Rhys Williams Christophe Lepoint Yohann Thuram-Ulien Roger Johnson (2nd spell) Peter Parsley (not his fault, Mowgli's)
Hull City away, and my son talks me into an away day to see the Tigers and another new ground ! Roger Johnson and Rhys Williams are the CB and the returning Diego Poyet who played in front of them ! I wouldn't say we were bad but if Hull City hadn't declared after 80 minutes when it was 6 nil it could of reached double figures.
How has nobody included the likes of Emanuel Frimpong or Tresor Kandol in this list - both truly awful.
On a related note, I still have a chuckle to myself when I think of Francois Coquelin went from being on loan with us, to the UCL latter stages in about three and a half weeks!
Whoops, that will teach me to research/post by cell phone. I was trying to look up who ran finances at the club, figuring whoever that is, is completely useless. In a listing of club staff, Keith's name and title is next to that finance person. Did not mean to tease the Club Ambassador.
Whoops, that will teach me to research/post by cell phone. I was trying to look up who ran finances at the club, figuring whoever that is, is completely useless. In a listing of club staff, Keith's name and title is next to that finance person. Did not mean to tease the Club Ambassador.
Bloody hell. I know you're reasonably new to this but if you don't know who KP is you might as well not bother.
Whoops, that will teach me to research/post by cell phone. I was trying to look up who ran finances at the club, figuring whoever that is, is completely useless. In a listing of club staff, Keith's name and title is next to that finance person. Did not mean to tease the Club Ambassador.
Was the awful goal keeper who Chris Powell was told to put in the starting 11...by our owner.
Forgot his name but he couldn't catch a football. Catching a football is mostly at least a minimal requirement for a professional goal keeper.
Didn't he also refuse to travel to Leeds as he thought he was too good for the bench?
Nothing against him personally. I know most of the blame regarding that particular situation lies 100% on Roland's shoulders.
The player probably got told a load of fibs.
Our 2nd worse signing is the giant bag of Belgium standard Liege Reserves. Too many names to remember.
Probably Earned the equivalent of £600 a week ...while playing for a club in the championship...because our owner knows best and is a twat and believes he is smart and can cut corners.
Most of our bad signings are just due to the moronic selfish narrow minded behaviour of Roland Duchatelet.
im leaving out some of the obvious Roland era numpties like Thuram. We signed the above before things went nuts with the exception of Ajose who I think is an utter chancer.
Whoops, that will teach me to research/post by cell phone. I was trying to look up who ran finances at the club, figuring whoever that is, is completely useless. In a listing of club staff, Keith's name and title is next to that finance person. Did not mean to tease the Club Ambassador.
Picking 5 who were the most disappointing/biggest wastes of money is really hard. Could have included Andy Jones, Andy Gray, Amdy Faye, Simon Walton, Nicky Ajose...
Francis Jeffers Marcus Bent Djimi Traoré Luke Varney El Hadji Ba
Other players were worse, but I had lower expectations (e.g. Tom Hovi or the likes of Mooney, Akpo Sodje, Church etc)
To be fair to the Roland era players, many of them were never given a chance to settle. He's a cult hero now, but before this season Naby Sarr would have been in my top 5 as well, considering his fee and wages.
Not seen the name Tom Hovi anywhere unless I missed it.
Ruined my 15th birthday if I recall correctly. 3-1 at home to Derby in January 1995, lost 4-3, mainly thanks to him. Then rubbed salt in the wounds by appearing in Champions League and UEFA Cup matches for Valeranga on a regular basis.
I'd still pick him over RoJo, Christophe LePoint and all of the other numpties that Roland's foisted on us though.
Cristian Ceballos (Provided absolutely nothing and took the worst corner football has ever seen, vs Derby I believe) Simon Makienok (Probably one of the tallest to ever play for Charlton and couldn't win a header for shit) Rhys Williams (Rewatched the Hull 6-0 highlights, never seen a defender give so much space) El Hadji-Ba (Offered nothing, a regular in League 2 for Lens, haven't a clue how) Yohann Thuram (The first of 5 years worth of mistakes under the reign of Duchatelet)
Sidenote, I became a Charlton fan halfway through the 2013-2014 season, aka right when Roland took over. Shocked I haven't smashed my head against a brick wall yet
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Roger Johnson and Rhys Williams are the CB and the returning Diego Poyet who played in front of them !
I wouldn't say we were bad but if Hull City hadn't declared after 80 minutes when it was 6 nil it could of reached double figures.
On a related note, I still have a chuckle to myself when I think of Francois Coquelin went from being on loan with us, to the UCL latter stages in about three and a half weeks!
And Palace wanted £1m for him.
Was the awful goal keeper who Chris Powell was told to put in the starting 11...by our owner.
Forgot his name but he couldn't catch a football. Catching a football is mostly at least a minimal requirement for a professional goal keeper.
Didn't he also refuse to travel to Leeds as he thought he was too good for the bench?
Nothing against him personally. I know most of the blame regarding that particular situation lies 100% on Roland's shoulders.
The player probably got told a load of fibs.
Our 2nd worse signing is the giant bag of Belgium standard Liege Reserves. Too many names to remember.
Probably Earned the equivalent of £600 a week ...while playing for a club in the championship...because our owner knows best and is a twat and believes he is smart and can cut corners.
Most of our bad signings are just due to the moronic selfish narrow minded behaviour of Roland Duchatelet.
This was a very dark day in our recent history. Considering what we paid and what we thought we were getting, these two are hard to beat.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/charlton_athletic/5257776.stm
"We're delighted to have made two quality signings, and they will both improve our first team squad," said Charlton coach Iain Dowie."
Darren Bent
Mark Kinsella
Clive Mendonca
Dean Kiely
Lyle Taylor
For what its worth, my worst 5 are-
Djimi Traore
Amdy Faye
George Tucudean
Yohann Thuram
El-Hadji Ba
5 who didn’t live up to expectations:-
Jimmy Hassellwank
Neil Redfearn
Dennis Rommedhal
Danny Murphy
Izale McLeod
5 who were simply WTF???
Christophe LePoint
Zakarya Bergdich
Emmanuel Frimpong
Leon Clarke
Yaya Sonogo
See, I said it was difficult to only pick 5!
Pouso
Ba
Novak
Ajose
im leaving out some of the obvious Roland era numpties like Thuram. We signed the above before things went nuts with the exception of Ajose who I think is an utter chancer.
Going back a bit, and possibly a bit unfair as he was a decent player really but past it by the time he came to us, Maurice Setters.
Worst five signings since we got back to The Valley
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Unless its meant to be post Catford Mount
Francis Jeffers
Marcus Bent
Djimi Traoré
Luke Varney
El Hadji Ba
Other players were worse, but I had lower expectations (e.g. Tom Hovi or the likes of Mooney, Akpo Sodje, Church etc)
To be fair to the Roland era players, many of them were never given a chance to settle. He's a cult hero now, but before this season Naby Sarr would have been in my top 5 as well, considering his fee and wages.
Meire the liar
Dowie
Yohann Thuram
Karel Fraeye
I'd still pick him over RoJo, Christophe LePoint and all of the other numpties that Roland's foisted on us though.
Simon Makienok (Probably one of the tallest to ever play for Charlton and couldn't win a header for shit)
Rhys Williams (Rewatched the Hull 6-0 highlights, never seen a defender give so much space)
El Hadji-Ba (Offered nothing, a regular in League 2 for Lens, haven't a clue how)
Yohann Thuram (The first of 5 years worth of mistakes under the reign of Duchatelet)
Sidenote, I became a Charlton fan halfway through the 2013-2014 season, aka right when Roland took over. Shocked I haven't smashed my head against a brick wall yet