Our managers best signings.

Dave2l

You can only choose one player for each manager. I'm not old enough for the Lennie era, even if I know of his recruits, I won't comment on players I have not seen live. Include older managers to what I have produced in your list if you want. (May have been done a thousand times already).

Curbs - Claus Jensen (Darren bent a close 2nd)

Dowie - Andy Reid

Pardew - Nick Bailey

Parky - Johnnie Jackson

Chris Powell - Rhoys Wiggins (only him and Wilson still left in our current squad, that Powell signed. Correct me if I'm wrong)

Riga - I don't think he signed anyone apart from a lame striker that pitched in with a few goals the season before. Help me out here.

Peeters - JBG

Luzon - Diarra!

Covered_End_Lad

Tony watt was here before luzon

Dave2l

Covered_End_Lad said:

Tony watt was here before luzon

Correct.

Stone

The Curbs list is long. Kinsella, Mendonca, Andy Hunt, Graham Stuart, Powell, Costa, Fish and Bartlett to name a but a few. I loved Jensen but Super Clive for me, followed by Kinsella.

Powell Is Pleasant

I'd have gone for:
Curbs - Kinsella
and
Powell - Kermorgant
...off the top of my head, anyway.

Scoham

For Powell it's got to be Yann, he was the difference between us competing for promotion and winning the league comfortably. Don't think many clubs would have taken a chance on him after he struggled at Leicester and missed that penalty in the play-offs.

Dave2l

Only 1 player per manager. That's the tricky part.

Well for curbs and Powell it is.

letthegoodtimesroll

Curbs - kinsella...best signing by a charltonlife manager in my time...no contest

letthegoodtimesroll

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Curbs - kinsella...best signing by a charlton manager in my time...no contest

CafcWest

Did Les Reed sign anyone...?

kentaddick

cafc-west said:

Did Les Reed sign anyone...?

his 3 year contract?

ricky_otto

cafc-west said:

Did Les Reed sign anyone...?

He didn't sign anybody. But I'm sure he brought Zheng Zhi to the club on trial.

cafcnick1992

Curbs - Bent (not Marcus)

Dowie - Andy Reid

Pardew - Nicky Bailey

Parky - Jacko (I was a big fan of Deon Burton though)

Chris Powell - Got to be Kermorgant

Riga - n/a

Peeters - n/a

Luzon - n/a

Bryan_Kynsie

Some of the early Curbs signings to get us challenging for the PL were his best. I would put Johnny Robinson in that category.

wmcf123

It's Mendonca for Curbs. His signing Transformed us from mid table regulars to a premier league side

SantaClaus

Danny Mills should be on the shortlist for Curb"s best signing

killerandflash

Lennie - The head says someone like Bob Bolder, but the heart says Shirtliff for those 2 goals, without which we might not even have a club!
Curbs - Super Clive, the guy who got us promoted which made a massive difference to our history
Dowie - Andy Reid (or Carson on loan)
Les Reed -
Pardew - Nicky Bailey (just about the only signing from his time we made a profit on!)
Parky - Jacko
Powell - Kermorgant or BWP
Riga -
Peeters - JBG (if it was him who signed him!)
Luzon - Diarra

MartinCAFC

Curbs - Clive Mendonca

Dowie - Andy Reid

Pardew - Alex Song if loan signings count too?

Parky - Johnnie Jackson

Chris Powell - Yann Kermorgant

Riga - n/a

Peeters - JBG

Luzon - Allou Diarra

The network (RD) - Tony Watt

ashley

Who signed Dean Kiely ? Curbs surely .Deano has to get a mention in a list of candidates despite his kicking

Dave2l

Considering "The network (RD)" is probably too much of an influence to give the managers working under it, credit for the player recruitment.

Could disregard peeters for player signings.

Also dowie as we had that general manager.

As much as I'd like to praise powelly for giving the club some anil koc. It was given to him.

cabbles

Pardew - Weaver, McLeod, Soares, Andy Gray,

Parky - Tresor Kandol

Powell - Gower

I loved them all

killerandflash

cabbles said:

Pardew - Weaver, McLeod, Soares, Andy Gray,

Parky - Tresor Kandol

Powell - Gower

I loved them all

Curbs - Tom Hovi?

markmc68

Masterstroke from Curbs.
Mills and Youds when everybody was after a striker.

LenGlover

Interesting thread and tough to answer and tomorrow's answers are likely to differ from today's.


Frank Hill - Mike Kenning

Bob Stokoe - Cliff Holton

Eddie Firmani - Matt Tees

Theo Foley - Derek Hales

Andy Nelson - Dick Tydeman

Mike Bailey -

Alan Mullery - Allan Simonsen

Ken Craggs -

Lennie Lawrence - John Humphrey

Alan Curbishley / Steve Gritt - Garry Nelson

Alan Curbishley - Mark Kinsella

Iain Dowie - Andy Reid

Les Reed - Zheng Zhi

Alan Pardew - Chris Iwelumo

Phil Parkinson - Johnnie Jackson

Chris Powell - Yann Kermorgant

My brain hurts so cannot think re Bailey and Craggs just now.

markmc68

I forgot Francis Jeffers. He must rank as one of Curb's best signings. For two games anyway.

redlanered

LenGlover said:

Interesting thread and tough to answer and tomorrow's answers are likely to differ from today's.


Frank Hill - Mike Kenning

Bob Stokoe - Cliff Holton

Eddie Firmani - Matt Tees

Theo Foley - Derek Hales

Andy Nelson - Dick Tydeman

Mike Bailey -

Alan Mullery - Allan Simonsen

Ken Craggs -

Lennie Lawrence - John Humphrey

Alan Curbishley / Steve Gritt - Garry Nelson

Alan Curbishley - Mark Kinsella

Iain Dowie - Andy Reid

Les Reed - Zheng Zhi

Alan Pardew - Chris Iwelumo

Phil Parkinson - Johnnie Jackson

Chris Powell - Yann Kermorgant

My brain hurts so cannot think re Bailey and Craggs just now.

Mark Aizlewood for Craggs?

LenGlover

redlanered said:

LenGlover said:

Interesting thread and tough to answer and tomorrow's answers are likely to differ from today's.


Frank Hill - Mike Kenning

Bob Stokoe - Cliff Holton

Eddie Firmani - Matt Tees

Theo Foley - Derek Hales

Andy Nelson - Dick Tydeman

Mike Bailey -

Alan Mullery - Allan Simonsen

Ken Craggs -

Lennie Lawrence - John Humphrey

Alan Curbishley / Steve Gritt - Garry Nelson

Alan Curbishley - Mark Kinsella

Iain Dowie - Andy Reid

Les Reed - Zheng Zhi

Alan Pardew - Chris Iwelumo

Phil Parkinson - Johnnie Jackson

Chris Powell - Yann Kermorgant

My brain hurts so cannot think re Bailey and Craggs just now.

Mark Aizlewood for Craggs?

Well done!

Wasn't sure whether he was early Lennie or not.

redlanered

LenGlover said:

redlanered said:

LenGlover said:

Interesting thread and tough to answer and tomorrow's answers are likely to differ from today's.


Frank Hill - Mike Kenning

Bob Stokoe - Cliff Holton

Eddie Firmani - Matt Tees

Theo Foley - Derek Hales

Andy Nelson - Dick Tydeman

Mike Bailey -

Alan Mullery - Allan Simonsen

Ken Craggs -

Lennie Lawrence - John Humphrey

Alan Curbishley / Steve Gritt - Garry Nelson

Alan Curbishley - Mark Kinsella

Iain Dowie - Andy Reid

Les Reed - Zheng Zhi

Alan Pardew - Chris Iwelumo

Phil Parkinson - Johnnie Jackson

Chris Powell - Yann Kermorgant

My brain hurts so cannot think re Bailey and Craggs just now.

Mark Aizlewood for Craggs?

Well done!

Wasn't sure whether he was early Lennie or not.

Deffo Craggs, but thinking again, so was Simonsen I think Len.

oohaahmortimer

Curbs-SCP for giving us the chance for our love affair to begin ❤️

Callumcafc

Curbs - Kishishev

wmcf123

ashley said:

Who signed Dean Kiely ? Curbs surely .Deano has to get a mention in a list of candidates despite his kicking

True. I don't go back as far as Bolder but the keepers between him and Deano were pony ( other than the few games of Royce)