Humble Pie Transfers

[Gazza]

This thread is about the player that you were desperate for the club to sign but slipped away. In your mind this was the player that could have made the difference and has gone on to prove that you know nothing about football.

Or players that you were desperate for to join the club and were smitten once they signed on the dotted line, only for it to go tits up.

 

[SamC10]

I remember being very keen on Ben Arfa before he joined Saudi Sportswashing Machine....

Was also so happy when we signed Bentley.

 

[tw12yid]

Bale...turned out to be a terrible left back... Couldn't even get in ahead of BAE.

 

[Jordinho]

Nothing comes to mind.

I do have a long list of names where I got it right though.

 

[billyiddo]

I generally expect all our signings to do well, regardless of who they are - so there's many I've got wrong!

Called Bentley flopping though

 

[Gazza]

I was gutted that we didnt buy Charlie Adam before going to pool.

Very excited about Soldado

 

[Rorschach]

Yep Soldado. Was sure he would be a success here.

Was desperate for us to get Depay. Early days I know but he's not the player I thought he was, from what I have seen so far anyway.

 

[billyiddo]

Who was it that said they was going to give up supporting Spurs if we didn't sign Arshavin??

 

[Vega]

Jason Dozzell - magic at Ipswich, dreadful for us

 

[Gazza]

Jason Dozzell - magic at Ipswich, dreadful for us

I wanted Chris Kiwomya and Dozzell as well

 

[LutonSpurs]

Soldado

 

[AdamB]

Going way back, I remember being disappointed when we signed Teddy in 1992 and Robert Fleck went to Chelsea that same summer. We were meant to be after Fleck and I thought we got worst of the two....

 

[Superted]

I thought we had a gem in Vlad Chich

 

[scaramanga]

Yep Soldado. Was sure he would be a success here.

Was desperate for us to get Depay. Early days I know but he's not the player I thought he was, from what I have seen so far anyway.

I still think we'll come right on Depay.

Agree about Soldado too.

 

[Vega]

Postiga - the next big thing in Portugese football and a potential world class striker

 

[SUIYHA]

This guy is a GG legend. Completely flopped in the Premier League

 

[Papercut]

From a youth aspect, Bostock was a disappointment.

 

[K.D.D.D.D.Soc]

I thought Gordon Durie was going to be good for us and very disappointed when we didn't get Le Tiss

 

[DubaiSpur]

Chris Samba.

 

[Gutter Boy]

Bergkamp and Petit are the two that missing out on set us on a very different path.