Big Nige: I cleared out Sven's rubbish

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I made a list of Sven's acquisitions (cos I'm sad and clearly have no life), thought it would be relevant here.

All the players that Sven brought in, both loans and permanents:

Patrick Van Aanolt - on loan from Chelsea, not brilliant, scored a goal for us once.

Bruma - on loan from Chelsea, went unnoticed for most games until scoring 2 screamers in one match

Naughton - on loan from Spurs. Very good player.

Yak - on loan from Everton. He had Berbatov syndrome. Very good player. Very lazy. His goal scoring ratio was impressive

Bamba - Fans favourite, unpredictable on the pitch though

Ricardo - Probably best to watch with your eyes closed.

Mee - On loan from Man City, promising youngster. Just ask Burnley.

Vassell - Past his best

Kamara - Who?

Davies - on loan from Villa. Looked solid, slightly over-rated, seems to be doing well for himself now at Hull

Cunningham - Anyone was better than Joe Mattock

Bednar - Hopeless

Kirkland - Injured

Schmeichel - Sven's best signing

Peltier - Had a strong season for us.

Konchesky - Great pro

Paintsil - Pointless signing

Mills - He had the Andy Carroll problem. Cost too much.

StLedger - He's been good for us, despite injury concerns.

Ball - See Paintsil.

Johnson - on loan from Man City. He was expected to be the next big thing. Fitness was an issue

Danns - Hate to say this, but there once was a time - about 4 games 2 years ago - that he looked like a good signing

Fernandes - Only player to score a winning goal against Spain at a tournament in the last 6 years. On loan, very good player

Beckford - NOT SVEN'S first choice. Sven himself has claimed that this was a 'bad signing'

Nugent - Great signing.

Summary, Sven brought in a lot of very good players ON LOAN who were almost definitely on too much money. I don't think he can be blamed for players being disappointments: Johnson was seen as the next big thing, Mills was very good for Reading, Danns was a key player for Palace. Sven was reckless but on paper, at the time, the signings he made were positive ones.

Fernandes was poor for us, did very little and jumped ship when Sven left. Massively overrated by a small band of city fans, the rest of us were glad he left. Ssl has not been a success as well.