It must be the stray black cat which was signed up I believe in the 1960s and which subsequently appeared on the front cover of the national Football League magazine which went out free in club programmes across the land for a few years.
Lepoint has to go in there because he seemed to be a sensible signing on paper - hard working, dynamic box to box midfielder - who could contribute to our attempt to stay up, then went on to sub on occasionally, get chucked up front against Cardiff and disappear into the ether, all while looking like an anorexic Mark Strong. Has anyone ever asked Katrien to explain that one? It's one thing signing players who go on to be rubbish but he didn't even have the chance to show us just how rubbish he could be
Steve Barbé. Don't think he did anything other than sit on the bench. It probably goes without saying that he's a Belgian.
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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.
Or Christian Bolanos. Another work permit casualty who turned up at the last world cup playing really well for costa rica
Piotr Parsyceck by a country fecking mile. Mikel Alonso was at the arse end of his career and I wasn't expecting much from him but when you consider who we flogged to get PP in makes me wince. As Colonel Kurtz put it "the horror...."
From the 1960's I give you Maurice Setters. A top player in his prime, played for Man U I believe. We got him at the arse-end of his career, after he had a broken leg. Def Midfield, he could'nt run, just hopped with a limp!
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
People are just naming signings that didn't work out. I thought Hasselbaink was a very exciting signing at the time, certainly not bizarre.
Bizarre would be players like Yohann Thuram who was forced into the team against the managers wishes. That sort of shite massively trumps signings like JFH and even Traore and Faye.
I dunno @cafctom , the Boro fans were warning us he was a waste of space, and cerainly occupied a lot of that. For my money, it was Simonsen. Great player, but a European footballer of the year, signed from Barcelona to play at second division Charlton? How much more weird is there? Plus he was so out of our league moneywise we almost went out of business due to signing him.
It must be the stray black cat which was signed up I believe in the 1960s and which subsequently appeared on the front cover of the national Football League magazine which went out free in club programmes across the land for a few years.
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Mind you didn't Johnny score a wonder goal away at (I think) Wrexham ?
Still bizzare thou
Bizarre would be players like Yohann Thuram who was forced into the team against the managers wishes. That sort of shite massively trumps signings like JFH and even Traore and Faye.
For my money, it was Simonsen. Great player, but a European footballer of the year, signed from Barcelona to play at second division Charlton? How much more weird is there? Plus he was so out of our league moneywise we almost went out of business due to signing him.