Most Unavailable Players

[Ned the Donkey]

Prompted by the ongoing Tom Davies and Jamie Shackleton situations:

Who’s been our most unavailable player?

There could be different categories, maybe:

Loan
1 year contract
2 year contract
3 year contract

So who are the most unavailable players we've ever signed?

 

[jt64]

Well I'll go with the obvious John Ebbrell post

 

[Deadbat]

Ryan France
Martin Dickinson

 

[Silent Blade]

Steve Paterson, signed from Man U for £60K in summer 1980. Got injured in a pre-season match and never played in a competitive game for us. This beats John Ebbrell!

He is top row 4th from left.

 

[BerksBlade]

James Wallace & Jack Rodwell must be contenders

 

[Blade In Flame]

Alan Whittle

 

[Ned the Donkey]

Steve Paterson, signed from Man U for £60K in summer 1980. Got injured in a pre-season match and never played in a competitive game for us. This beats John Ebbrell!

He is top row 4th from left.

Steven William Paterson (born 8 April 1958) is a Scottish football manager and former player.

Nicknamed "Pele", after six first team games for Manchester United, his career was curtailed due an injury in a pre-season game after transferring to Sheffield United. Despite this and problems as well as a long-term gambling and alcohol addiction, he did have a footballing career with spells in Hong Kong, Australia and Japan where in 1983 he was the first overseas player to play there.

 

[Brian Deane]

Gotta be Maradona for the sake of an extra £50k, fucking tinpot Club.

 

[Shirty Blade]

Who was that Dean Hammond bloke? Did loads of unseen work for us apparently. I never saw him!

 

[Wards]

In recent memory Charlie Goode and Harry Clarke loans were very disrupted by injury - thankfully.

Louie Barry maybe from this season. Also just shit.

 

[SwissBlade]

Who was that Dean Hammond bloke? Did loads of unseen work for us apparently. I never saw him!

Wednesday would call the unseen work the intangibles

 

[103SecondsOfMagic]

Danny Cullip looked a decent signing from Brighton but immediately got bombed out by NW, one appearance I think?
Technically not unavailable I realise!

 

[bladesmanluke]

Andy Butler

 

[Champagneblade]

Sturridge for the loan. I had some correspondence with Neil Warnock on him. Sent him a list of targets (as I did at the time!) he had a typed reply and added at the bottom “I got him” in pen!

Then did his hammy in no time and missed most of the matches!

 

[FMBlade1]

Ched Evans was unavailable for us between 2012-2017, having been our player until April 20th 2012.

That's five years, and even on his return he spent a further year on loan at Fleetwood and was mostly injured!

 

[Blade56]

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[Gin&Juice]

Ched Evans was unavailable for us between 2012-2017, having been our player until April 20th 2012.

That's five years, and even on his return he spent a further year on loan at Fleetwood and was mostly injured!

good god man