most bizarre Charlton signing

hoof_it_up_to_benty

Has to be the legend that was Omar Pouso the man who scored that superb goal for Uruguay against England. Made a single appearance for us and then disappeared - not sure why we signed him?
There have been numerous 'exciting' signings that haven't worked out and it's often the unheralded ones that do the business. Kermo was certainly the one that shocked us all.

MrLargo

Thuram
Le Point
Anal Cock
Piotr
Nego
Sarr
Bergdich
Johnson (twice)

etc, etc, etc.

CafcWest

I'll be the first to say Cory Gibbs...

SuedeAdidas

Allan Simonsen surely?!?

ShootersHillGuru

Alan Simonsen - Close thread ;0)

ateamofcorygibbs

cafc-west said:

I'll be the first to say Cory Gibbs...

That was my line...

Karim_myBagheri

John Barnes was a bit of an odd one

Pedro45

Alan Davies
Scott Sinclair
Neil Etheridge

Talal

Traore & Faye for a combined fee of 4 million. It made no sense then and still doesn't.

LargeAddick

Tom Hovi

LargeAddick

Fanni

Valley11

Mike Small

Oh_Yoni_Boy

Jimmy Floyd Piggybainks

cashncarry

Small,fanni

NorthStandUltra

hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

Has to be the legend that was Omar Pouso the man who scored that superb goal for Uruguay against England. Made a single appearance for us and then disappeared - not sure why we signed him?

45 mins V Portsmouth in the relegation season

hawksmoor

Karim Bagheri.

jdsd42

carlton cole ...

flyingkiwiDK

Eggert

Nicholas

Karim Bagherifanny the iranian captain, played about 20 minutes away to ipswich and was never seen again.

Garrymanilow

Tahar El Khalej. Just why.

bobmunro

I could list quite a few but I'm sure any consensus opinion in arriving at a top 10 would show at least 8 of them took place in the last 2 years.

Gravesend_Addick

Mikel Alonso

cafcfan

Steve Barbé.
Don't think he did anything other than sit on the bench. It probably goes without saying that he's a Belgian.

or

Alessandro Santos aka Alex, the Japanese Brazilian. He'd pitched up at the club but couldn't get a work permit so the deal fell through. Probably just as well.

mistrollingin

Johnny Ostergaard
Viggo Jacobsen
Barry Endean

DamoNorthStand

Jesper Blomqvist
Juan Cobian

hawksmoor

DamoNorthStand said:

Jesper Blomqvist

Good call.

Nicholas said:

Karim Bagherifanny the iranian captain, played about 20 minutes away to ipswich and was never seen again.

I remember Keith Peacock raving about his aerial ability, that he'd never seen a player 'hang' in the air like Bagheri. I wasn't at his one and only appearance at Ipswich, but I saw him once at Sparrow's Lane. And that's something, Goddamit.

iainment

Meire surely.

StigThundercock

The ugliest man in football Ian Dowie
Surely only signed by RM to get up the nose of perma-tanned uber-ponse, stalker magnet, brother of mobile phone tycoon, bequiffed, then current palarse chairman Slime-on Jordan

ricky_otto

David Tuttle. Most of the players since the Belgians have been squatting.

killerandflash

A lot of these signings aren't bizarre at all. Yes they flopped with us, but at the time I don't remember complaints about JFH, Scott Sinclair, Blomqvist, Cole etc. They all seemed reasonable buys. Similarly, a lot of the non league signings were low cost punts, so again reasonable gambles.

Simonsen was bizarre for being far to good and expensive for us.

ricky_otto

cashncarry said:

Small,fanni

Should be a double barrelled name. Imagine that one the back of a shirt Small-Fanni