Worst Football player signed by your club

[The Future]

Who in your opinion are some of the worst football players to be signed by the club you support? I support Manchester United and would have to say the following:

Massimo Taibi: I was very very young when he signed, I didn't understand football much but I remember Chelsea smashing 5 past him and his howlers against Liverpool and Southampton.

Kleberson: My Dad used to rave about him a lot and used to go on about how he oozed class, he only managed like 15 appearances in 3 seasons, a big disappointment considering how he was supposed to be Roy Keane's replacement.

Juan Sebastian Veron: He had some good performances but he was purchased for a record breaking transfer fee and didn't live up to the hype.

[stokeriño]

Chris Sutton always sticks out in my mind because spending £10 million on a striker (before we had any money) for him to only score ONE GOAL in 28 appearances is just fucking diabolical.

There are no doubt more terrible players, but perhaps my memory has obscured them.

[therockbox]

Salif Diao. Fuck knows what Ged was thinking.

There are no doubt more terrible players, but perhaps my memory has obscured them.

Would Winston Bogarde really count as a footballer?

Edited November 18, 2008 by therockbox

[IAceI]

I love Taibi. He was awesome before he came to Man Utd, shit at Man Utd and then left and started being awesome again.

Legend.

We have quite a few poor signings to be fair, but we pass them off as 'adding depth to the squad' and try and forget about them as anything major.

Edited November 18, 2008 by IAceI

[Matt]

... Take your pick from here.

Zoumana Camara, Roque Junior, Michael Duberry, Didier Domi, Seth Johnson (partly because of the inflated fee and ridiculous wages - there's an amusing story about that actually), Jody Morris, Saloman Olembe, Cyril Chapuis... Lamine Sakho is missing for some reason.

Then there's the likes of Armando Sa, Seb Sorsa, Filipe da Costa (although I stand by the fact he'd have been the shit if he'd have been given a chance), Alan Wright, and probably one or two more from our CCC relegation season.

[stokeriño]

There are no doubt more terrible players, but perhaps my memory has obscured them.

Would Winston Bogarde really count as a footballer?

More a living, breathing financial black hole, I'd say.

[The Future]

Who was the player that lied to a manager that he was an international for Senegal and a cousin of George Weah? I think he played at Leeds.

[therockbox]

Ali Dia at Southampton. And he wasn't even Souness' biggest bollock up as a manger, which is saying something.

Edited November 18, 2008 by therockbox

[The Future]

Skimming through Rio Ferdinand's book and he mentions Marco Boogers who went on to live in a caravan. Apparently in his first training session for West Ham he raped the defenders with some awesome tricks.

[Summers]

Bosko Balaban.

[Anderson]

Diego Forlan

Kleberson

Eric Djemba-Djemba

Massimo Taibi

David Bellion

Juan Sebastian Veron

Take your pick

[Crybaby Bunting]

And because being a black man who was a complete waste of money and played for Newcastle doesn't really disclose THAT much

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It's Titus Bramble

Edited November 18, 2008 by The General

[IAceI]

There's going to be plenty worse signings Newcastle have made over the years than Titus Bramble. I mean, Bramble did score on the weekend in the Premiership. Sure, he's abysmal but.. he's still there.

For example - I give to Newcastle the man affectionately known (for 7 games) as... SPARROWHAWK

[Crybaby Bunting]

He was the first name that came to mind without the urge to kill myself.

Asprilla, Boumsong and pretty much every player signed to replace the 1996 squad and thereafter.

[TheRossWalker]

Marcelinho

Carl Cort

Hugo Viana (actually decent now, but he was a colossal waste of money for Newcastle)

Titus Bramble, as mentioned above.

Albert Luque

Jean-Alain Boumsong

Stephen Carr

...fuck it, I can't go on, there's too many.

[IAceI]

Of the £5m spent (I think) on Marcelinho.. how much of that was sheerly for the fact the Premiership really needed a human/giraffe crossbreed? I mean.. you don't see many of those necks around these days do you?

[METALMAN]

Eric Joly, Michael Jeffrey, Stevie Fulton, Michel Ngonge, Francois Dubourdeau. I can't imagine these names mean much to most people.

[IAceI]

Tore Andre Flo was a pretty poor signing for us who was a 'name' who obviously did nothing.

Obscure players could be; Carsten Fredgaard. Who was the next Laudrup apparently.. or not as it seemingly turned out.

Oh and any Liverpool fan who comes in here and doesn't say Sean Dundee loses. I mean, he claimed he was as fast as Michael Owen (back when Owen was able bodied). Sean Dundee was a hangman legend by the time I finished school between my friends and me.

[Johnny Latino Heat]

http://flopsdobenfica.blogspot.com/

It's a Portuguese site, but it has an extensive list of flops that passed through Benfica. I agree with every single one of this list.

[stokeriño]

Oh, another one: Gabriele Ambrosetti. 'The Italian Ryan Giggs'.

lol, no.