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  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,319
    We'd hardly bat an eyelid at the Pouso signing these days.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    ricky_otto said:

    cashncarry said:

    Small,fanni

    Should be a double barrelled name. Imagine that one the back of a shirt Small-Fanni
    Anil Koc.
  • Coyotejohn1947
    Coyotejohn1947 Posts: 1,164
    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.

  • Gravesend_Addick
    Gravesend_Addick Posts: 7,330
    This thread really makes you realise how many shit signings we've made over the years!!
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,378
    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
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,545
    edited February 2016
    Allan Simonsen. I mean....coming to play alongside Les Berry, Terry Bullivant and Phil Ferns. Fuck me!
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,637
    Viggo Jacobsen and (ex ice hockey player) Johnny Ostergaard

    Mind you didn't Johnny score a wonder goal away at (I think) Wrexham ?

    Still bizzare thou
  • Big_Bob
    Big_Bob Posts: 1,555
    Anil Koc and Loic Nego
  • ateamofcorygibbs
    ateamofcorygibbs Posts: 1,215
    cafcfan said:

    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.

    Or Christian Bolanos. Another work permit casualty who turned up at the last world cup playing really well for costa rica
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 51,118
    Simonsen said:

    Allan Simonsen. I mean....coming to play alongside Les Berry, Terry Bullivant and Phil Ferns. Fuck me!

    Probably the best player in a Charlton shirt that I can remember, and I have been watching since 1952

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  • Ben18
    Ben18 Posts: 1,639
    edited February 2016
    Florent Rouamba, Lloyd Doyley
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    jdsd42 said:

    carlton cole ...

    Was behind Cole in que down the BP petrol station on Woolwich Road when he put 15 quids worth of squirt in his BMW
  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,972
    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...."
  • cafcfan1990
    cafcfan1990 Posts: 12,811
    Chrissy\\\'s Army!! said:

    This thread really makes you realise how many shit signings we've made over the years!!

    so has every team in the county to be fair.
  • agim
    agim Posts: 1,139
    Even the players thought Nego was a mad signing!
  • JohnnyH2
    JohnnyH2 Posts: 5,373
    Bally Smart
  • Addictedoldgit
    Addictedoldgit Posts: 1,842
    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!
  • bellz2002
    bellz2002 Posts: 1,367
    The most confusing at the time for me was Robbie Mustoe. Didn't understand it then, don't understand it now.
  • AmandaHoldensCat
    AmandaHoldensCat Posts: 126
    StigThundercock said:

    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

    Totally Agree
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,392
    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.

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  • ct_addick
    ct_addick Posts: 4,378
    bellz2002 said:

    The most confusing at the time for me was Robbie Mustoe. Didn't understand it then, don't understand it now.

    He commentates on NBC over here in the states. Comes across as an intelligent and likeable fella! Maybe one for dressing room morale at the time?

  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,308
    edited February 2016
    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.
  • Siv_in_Norfolk
    Siv_in_Norfolk Posts: 4,084
    Coyotejohn1947 said:

    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.

    Wait... What? A black cat?

  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    No the ultimate is Katrien Meire
  • T
    T Posts: 1,349
    Another vote for the Iranian Zidane where reserve matches went from being watched by one man to 500 iranian fans with flags chanting with flares
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 95,781
    Ben18 said:

    Florent Rouamba, Lloyd Doyley

    Definitely Florent for me, wasnt even signed under the Belgian regime too, he was a Chris Powell signing
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,067
    TEL said:

    No the ultimate is Katrien Meire

    We're on the same wavelength then. But I'm on page 1!!
  • c4fcdenmark
    c4fcdenmark Posts: 2,041
    ricky_otto said:

    cashncarry said:

    Small,fanni

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

  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,317
    What about Young Fanni Costa Fortune.

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