'Memries' Shock signings

[DifferentClass]

What are the signings you remember coming out of leftfield?

Before Kalvin Phillips Mee and Ings, and then Bamford, took me by surprise- "before" being the operative here! I think Phillips might be the biggest "shock" signing of my lifetime, or at least as far back as I can remember (Deano second time round I don't remember too well)!

Honourable mention to Ched second time round and Madine.

 

[Silent Blade]

Terry Curran. I wasnt against the signing. Just that I was baffled that Wendy's best player came to us and asked if we would be interested in signing him even though we were a division below,.

 

[Hanauer]

Terry Curran. I wasnt against the signing. Just that I was baffled that Wendy's best player came to us and asked if we would be interested in signing him.

Big mates with Dane who put a word in for him. Pigs totally humiliated.

 

[Silent Blade]

Big mates with Dane who put a word in for him. Pigs totally humiliated.

Dane?

 

[ben1987]

Sander Berge.

Hot prospect in Europe. Complimented by Klopp and Man United fans on social media confusing a teenage goalkeeper with him and being genuinely disappointed to find out it wasn’t him.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

This Nigerian fella and a Peruvian chap.

What became of them

 

[Red Hot Currie]

One maybe for the slightly older Blades, but I remember being amazed and delighted when we signed Glen Cockerillin the early 80s. We were in Div 3 and we paid over £100k I think to get him from Lincoln where he was doing really well for them. He was a great player for us and when he was inevitably sold (to Southampton?) he went on to have a good career in the top flight.

 

[Red Hot Currie]

*Cockerill in.... not Cockerillin (don't remember him)

 

[Blade In Flame]

Alan Whittle.

 

[SiamBlade]

Seeing the Vinnie Jones transfer from Leeds in ‘91 on Look North was a surprise

 

[Silent Blade]

Alan Whittle.

We didnt sign him, failed his medical despite that he appeared in the squad photo.

 

[Gin&Juice]

Jon Harley on loan.

 

[DifferentClass]

Seeing the Vinnie Jones transfer from Leeds in ‘91 on Look North was a surprise

Times that mek you wish View From were around then!

 

[Blade In Flame]

We didnt sign him, failed his medical despite that he appeared in the squad photo.
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Yeah, I know. Still a shock when we signed him though, or at least when it was announced.

Ok then, I'll go with Jim Bone and Ian Rush.

 

[JohnDenver]

Madine was a shock to me. But Wilder’s stock was high enough to make it work.

 

[Gin&Juice]

Spending big munneh on Donald Budweiser Hutchinson was a bit of a shock

 

[JohnDenver]

Spending big munneh on Donald Budweiser Hutchinson was a bit of a shock

There’s a player everyone seemed to like, but in my eyes he contributed f-all.

 

[Carlton Blade]

There’s a player everyone seemed to like, but in my eyes he contributed f-all.

He was obviously talented but ultimately, based on his revelations as he aged, drunk

 

[I should coco]

Curran Pig and serial misogynist Marlon King.

Curran was chief pig and a complete wanker, but as far as I know, he didn't beat up women in nightclubs, cause an accident putting people in hospital, handle stolen cars or any of the other shit, that King did.

 

[JohnDenver]

He was obviously talented but ultimately, based on his revelations as he aged, drunk

I thought he took the mick out of us. Dropped a league and thought he didn’t need to try. Did better at Everton back in the prem after he left.

And yeah, the booze. No welcome back from me.

 

[Bell4]

Terry Curran. I wasnt against the signing. Just that I was baffled that Wendy's best player came to us and asked if we would be interested in signing him even though we were a division below,.

Yes

In my 55 years of attending games , then this is the biggest shock .

 

[jim2007]

Peter Withe, Dennis Mortimer and Phil Thompson were not what we were expecting at the time.

 

[3Cheers4Ramirez]

James Beattie was well out of line with what we were long accustomed to at the time. And unnecessary too

 

[sitwell]

Ian Rush, Peter Withe, Dennis Mortimer and Phil Thompson were not what we were expecting at the time.

 

[BlairBlade]

I thought he took the mick out of us. Dropped a league and thought he didn’t need to try. Did better at Everton back in the prem after he left.

And yeah, the booze. No welcome back from me.

I think he was probably the thinnest first team player we’ve ever had.

 

[Cheets]

Seeing the Vinnie Jones transfer from Leeds in ‘91 on Look North was a surprise

1990.

 

[Cheets]

Big mates with Dane who put a word in for him. Pigs totally humiliated.

Dane Whitehouse would have been 12 when we signed Curran, unless I'm having a whoosh moment.

 

[Eels]

Alex Sabella

 

[Brian Deane]

Peter Withe, Dennis Mortimer and Phil Thompson were not what we were expecting at the time.

 

[Silent Blade]

Dane Whitehouse would have been 12 when we signed Curran, unless I'm having a whoosh moment.

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