Players we expected to be terrible, that were actually decent

[martyn]

Billy McKinlay

Rob Ullathorne

Gerry Taggart

 

Edited 30 August 2020 by martyn

[don_danbury]

matt mills

[Aus Fox]

2 minutes ago, don_danbury said:

matt mills

Wrong way around 

[shailen]

35 minutes ago, Corky said:

Jonny Evans looked like he was running through treacle on his debut. Wondered why teams like Arsenal were bidding £20 million for him.

0-0 draw vs Wolves from memory. He looked terrible in that game. 

[ALC Fox]

Lloyd Dyer. Signed because MK Dons wouldn't give him more than a 2-year deal after he helped them win the League Two title. Ended up helping fire us to two promotions (and league titles).

[Electric Yetis]

Gerry Taggart. Free transfer from Bolton. Thought he was a plodder.

Came in and started terribly and used to get a few boos from the crowd but turned it around fantastically.

[Strokes]

12 minutes ago, Aus Fox said:

Wrong way around 

Mills Matt?

[Ric Flair]

1 hour ago, Lambert09 said:

We’ve all been struggling to deal with swapping champions league football for EL. Now the rumours have dropped from Tagliafico to Targett. 

 

It got me thinking about past players who we’ve all expected to be trash, but actually ended up being pretty good. 

 

Let’s bring some optimisin back with some stories of previous ‘targett’s’ that turned out to be Taggart’s. 

 

Ill start with an obvious one, Albrighton. An uninspiring free agent. 

 

 

Danny Simpson 

[FoyleFox]

Most of the title winning team to be fair. 

[MPH]

35 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

Kasper strangely. Before signing him, my main knowledge of him was being a young keeper sold by Man City and losing his temper frequently. I remember watching us play Leeds and him coming racing out and should've been sent off 

 

 

He didn’t come with glowing references from Leeds fans. they were a bit Meh about him being sold... Told us he wasn’t very good at coming for crosses.

[tom27111]

David Nugent.

 

To say I was underwhelmed is an understatement. 

 

Turned out to be one of my favourite ever players and a bloody nice bloke.

Edited 30 August 2020 by tom27111

[MPH]

Spencer Prior, Gary Coatsworth.. Tony James. Steve Corica...

[Tielemans63]

Ian Marshall for £1 million 

 

I thought he was a fat waste of space before we signed him. Turns out he was fat but also a really handy player who did a good job for us.

[VLC86]

Lincoln away, Fuchs first start I might have said that Konchesky was better...

[FoyleFox]

14 minutes ago, MPH said:

 

 

He didn’t come with glowing references from Leeds fans. they were a bit Meh about him being sold... Told us he wasn’t very good at coming for crosses.

That's an understatement and a half 

[Collymore]

Bruno Berner. 

 

Remember him coming as a bit of a reject from Blackburn but slowly became a brilliant player for the club able to play midfield or LB. 

 

Model pro and great attitude too.

[Collymore]

20 minutes ago, tom27111 said:

David Nugent.

 

To say I was underwhelmed is an understatement. 

 

Turned out to be one of my favourite ever players and a bloody nice bloke.

Underwhelmed with Nugent? He was like one of the most sort after players at one time when he was at Preston. Pretty sure he was a bit of a capture??

[HankMarvin]

this one next pls

 

Players we expected to be good that were actually terrible

 

 

 

[Snik-Snok]

Another nomination for Gerry Taggart from me. Thought he was a complete donkey when he joined. Didn't have a great start but turned out to be a great signing.

[tom27111]

2 minutes ago, Collymore said:

Underwhelmed with Nugent? He was like one of the most sort after players at one time when he was at Preston. Pretty sure he was a bit of a capture??

 

He completely flopped at Portsmouth and was loaned out to Burnley, where he didn't exactly set the world on fire.

 

Happily proven wrong though.

[FoyleFox]

Just now, Collymore said:

Underwhelmed with Nugent? He was like one of the most sort after players at one time when he was at Preston. Pretty sure he was a bit of a capture??

Vardy was far more underwhelming. We'd spent a season crying out for a great striker, chasing Billy Sharp and Maynard and we signed Vardy. Who certainly fulfills the thread title of actually being decent. And then some. 

[Collymore]

3 minutes ago, tom27111 said:

 

He completely flopped at Portsmouth and was loaned out to Burnley, where he didn't exactly set the world on fire.

 

Happily proven wrong though.

Totally forgot that ****show at Pompey

Edited 30 August 2020 by Collymore

[Collymore]

5 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

this one next pls

 

Players we expected to be good that were actually terrible

 

 

 

And then... 

 

Players we expected to be terrible that were actually good, but then went terrible. #zolt

[lgfualol]

Danny Simpson. Thought we were absolutely robbed spending 2m on him. 

[foxes_rule1978]

Vardy