screech Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Just reading on the Beeb site about Liverpool striker Andy Carroll's supposedly attracting a West Ham bid of £15m. First of all I don't believe West Ham have anywhere near £10m to spend on one player let alone £15, and everybody knows at £15m Carroll is still about £5m overpriced. So, It got me thinking, we are usually dreadful in the transfer market, and always seem to get the worst value from most deals, so who would you class as City's most expensive striker flop? Recent times I would go for David Clarkson, at £800k for a slow, crap striker it summed up just how bad Gary Johnson was at signing strikers. A little further back and Steve Jones at £500k takes the title, a bigger tart you will not find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
del ete Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Peter styvar, although wasnt he eventually uncovered as a left back who played one game upfront when we scouted him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberporthbcfc Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 David James regardless of no fee. wages, sign on fee were bad enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRL Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Ray Atteveld, for £250k I think it was at the time. Bad Injury, didn't figure, on big wages, Osman eventually paid a youth teamer to keep hacking him down, to provoke a reaction, so we could remove him from his contract. He could have turned out to be decent! But we will never know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberporthbcfc Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 or nicky hunt actually.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stortfordred Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 or nicky hunt actually.... Let's be fair, over the years we've been conned by loads of stunning Hunts!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Trundle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelsBCFC Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Tony Thorpe and Marcus Stewart ...enough said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petehinton Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Styvar hands down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esmond Million's Bung Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Hugh Mclmoyle, Rambo Johnson, Ian Baird, Bobby Gould, Liam Robinson, Tony Caldwell, David Seal and Scott Partridge off the top of my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRL Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Hugh Mclmoyle, Rambo Johnson, Ian Baird, Bobby Gould, Liam Robinson, Tony Caldwell, David Seal and Scott Partridge off the top of my head. Poor old Seal. Banging in for fun from 20-30 yards, at ludicrous angles, Then Jordan in his wisdom says.... Seal, you ain't scoring from 5 or 6 yards out, he gets dropped, and the season nose dives as none of his replacements can score! Kind of summed up Jordan's second spell in charge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kibs Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Who was that poor bar steward who came down from Rangers, played about 10 minutes, got seriously injured and we had to pay his wages for the entire season?!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oops Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Who was that poor bar steward who came down from Rangers, played about 10 minutes, got seriously injured and we had to pay his wages for the entire season?!! Velicka. A legend in his village, apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kibs Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Velicka. A legend in his village, apparently. That's the dancer!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greedo Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Partrige or Stvar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Humble Realist Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Tony Thorpe and Marcus Stewart ...enough said Stewart faiir enuf but thorpe? If u luk at his goal record I dnt think u can call him a 'flop' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRL Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Stewart faiir enuf but thorpe? If u luk at his goal record I dnt think u can call him a 'flop' Thorpe was a lot of money for his return to be fair. A pretty good striker, but people seem to remember him as some 20 league goal a season striker, I don't believe he once hit 20 league goals for us. For the outlay, i think we could have got better, especially considering the division we were in when he actually played. Not a bad player, but massively overated, and a huge transfer fee for us at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Ferret Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Tony Thorpe and Marcus Stewart ...enough said Not "enough said" at all. Thorpe scored loads of goals for us. You will have to explain your reasons why you think he was bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveF Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Tony Thorpe and Marcus Stewart ...enough said Tony Thorpe?! That has to be the worst shout ever! The guy averaged a goal every other game... 102 starts 51 goals according to soccerbase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Who was that poor bar steward who came down from Rangers, played about 10 minutes, got seriously injured and we had to pay his wages for the entire season?!! To be fair BCFC probably didn't pay his wages assuming the club had a suitable insurance policy. If it didnt then lesson learnt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swede Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Trundle You're having a giraffe! His goals at the end of that season got us to Wembley which amply repaid the fee we had to pay Swansea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRL Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 To be fair BCFC probably didn't pay his wages assuming the club had a suitable insurance policy. If it didnt then lesson learnt. Well fingers crossed we had an insurance policy, because we were liable for his wages and medical care for the entirety of the loan! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swede Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Tony Thorpe and Marcus Stewart ...enough said FFS! What is the matter with some people? Tony Thorpe was a VERY intelligent footballer. His signing was so understated such was the £1M media frenzy surrounding the signing of Akinbyi, but whereas Akinbyi frequently was caught offside and needed seemingly several chances before scoring, Thorpe was rarely caught offside and scored with fewer chances. Even at the end of his career Stewart was still making intelligent runs, his problem was his team mates weren't as gifted as him. Witness the season opener against Donny where Stewart and Bridges oozed class for 30 minutes with their interplay and sharpness but requiring quick passes and ball to feet was beyond the capabilities of the rest of their team mates. But for that brief moment you could clearly see what might have been. Enough said . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Lewis Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 Hugh Mclmoyle, Rambo Johnson, Ian Baird, Bobby Gould, Liam Robinson, Tony Caldwell, David Seal and Scott Partridge off the top of my head. I can't agree with these two being flops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebrenn Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 How many players have come to us with good reputations,and we turned them into flops? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esmond Million's Bung Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 I can't agree with these two being flops. I think you might be suffering with old timers disease mate. Mcilmoyle came to us as probably the most prolific striker in the lower leagues, I can remember thinking at last a striker worthy of replacing Big John Atyeo. in reality he came with an attitude problem, was lazy and never really tried to make it work here in short he didn't want to be with us in around a season and a half he scored just 4 goals in 20 games, I was glad to see the back of him. Bobby Gould I agree could never be classed as a flop, 15 goals in 35 games prove that. My problem was he was hugely unpopular not only with the fans he was not over popular with the squad, he was arrogant and argumentative, I clearly remember Gerry Gow chinning Gould during a game, it was the best move of the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityhead Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 FFS! What is the matter with some people? Tony Thorpe was a VERY intelligent footballer. His signing was so understated such was the £1M media frenzy surrounding the signing of Akinbyi, but whereas Akinbyi frequently was caught offside and needed seemingly several chances before scoring, Thorpe was rarely caught offside and scored with fewer chances. Even at the end of his career Stewart was still making intelligent runs, his problem was his team mates weren't as gifted as him. Witness the season opener against Donny where Stewart and Bridges oozed class for 30 minutes with their interplay and sharpness but requiring quick passes and ball to feet was beyond the capabilities of the rest of their team mates. But for that brief moment you could clearly see what might have been. Enough said . Have to agree with Angels. If thorpe was such a good player why would he never head the ball - frightended of damaging a few brain cells I suspect. Couldn't score penalties and the number of times I saw him fail to beat the goalie one on one in fronte of the Atyeo was enormous. Granted Stewart against donny was good but that was a huge outlay for 30 mins of decent effort - the rest of the time him and bridges were absent. Enough said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Brent Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 Michael Bridges came with a big reputation, yes he was unlucky with injuries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busterrimes Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 Partrige or Stvar Scott Partridge was a free transfer so technically couldn't be classed as a high value flop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 Tony Thorpe thats a shocking call he was a great goal scorer when given the chance (which he didn't get in Div 1 cus of Akinbiye) I'd say ~Ian Baird Carl ******* hutching (God I hated him) Mark Lever (the girmsby player) Bridges Partridge Steve Jones (Pre Loan spell away) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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