as though next season will be his and Gray's last chance to show their potential.

 

I've been saying this all season and I really do believe it. It's probably the most unpopular football opinion you can hold on here but I really don't think he's anywhere near as shit as his "highlight" reel of shockers shows. 

 

I think it's possible he won't ever have the right personality, I do worry that he never quite seems to have the stubborn self belief and absolute fire to fight and prove himself. He looks like he's given up, either through destroyed confidence or a complete lack of willingness to graft. 

 

But its important people remember that Vardy had to be convinced to not jack it in. The same people booing Nacho now are probably the same people that nearly hounded Vardy out the club. 

 

He clearly is technically proficient. He's not Riyad but he's also not appalling. You only have to look at his footage from Man City or his early games here to see all sorts of bright signs. Composed, accurate, early finishing. Great footwork to beat people, clever through passes, lob passes and flicks. There was a moment early this season I think where he skipped through two defenders passing the ball between his feet with a shimmy that was one of the best moves I've seen this year. 

 

But people either forget it or don't want to see it, they just remember his increasingly growing list of absolute point blank howlers like Monday's miss. I do get that, they are awful and embarrassing. 

 

But I kinda get it. I'm obviously not a top level pro sportsman but I do have a wildly inconsistent brain. I'm prone to enormous swings in confidence and anxiety that turn my ability to do everything from football to maths to basic speech from the sublime to the borderline disabled from day to day. 

 

The brain is hugely complex and a drop in confidence, especially a significant plummet, can turn your legs in to absolute jelly or lead, your brain in to complete foggy mush. Maybe Nacho lacks the mental fortitude to actually fight those things and maybe he'll never succeed under the pressure of the Prem. 

 

But equally, maybe he's a very, very young player - someone we forget just how young he is - who's gone from the best club in the country to a struggling team with an unsuitable manager to a fanbase that's turned hideously, quite frankly disgustingly on him as a scapegoat and it's absolutely struck him. 

 

I'm desperately keen to see what Rodgers can do with a full summer to work with him, I've never wanted us to turn around the fortunes of a player so much. Make no mistake, he MUST be willing to work his arse off to put a shift in but I do believe there's a player there. 

 

Maybe not a 25m, 20 goal a season one but certainly one good enough for this division when you consider the Shane Longs, Chris Woods, Ashley Barnes etc. I mean if Ashley Barnes can score double figures for Burnley, Nacho could do it with Harvey, Madders and Youri teeing him up. 

[Bossman Blessed It]

31 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

Maybe not a 25m, 20 goal a season one but certainly one good enough for this division when you consider the Shane Longs, Chris Woods, Ashley Barnes etc. I mean if Ashley Barnes can score double figures for Burnley, Nacho could do it with Harvey, Madders and Youri teeing him up. 

 

Yeah I definitely agree. He needs a pre-season with Brendan and a genuine vote of confidence from the manager.