Unit Posted 28 May 2007 Posted 28 May 2007 I'm making myself a 'little project' on footballs worst players, i've come here for your help. First on my list is Akinbaye (sp) and De Vries. Can you list players who were introduced with huge expectations and turned out to be wank (not just at Leicester) and WHY they were shit? CHEERSSS
lildave3 Posted 28 May 2007 Posted 28 May 2007 I'm making myself a 'little project' on footballs worst players, i've come here for your help.First on my list is Akinbaye (sp) and De Vries. Can you list players who were introduced with huge expectations and turned out to be wank (not just at Leicester) and WHY they were shit? CHEERSSS Bogarde for Chelsea. Purely because he sat in the reserves for 3 years on 40k a week.
SystonFox Posted 28 May 2007 Posted 28 May 2007 boulahrouz for chelsea? kewell for liverpool ? (can do ok but really he has flopped) massimo taibi for man utd james beattie at everton just a few for thought?
SystonFox Posted 28 May 2007 Posted 28 May 2007 Massimo Tabi thieving git! agree about Veron too. £27million werent it chelski paid? or was that moan ure?
Simi Posted 28 May 2007 Posted 28 May 2007 thieving git!agree about Veron too. £27million werent it chelski paid? or was that moan ure? Man Utd.
JoeyB Posted 28 May 2007 Posted 28 May 2007 thieving git!agree about Veron too. £27million werent it chelski paid? or was that moan ure? Man utd, Chelsea paid 14 mill iirc
sdb Posted 28 May 2007 Posted 28 May 2007 sure newcastle signed some1 for about 7mill who played once or twice - marcelino? something like that. and that 4 foot something bloke sunderland bought around 2001 for a fair wack, played a half. the club who sold the lad lied about his details. sunderland = tres stupid there chris sutton for chelsea? george weah's 'brother' that souness signed at southampton? haha. akinbiyi must be up there.
SystonFox Posted 28 May 2007 Posted 28 May 2007 Surely Mark Yeates has to be one? scored on his full debut then went missing. i agree. joe hammill. patrick gerrbrand. junior lewis. jacob laursen. just some of the names i can recall of LCFC history.
lookwhaticando Posted 28 May 2007 Posted 28 May 2007 joe hammill.patrick gerrbrand. I disagree with these two. Hamill was shit, to be sure, but we were told he was seen by Levein as a squad player, one for the future. And Hearts fans warned us he was shit - so expectations were never that high. I wouldn't call Gerrbrand shit either... he looked safe until he got injured and never seemed to recover properly. I think he'd have done well for us last term, given the chance after a pre-season, so long as he stayed injury free. Alas, it wasn't to be.
Milky Posted 28 May 2007 Posted 28 May 2007 Maccarone. Cost 8 million ish. that's actually probably just a shocking signing. He has some ability.
Floating Fox Posted 28 May 2007 Posted 28 May 2007 Marlet for fulham :laugh: £11 Million. Sorry I always say it but thats the best transfer ever :laugh:
escape2victory Posted 29 May 2007 Posted 29 May 2007 Who was that geezer who came on as a sub for Southampton, then Souness, the manager at the time, realised he was shite and subbed him again after about 10 mins ?! Claimed to be George Weah's cousin or something !! Dia or something Thomas Brolin Marco Boogers
Finnegan Posted 29 May 2007 Posted 29 May 2007 I was venting my frustrations about this to Wils the other day. Think about it. By far and away the worst player in the history of football, purely for embarrassment's sakes - is good old Franny Jeffers. How much has been spent on the lad? How much is he paid a week? And to do what? Does he ever play football? Has anyone ever witnessed this rarest of miracles? The little scouse has the art of thieving to a 'T', he's even called a sportsman for it! Go and look at his record on Wikipedia if you've never really thought about it yourself before. He just hops about from club to club for fees of millions and then sort of vanishes into their stadium somewhere. Marvelous. His record appearances for any one club... is 49, and he managed that over a period of THREE years!! Averaging just sixteen games (and six goals) a season at Everton he then goes on to shatter this unbelievable record at the Gooners who pay a whopping eight million for him. Average games per season? Seven! Goals? 1.3! For the 03/04 season, a miracle! Francis Jeffers manages double figures in a league season, back on loan at Everton the lad bags a probably career best of EIGHTEEN games in the year! Shame the "natural finisher" manages to net fook all by way of goals! So what do Charlton do? Inspired by this incredible track record, the sign our Franny for another multi million fee - 2.6 million they pay! Astounding! Franny's return at the Valley? An average of ten games a season AND... three goals. Absolutely amazing. I'm pretty sure if I worked as little as he does I'd be out of a job quick smart, and I'm rather sure I don't sit around in the staff room waiting for something to do on twenty odd grand a week.
Koke Posted 29 May 2007 Posted 29 May 2007 Bogarde for Chelsea. Purely because he sat in the reserves for 3 years on 40k a week. Thats just legendary. It just makes me laugh every time I remember him.
Ultra Posted 29 May 2007 Posted 29 May 2007 sure newcastle signed some1 for about 7mill who played once or twice - marcelino? something like that. Yep, Marcelino and that 4 foot something bloke sunderland bought around 2001 for a fair wack, played a half. the club who sold the lad lied about his details. sunderland = tres stupid there Milton Nunez, from Honduras. You'd think at a club of that size SOMEONE should have had him watched before they signed him.. chris sutton for chelsea? george weah's 'brother' that souness signed at southampton? haha. akinbiyi must be up there. The poison dwarf was the worst, though. How can someone paid so much (£40k/week) deliver so little? And then when we kicked him off the gravy train, he tried to shut us down!
Joe. Posted 29 May 2007 Posted 29 May 2007 Bosko Balaban- Aston Villa (8 apps, 0 goals) (£5.8 million) Craig Bellamy- Coventry (39 apps, 8 goals, 8 bookings) (£6.5 million) Ali Dia- Southampton (1 app, 0 goals) Dia's agent rang up manager at the time Graeme Souness pretending to be World Player of the year George Weah. 'Weah' claimed Dia was his cousin and the next big thing so without having seen him play, Souness took Dia on loan. A few cancelled reserve games saw Dia scrape through for a place on the bench against Leeds. He was thrown on, and thanks to his quickly apprent inability to control or pass the ball, lasted 14 minutes before a red- faced Souness dragged him off.
Simi Posted 29 May 2007 Posted 29 May 2007 Ali Dia- Southampton (1 app, 0 goals) Dia's agent rang up manager at the time Graeme Souness pretending to be World Player of the year George Weah. 'Weah' claimed Dia was his cousin and the next big thing so without having seen him play, Souness took Dia on loan. A few cancelled reserve games saw Dia scrape through for a place on the bench against Leeds. He was thrown on, and thanks to his quickly apprent inability to control or pass the ball, lasted 14 minutes before a red- faced Souness dragged him off. I rememeber watching a programme on Worlds Worst Players and he was in the top 5.
Dr The Singh Posted 29 May 2007 Posted 29 May 2007 What about Andrea Silenzi, who signed for Forest, signed for 1.8 mill, made only 20 appearances and signed 2 goals!!!
Stuliasz Posted 29 May 2007 Posted 29 May 2007 Sean Dundee at Liverpool - overpriced and rubbish Daniel Cordone at Newcastle - rubbish Ibrahima Bakayoko at Everton - only signed because he was amazing on CM97/98
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