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most bizarre Charlton signing

hoof_it_up_to_benty
hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,535
in General Charlton
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.
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  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 8,011
    Thuram
    Le Point
    Anal Cock
    Piotr
    Nego
    Sarr
    Bergdich
    Johnson (twice)

    etc, etc, etc.
  • CafcWest
    CafcWest Posts: 6,218
    I'll be the first to say Cory Gibbs...
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,802
    Allan Simonsen surely?!?
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,670
    edited February 2016
    Alan Simonsen - Close thread ;0)
  • ateamofcorygibbs
    ateamofcorygibbs Posts: 1,215
    cafc-west said:

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

    That was my line...
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 13,077
    John Barnes was a bit of an odd one
  • Pedro45
    Pedro45 Posts: 5,882
    Alan Davies
    Scott Sinclair
    Neil Etheridge
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,554
    Traore & Faye for a combined fee of 4 million. It made no sense then and still doesn't.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,888
    Tom Hovi
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,888
    Fanni

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  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 12,026
    Mike Small
  • Oh_Yoni_Boy
    Oh_Yoni_Boy Posts: 1,763
    Jimmy Floyd Piggybainks
  • cashncarry
    cashncarry Posts: 981
    Small,fanni
  • NorthStandUltra
    NorthStandUltra Posts: 2,543
    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
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,609
    Karim Bagheri.
  • jdsd42
    jdsd42 Posts: 1,505
    carlton cole ...
  • flyingkiwiDK
    flyingkiwiDK Posts: 5,734
    Eggert
  • Nicholas
    Nicholas Posts: 7,664
    Karim Bagherifanny the iranian captain, played about 20 minutes away to ipswich and was never seen again.
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,378
    Tahar El Khalej. Just why.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 21,048
    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.

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  • Gravesend_Addick
    Gravesend_Addick Posts: 7,330
    Mikel Alonso
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,226
    edited February 2016
    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
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    Johnny Ostergaard
    Viggo Jacobsen
    Barry Endean
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 11,057
    edited February 2016
    Jesper Blomqvist
    Juan Cobian
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,609
    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
    iainment Posts: 8,067
    Meire surely.
  • StigThundercock
    StigThundercock Posts: 3,722
    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
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    David Tuttle. Most of the players since the Belgians have been squatting.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,326
    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
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    cashncarry said:

    Small,fanni

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

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