Signings that you were excited by at the time but disappointed you in the end

[coaxingstar71]

I never saw him play but from what I've read, Chris Guthrie would fall nicely into this category.

Probably Alan Warboys too, who arrived with a good goalscoring record.

 

[Blade56]

To flip reverse 1973Blade 's thread. Who have we signed over the years that never lived up to the hype?

I'll start with a few:

• Patrick Suffo
• Leon Britton
• Ahmed Fahti
• James Harper
• Lee Hendrie

Weeeeeerrrrzzzzzz Brewster?

 

[Maidenhead]

To be fair, both of those suffered with injuries. Young was actually decent when he played and I'll never forget the overhead kick winner he scored against Oxford.

I don't remember that

 

[wak1889]

Paul Holland, he was apparently the next Gascoigne, turns out football ability wise he was more bamber than Paul

 

[fifty shades of blade]

Paul Holland, he was apparently the next Gascoigne, turns out football ability wise he was more bamber than Paul

Jill Gasgoigne

 

[Rooks]

Vinnie Jones. 700 grand for a long throw and some clapping.

Nowhere near the enforcer he as advertised as being.

If we had not signed Vinnie Jones we would have been relegated 1990/1991 season.

 

[Mag-83]

Laurens Ten Heuvel

 

[BladeInIreland]

Howard would be the big one, remember everyone on bladesmad being hyped we had finally got our goalscoring midfielder.

Will throw a controversial one in. Sharp from Scunthorpe. Expected alot of goals from him. Instead he spent alot of time around the corner flag and seemed to be constantly offside. We didn't play to his strengths and sold him despite proving on his loan to Donny that he could score if played right. Fortunately he got another go.

 

[fifty shades of blade]

Brian Howard again for me...any player with a tan like that should be much better than he was

 

[Paisley Blade]

Alan Young and Steve Finnieston.

After those two I stopped getting excited about signings until I'd actually seen them kick a few balls for United.

Alan Young scored a winner in a game v Oxford in 1982(?). Overhead kick so he gets a pass, plus the atmosphere was amazing on the Kop with 12K in the ground.
Steve Finnieston - granted, remember being at the cricket nets on a hot August night seeing we'd signed a bloke I'd heard of, from Chelsea. What could possibly go wrong?

 

[Paisley Blade]

85/86 season, first game of season away at Stoke the old Victoria ground, just finnised work that Saturday dinnertime. Decided to go to the game we won 3-1, I know Withe got 1 possibly two that day.
Twas a bit feisty after the match, walking back to my car

I was in Rhodes, learned of the win by buying the Sunday People on the Monday morning.

How we used to live.

 

[Paisley Blade]

To be fair, both of those suffered with injuries. Young was actually decent when he played and I'll never forget the overhead kick winner he scored against Oxford.

Just saw this after I posted about the same goal

 

[TJ blade]

Oliver Burke

What a bag of shite he was

 

[Silent Blade]

Mark Morris.

I remember as a young kid being amazed we'd spent 175k on a player.

Not sure who was our record signing before that (was it Colin Hill perhaps at 85k?), but I remember it being big money for us at that time.

Sabella £160K in summer 1978

 

[103SecondsOfMagic]

Luke Beckett
Andy Butler
Geoff Horsfield.

Horsfield, I did an air punch when we signed him I was so pleased, he was lethal for Fulham! I seem to remember we were effectively forced into signing him?

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

Horsfield, I did an air punch when we signed him I was so pleased, he was lethal for Fulham! I seem to remember we were effectively forced into signing him?

Were we? How come?

 

[103SecondsOfMagic]

beat me to it! Leon wasn't great either, once he'd signed final contract, although we were prem by then I guess.

Leon??? No way man!! A player never 2 4get

 

[103SecondsOfMagic]

Were we? How come?

Something to do with Akinbiyi I think? Warnock wanted Ade and thought he had GH lined up as back up in case Ade fell through, then we somehow ended up with both!

 

[Numpty's Dusty Ruts.]

Horsfield, I did an air punch when we signed him I was so pleased, he was lethal for Fulham! I seem to remember we were effectively forced into signing him?

The wonderful Chris Morgan excepted, we don't seem to do very well with ex-Barnsley players. As mentioned, Ashley Ward, Geoff Horsfield and Brian Howard didn't exactly pull up any trees.
I still love Chris Morgan though, no fannyin' abart!!

 

[Chezzy Blades]

He might already be hiding in the thread, but Luke Freeman. Always seemed to be the best player on the pitch against us but never quite replicated it, albeit in the PL.

 

[John Street West Terrace]

85/86 season, first game of season away at Stoke the old Victoria ground, just finnised work that Saturday dinnertime. Decided to go to the game we won 3-1, I know Withe got 1 possibly two that day.
Twas a bit feisty after the match, walking back to my car

Remember that away day very well , a good few of us set off in the back of a removals van it was fkg boiling .. we got as far as the Parkway before the plod pulled us in … Jesus if we’d have made it Stoke they’d have been 70 patients in A&E with heat exhaustion !!
There was a hasty arranged coach but we ended up on a bus that stopped at every bus stop & signpost between here & Stoke !! I’ve been to the other side of the world quicker !! .. Eventually got to ground 30 mins into the game .. won 3-1 , reyt atmosphere at the Olld Victoria ground ..no fkg way were we busing it back .. ‘lively’ walk back to mini buses that we’d blagged a return on ,… great days not like all the organised shite nowadays.. different & happy times & met some great lads who are still friends to the day

 

[Revolution]

Were we? How come?

Terry Robinson’s incompetence.

 

[Basing Blade]

jimmy Johnstone

 

[103SecondsOfMagic]

The wonderful Chris Morgan excepted, we don't seem to do very well with ex-Barnsley players. As mentioned, Ashley Ward, Geoff Horsfield and Brian Howard didn't exactly pull up any trees.
I still love Chris Morgan though, no fannyin' abart!!

Danny Bogdanovic too!
Muck n nettles Morgs made up for all of them

 

[Maurice Maurice]

Nick Montgomery and Anna Karen, that bird who played Olive in On the Buses...

 

[Revolution]

If we had not signed Vinnie Jones we would have been relegated 1990/1991 season.

Well you were a lot closer to it than I was, though that’s not how it looked from the kop. If you’d said the same about Glyn Hodges I’d agree 100 per cent.

Mind you, Jones missed 4 games after we signed him. We won all 4, including the 7-2 v Oldham and 4-1 v Southampton. I always thought this was telling.

 

[FinchleyBlade]

Paul Ifill - he was ok for us but not the player I'd been seeing for the previous few years

He got 9 goals and 9 assists in his first season with us from right wing.

 

[shorehamview]

Sabella £160K in summer 1978

Signed because the board had agreed to sign a different player for £200,000, but the military junta put the price up by another £150,000. Harry Haslam thought this was too much, and so we didn’t sign the 17 year old Diego Maradona.

 

[Keen Blade]

Bit weird to see Austen Trusty & Cameron Carter-Vickers forming the CB partnership for Celtic in the Champions League tonight !

I just dunno how Trusty can be a CL player , thought he was useless in PL for us , no strength in him.
Thought he'd be a great LCB to replace Robbo but what went wrong ?
And what did Celtic see or do that we couldn't ?

Always liked CCV though , tough cookie

 

[Silent Blade]

Well you were a lot closer to it than I was, though that’s not how it looked from the kop. If you’d said the same about Glyn Hodges I’d agree 100 per cent.

Mind you, Jones missed 4 games after we signed him. We won all 4, including the 7-2 v Oldham and 4-1 v Southampton. I always thought this was telling.

Yes, Glyn Hodges was the signing that turned our season also Tracey's return from injury before Xmas was a boost. In Vinnie's book he said some things to belittle the club and was full of himself. I cant stand him!