Daft signings

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bertieblade said:
Which are the most ridiculous signings we have ever made, not due to their quality but the circumstances

Start the ball rolling with
John Ebbrell
Signed with a history of injuries which meant nominee would insure him and we all know what happened

Leon Britton
Signed by Blackwell to boss our midfield, but then proceeded to miss it out by kicking the ball back to front and missing out midfield
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I get why people are down on the Ebrell signing, but.... I am guess the thinking behind it was that we had to buy a 'risky' player because we couldn't get a Premiership player any other way. Signing him injured and hence uninsured was pretty witless though in honesty.

A worse signing (in theory) at the time though was Ian Hamilton. A player not good enough to get in the WBA team who we were below us at the time, can't imagine the thought process behind that one at all.
 
The Goalie we signed from Stoke in the JTW. Poor bloke signed on a 6 month deal and hasn't had a look in. His contract will have ended and he hasnt played any football. Not his fault at all, or anyone's really, just one of those things.
 
SouthStandGBlock said:
The Goalie we signed from Stoke in the JTW. Poor bloke signed on a 6 month deal and hasn't had a look in. His contract will have ended and he hasnt played any football. Not his fault at all, or anyone's really, just one of those things.
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It's not a daft signing though, is it? We needed cover for Wes just in case, and that's exactly what we got.
 
Luke Freeman - finally someone to replace Duffy at #10 only for CW to change formation and play a flat three across the middle, thereby reducing Freeman to cover for Fleck in a position he's unaccustomed to.

Other signings haven't worked out but in terms of daft ones, it has to be up there as I have no idea what the thinking was behind it.
 
Jack Rodwell. Wilder’s project at turning around the well known dead loss that was Ravel Morrison led him to sign Rodwell also. A complete waste of wages.
 
Gin&Juice said:
At the time I thought James Beattie was a pointless signing - in some respects I still do.

We had Stead, Hulse, Shelton, Webber and then Sharp added in. I thought with Hulse coming back we'd have a really strong strikeforce anyway, the big thing was lack of creativity in midfield, we really suffered in the prem without an influential playmaker. We then spent 4 Million on Beattie who was terrible the season before at Everton on 40K a week.

Unpopular opinion as well, when we sold Beattie, we actually played better with Ward and Henderson going into the playoffs, for whatever reason Blackwell signed Craig Beattie and played him as a loan striker with Halford and Cotterill on the wings, which worked, but we were rubbish in the Palace game and the Playoff final.
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I have been waiting years, to hear someone else say this !
 
Page 2 and nobody's said McBurnie yet?

Was there when he scored that goal against Brighton though and I was a believer in McBurnianity. I'm agnostic now.
 

Ben Heneghan, Nathan Thomas, Mamadou Seck, David Sommeil, Lilian Nalis.
 
mancunianblade said:
Fully agree, just seems to be a catalogue of hindsight on this thread though
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Agreed.

When he came i thought cool, solid credentials.

Keep in mind I was also on board with the McBurnie signing at the time.

Moral of the story is I know fuck all...
 

You only have to look at our current squad to identify a few; especially from that second season in the PL.

Remember that this is daftest signing not the worst, so on that basis I’d say signing Rhian Brewster at £23m at a time when it was evident we needed something else in midfield to kick on (could have got Buendia at that time, for example). Similarly, it was known that JOC was injured and we had no solid replacement at the club. Ignoring both of these areas arguably got us relegated, as we became soft touches at the back, with no creativity or flair in midfield.
 
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