RoystonFoote'snephew Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 It's coming up to the end of the season and I was musing about the summer and friendlies while thumbing through past community match programmes when some familiar but not so familiar names got me thinking again about poor signings. Every team ofcourse has made poor signings, and we're certainly no exception, but the 2016/17 programme for our match with Bristol Manor Farm contained a City squad with no less than 3 players that we'd signed (not loaned) who were never to wear a 1st team shirt in a competitive fixture, namely Tin Plavotic (now with Austria Wien in the Austrian Bundesliga), Paul-Arnold Garita (now with Al-Faisaly in the Saudi 1st Division) and Diego de Girolamo (now with Buxton in National League North). None of these players were blighted by injury just (presumably) deemed not good enough. I wonder how many other signings, not loans, there have been. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveInSA Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 I think we should raid the lower leagues for players with ace names. Those three are brilliant. Might not be any good at footy. But does wonders for team sheet diversity. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dolman Pragmatist Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 Murray Jones, promising striker signed from Palace in 1990. Never made an appearance. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welcome To The Jungle Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 We signed two Irish lads in Coppels summer who were suggested by the same agent who represented the Hunt brothers and Shane Long for Coppel whilst he was at Reading Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 4 hours ago, RoystonFoote'snephew said: It's coming up to the end of the season and I was musing about the summer and friendlies while thumbing through past community match programmes when some familiar but not so familiar names got me thinking again about poor signings. Every team ofcourse has made poor signings, and we're certainly no exception, but the 2016/17 programme for our match with Bristol Manor Farm contained a City squad with no less than 3 players that we'd signed (not loaned) who were never to wear a 1st team shirt in a competitive fixture, namely Tin Plavotic (now with Austria Wien in the Austrian Bundesliga), Paul-Arnold Garita (now with Al-Faisaly in the Saudi 1st Division) and Diego de Girolamo (now with Buxton in National League North). None of these players were blighted by injury just (presumably) deemed not good enough. I wonder how many other signings, not loans, there have been. The Austrian Bundesliga is not a bad standard, Uefa ranks it 10th in Europe, just below the SPL. but Plavotic has only played one game there and seems to have spent most of his career in the Austrian 2nd tier - not a good standard. I think it's as well Tin got canned here. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Dante Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 1 hour ago, Welcome To The Jungle said: We signed two Irish lads in Coppels summer who were suggested by the same agent who represented the Hunt brothers and Shane Long for Coppel whilst he was at Reading That would be Patrick Hoban and Jimmy Kehone. Both have made semi decent lower level/Irish league careers overall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AG City Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 Jehad Muntasser - signed from Arsenal reserves in Jan 1998 as an attacking midfielder/striker but released a year later having never played a game. Another from Arsenal was Jordan Wynter, made a couple of appearances then never seen again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oh Louie louie Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 I can recall the evening post reporting we had a kid on trial who had made the bench for Liverpool in the European cup, David west, sounded exciting, went on to play half a season for Torquay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Colby-Tit Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 Didn't we sign a young lad from Liverpool, on loan, a few years back and never played him? Danny something possibly? My memory is shot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnr1986 Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 29 minutes ago, Sir Colby-Tit said: Didn't we sign a young lad from Liverpool, on loan, a few years back and never played him? Danny something possibly? My memory is shot! Danny Wilson? CB Liverpool signed from rangers and never made it there . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Colby-Tit Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 2 minutes ago, Johnr1986 said: Danny Wilson? CB Liverpool signed from rangers and never made it there . That's the kiddy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pride of the west Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 I remember a Portuguese striker. Must have been 19. We had him on a weird trial and he played a few games and scored away at Bury I think. Went to play for Portugal under 19s or whatever it was at a summer tournament that year, got player of the tournament and for whatever reason we didn't sign him and he didn't do a lot after. During the Wilson era I think. Cant remember his name at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 Remember Andre Blackman? Signed from Portsmouth academy and did this RB interview where he said he was "fast, strong, with good vision" played one League Cup game looked none of those things, then we had to sack him off for being a wannabe gangster. Had umpteen unsuccessful trials at various clubs - more trials than Joseph Barton - and then played in Scotland before dropping to non-league in his late 20s. Now at Dulwich Hamlet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AG City Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 (edited) It was Lorurenco Dasilva 45 minutes ago, pride of the west said: I remember a Portuguese striker. Must have been 19. We had him on a weird trial and he played a few games and scored away at Bury I think. Went to play for Portugal under 19s or whatever it was at a summer tournament that year, got player of the tournament and for whatever reason we didn't sign him and he didn't do a lot after. During the Wilson era I think. Cant remember his name at all That was Lourenco Dasilva Edited April 24 by AG City 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transfer reader Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 7 hours ago, DaveInSA said: I think we should raid the lower leagues for players with ace names. Those three are brilliant. Might not be any good at footy. But does wonders for team sheet diversity. In the Southern league there is a player called Ace High. 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Dante Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 If ever a thread was made for @Lorenzos Only Goal… 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorenzos Only Goal Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 1 hour ago, Silvio Dante said: If ever a thread was made for @Lorenzos Only Goal… Hay my other goals didn't get a chance, but my hair is amazing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Red Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 Sammie Szmodics... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 1 hour ago, Northern Red said: Sammie Szmodics... Whatever happened to him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oh Louie louie Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 Tony pulis quote marcus browning could be the man to turn our season around. Latham wrote Marcus appears to be struggling for form fitness and game time, yes 15 stone in weight playing for Bournemouth reserves! That would have been the mother of false dawn's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murraysrightplum Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 I once new a girl called False Dawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorenzos Only Goal Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 36 minutes ago, Murraysrightplum said: I once new a girl called False Dawn Was she just very good at doing impressions of the real dawn? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogue malone Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 10 minutes ago, Lorenzos Only Goal said: Was she just very good at doing impressions of the real dawn? Mmm the " crack of Dawn " great place to start the day, especially if you want to make her sing 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SecretSam Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 17 hours ago, Welcome To The Jungle said: We signed two Irish lads in Coppels summer who were suggested by the same agent who represented the Hunt brothers and Shane Long for Coppel whilst he was at Reading One of them went on to have a decent career, including a long stint at Exeter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexukhc Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 1 hour ago, Oh Louie louie said: Tony pulis quote marcus browning could be the man to turn our season around. Latham wrote Marcus appears to be struggling for form fitness and game time, yes 15 stone in weight playing for Bournemouth reserves! That would have been the mother of false dawn's. He didn’t join though did he? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo88 Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 When City signed Evander Sno I thought it was an amazing coup as he had been superb for Ajax against City in a friendly a couple of months before. He was better than the others mentioned in this thread but was a big disappointment. A bit like JET - on his day a world beater, on other days a panel beater 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jambodinho Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 There was a load of them during the Lee Johnson/Mark Ashton years. They were allowed to sign more players than any managers before and any managers since. Add Jack Challis, Kodi Lyons Foster, Shabazz Omofe, Denis Begovic, Ivan Lucic, Freddie Hinds, Gustav Engvall, Rory Holden, Hakeeb Adelukan, Mo Eisa, and Jonny Smith to the list of pointless signings. If they’d put that money towards one or 2 decent signings then the 1st team may have actually improved a bit. Some might say they were low risk gambles that could have paid off big time but half of them aren’t even in the professional game anymore despite still being in their 20’s. Fingers crossed Adam Murphy and Josh Stokes aren’t more names to add to the list. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calculus Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 20 hours ago, DaveInSA said: I think we should raid the lower leagues for players with ace names. Those three are brilliant. Might not be any good at footy. But does wonders for team sheet diversity. I don't that we'll ever sign better name than Ion Tistemetanu. That summer we also got Vilmos Sebok and Bo Anderson, a goalkeeper who was supposed to be the next Peter Schmichael. All looked to be exciting signings for what turned out to be a terrible season. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gasbuster Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 25 minutes ago, pongo88 said: When City signed Evander Sno I thought it was an amazing coup as he had been superb for Ajax against City in a friendly a couple of months before. He was better than the others mentioned in this thread but was a big disappointment. A bit like JET - on his day a world beater, on other days a panel beater We never got the best out of him because GJ kept playing him on the wing. The guy was an attacking midfielder; and if played there regularly would have been a success IMO. IIRC correctly; LJ was getting game time in midfield, and meant others playing out of position 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 Remember when we signed Marcus Stewart and Michael Bridges and were going to win the league by Christmas............................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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