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10 Worst Signings of the Season

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 499 ✭✭Beanmachine


    Claudio Pizzaro even though he was free he is pure muck.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭aidan24326


    To be fair to Roy he picked up some of those players very cheap so it's not like he has wasted big money. Andy Cole was a free, Stokes was cheap and Roy O'Donovan cost next to nothing. He has made some mistakes alright but I think he needs to start going for a higher calibre of player rather than messing around with the likes of O'Donovan who will never be more than an average squad player at best.

    It's only really a bad signing where you're forking out alot of money for a player who turns out to be crap. That's why Darren Bent is on the list, he's a decent player but 16 Million is alot of money for a sub. Only Chelsea can afford that sort of luxury.

    Our own Duffer has been a bit of waste of cash for Newcastle too it must be said. Constantly injured.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,124 ✭✭✭Jonny Arson


    any Derby County signing
    80% of Roy Keane's signings (honorable mentions to Paul McShane, Russell Anderson and Greg Halford)
    50% of Fulham's signings (honorable mentions Seol Ki Hyeon and Lee Cook)
    any Newcastle defensive signings (David Rozenhal... lol)
    Benjani

    was going to include Nery Castillo and Valeri Bojinov but they probably should go in the most unlucky signings of the season thread


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,219 ✭✭✭invincibleirish


    I think a contender for worst signing of the season has to be Aston Villas own Zat Knight.

    the fact his most telling contribution this season to the Villa cause has been when he was in a Fulham shirt and scored an OG against Villa at the start of the season says a lot.

    despite playing second fiddle to Laursen & Davies for a lot of the season, some of Villas worst results have been when Zat has started.

    Villa went on a run of something like 21 games without keeping a clean sheet that was only halted against Bolton 2 weeks ago.

    He gots caught out a lot and is clumsy.

    He's previous claim to fame is he was one of those strange Sven caps during the latter days of his reign.

    He also was caught up in some glorious red top headlines, which i'll share here for comedy purposes:

    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article266798.ece
    SOCCER star Zat Knight was led away in handcuffs after armed drug cops raided his mum’s house early yesterday.

    The England defender’s brother Carlos, 26, wearing only his underwear, was marched out at gunpoint by police backed up by dogs.

    Substances believed to be Class A drugs crack cocaine and heroin were said to have been seized at the house in Erdington, Birmingham.

    Only hours later, talented 6ft 6in Zat was paraded by Premiership club Aston Villa as their new £3.5million signing.

    Oh the hilarity of it all!

    /Character Assassination complete/


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,198 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Claudio Caçapa - Lyon selling off their captain must have been an orange-sticker day for Big Sam. Unfortunately the 'may contain traces of talent' warning was a cruel lure.

    All of Manchester City's strikers from Bojinov to Benjani.

    Baros and Nugent gave the lie to Harrys goldfinger transfer rep.

    Nicolas Anelka's signing was annoyingly predictable and utterly pointless, once again landing the talented big fish in a vast, overpopulated pond with only one fish-bicycle.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭leninbenjamin


    Zat knight for me too actually. what a horrible player, dunno what O Neill was thinking, he was always a liability for Fulham. he'd struggle in the Championship tbh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25,953 ✭✭✭✭kryogen


    Ballacks form since he has actually started playing for Chelsea without Mourinho is very good actually, he still has it....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,677 ✭✭✭genericgoon


    Robbie Savage deserves a mention.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 930 ✭✭✭Hero Of College


    kryogen wrote: »
    Ballacks form since he has actually started playing for Chelsea without Mourinho is very good actually, he still has it....

    Dunphy says Ballacks legs have gone....but Dunphy likes to say that about everyone, Xabi Alonso, Fernando Morientes {before he went back to Valencia and had fun doing his best to KO Chelsea} Harry Kewell, Sami Hyppia...everybodies legs have gone if you ask Eamonn.:p Fcuk it...if you asked Eamonn if HIS legs had gone he'd prolly agree they had!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭leninbenjamin


    Dunphy says Ballacks legs have gone....but Dunphy likes to say that about everyone, Xabi Alonso, Fernando Morientes {before he went back to Valencia and had fun doing his best to KO Chelsea} Harry Kewell, Sami Hyppia...everybodies legs have gone if you ask Eamonn.:p Fcuk it...if you asked Eamonn if HIS legs had gone he'd prolly agree they had!!!

    hmmm, you like to compare what everyone says to Dunphy. care to actually talk about football here?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 930 ✭✭✭Hero Of College


    hmmm, you like to compare what everyone says to Dunphy. care to actually talk about football here?


    How would I know what anyone said to Dunphy:confused::confused::confused::confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭leninbenjamin


    How would I know what anyone said to Dunphy:confused::confused::confused::confused:

    well why do you keep bringing him up when no one has mentioned him? there are numerous threads giving out about Dunphy here. i suggest you stick to posting in them in the future if you're incapable of discussing football without making reference to him.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 930 ✭✭✭Hero Of College


    well why do you keep bringing him up when no one has mentioned him? there are numerous threads giving out about Dunphy here. i suggest you stick to posting in them in the future if you're incapable of discussing football without making reference to him.

    Listen...I say what I want. If you have a gripe contact a MOD. I will abide by whatever decision they reach.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭leninbenjamin


    Listen...I say what I want. If you have a gripe contact a MOD. I will abide by whatever decision they reach.

    i don't have a gripe with what you say. i'm just asking you to explain why you are saying what you are saying, as frankly it appears to have absolutely no relevance given the context of the thread. apologies if i didn't make that clear.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 930 ✭✭✭Hero Of College


    i don't have a gripe with what you say. i'm just asking you to explain why you are saying what you are saying, as frankly it appears to have absolutely no relevance given the context of the thread. apologies if i didn't make that clear.

    I am saying that a bigshot journo ex-footballer analyst says that Ballacks legs have gone, and hes not the player he used to be. Therefore, surely this is of some relevance to any discussion about the merits or demerits of an argument about whether Ballack was a bad signing or not.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭leninbenjamin


    I am saying that a bigshot journo ex-footballer analyst says that Ballacks legs have gone, and hes not the player he used to be. Therefore, surely this is of some relevance to any discussion about the merits or demerits of an argument about whether Ballack was a bad signing or not.

    not particularly, unless you're going to either agree with or argue against the points the make. you did neither other than slag him off.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 930 ✭✭✭Hero Of College


    not particularly, unless you're going to either agree with or argue against the points the make. you did neither other than slag him off.

    I am just telling people what a man of great experience on these matters said. it is up to them to do what they will with the opinion proferred by the great man himself.


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