ealingfox Posted 6 June 2013 Posted 6 June 2013 Who in the game has punched most above their weight, gatecrashed the biggest achievements and acted the highest above their station? I'll start with the obvious candidate for us, Zeljko Kalac having a Champion's League Winners medal Was also going to put Benni McCarthy with him, but can't decide if that's a bit harsh as he had some very decent seasons, including at Porto in the season they won it. Steve Kean becoming a manager also seemed a massive blag.
Miquel The Work Geordie Posted 6 June 2013 Posted 6 June 2013 Igor Biscan has a CL winner's medal. Ali Dia has to top the list, though - surely?!
ealingfox Posted 6 June 2013 Author Posted 6 June 2013 Ali Dia almost certainly is the biggest, could categorise that differently as it was a literal blag rather than a figurative one. Good work Souness! Can somebody ring Pearson pretending to be Lionel Messi and tell Nige I'm his cousin and I'm really good?
Guest MattP Posted 6 June 2013 Posted 6 June 2013 Ali Dia has to be top, to end up on a Premiership pitch when you had hardly ever played a game is briliant. As for real 'pro', hard to argue with Sven. He's still managing to blag his way into jobs now despite failing in his 'objective' at England, Man City, Mexico, Ivory Coast, Notts County, Leicester, Tero and Al Nasi since doing his last good job.
AdamN Posted 6 June 2013 Posted 6 June 2013 Ali Dia was also the first one that popped into my head. A bit closer to home, I'd have to say Pegguy Arphexad for his time at Liverpool. Not that he was a poor keeper or anything, just for the fact that he never played! Arphexad won six medals with Liverpool, all as an unused substitute. These included three in Liverpool's treble winning 2000–01 season, where they won the FA Cup, the Football League Cup and the UEFA Cup. Two subsequent medals followed the following season as Liverpool claimed both the Charity Shield and the European Super Cup. He earned a second League Cup winners medal in the 2002–03 season.
Miquel The Work Geordie Posted 6 June 2013 Posted 6 June 2013 Ali Dia has to be top, to end up on a Premiership pitch when you had hardly ever played a game is briliant. As for real 'pro', hard to argue with Sven. He's still managing to blag his way into jobs now despite failing in his 'objective' at England, Man City, Mexico, Ivory Coast, Notts County, Leicester, Tero and Al Nasi since doing his last good job. And all he did at Lazio was leave them in utter ruins after spunking a load of cash down the pan. For every Salas / Crespo / Veron there was a Mendieta / Stam / Lopez. At the time they were spending gargantuan amounts of wonga, weren't they?
Ford Super Sunday Posted 6 June 2013 Posted 6 June 2013 And all he did at Lazio was leave them in utter ruins after spunking a load of cash down the pan. For every Salas / Crespo / Veron there was a Mendieta / Stam / Lopez. At the time they were spending gargantuan amounts of wonga, weren't they? Except Sven became manager of England on 12 January 2001, six months before Mendieta joined and seven months before Stam joined.... Unless he was still their transfer advisor. Not sure he was though.
Miquel The Work Geordie Posted 6 June 2013 Posted 6 June 2013 Christ - either way, he splashed a fair bit, didn't he?
Guest MattP Posted 6 June 2013 Posted 6 June 2013 And all he did at Lazio was leave them in utter ruins after spunking a load of cash down the pan. For every Salas / Crespo / Veron there was a Mendieta / Stam / Lopez. At the time they were spending gargantuan amounts of wonga, weren't they? You coudl argue he did ok, the problem was he needed money of Man City proportions to win one league title in about four years. Sergio Conceicao for 40million euros is still for me the worst signing of all time.
ealingfox Posted 6 June 2013 Author Posted 6 June 2013 You coudl argue he did ok, the problem was he needed money of Man City proportions to win one league title in about four years. Sergio Conceicao for 40million euros is still for me the worst signing of all time. Not worse than Andy Carroll for 35 million quid surely?
Miquel The Work Geordie Posted 6 June 2013 Posted 6 June 2013 We live in a world where Cameron Jerome is an 8 million pound player. Makes the Carroll fee look a bargain.
ealingfox Posted 6 June 2013 Author Posted 6 June 2013 Evra? Never thought he was that good and he's done loads
ealingfox Posted 6 June 2013 Author Posted 6 June 2013 Thomas Graverson got a move to Real Madrid Good shout. Julian Faubert also played for them! Actually think Giggs has blagged it quite a lot for the last 5 or 6 years. He's contributed in small ways to Man United teams but if you'd stuck him in a bottom-half team he'd have done fvck all imo.
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