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Worst five signings since we got back to The Valley
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Katrien MeireKarl RobinsonBob PeetersAlan PardewKeith Peacock1
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KP??? You for real? The man is as much Charlton as they come. A legend.NapaAddick said:Katrien MeireKarl RobinsonBob PeetersAlan PardewKeith Peacock12 -
Keith Peacock?0
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How has nobody included the likes of Emanuel Frimpong or Tresor Kandol in this list - both truly awful.
On a related note, I still have a chuckle to myself when I think of Francois Coquelin went from being on loan with us, to the UCL latter stages in about three and a half weeks!0 -
Whoops, that will teach me to research/post by cell phone. I was trying to look up who ran finances at the club, figuring whoever that is, is completely useless. In a listing of club staff, Keith's name and title is next to that finance person. Did not mean to tease the Club Ambassador.Chizz said:Keith Peacock?
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Martin Cranie and Danny Seabourne should be on this list0
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Bloody hell. I know you're reasonably new to this but if you don't know who KP is you might as well not bother.NapaAddick said:
Whoops, that will teach me to research/post by cell phone. I was trying to look up who ran finances at the club, figuring whoever that is, is completely useless. In a listing of club staff, Keith's name and title is next to that finance person. Did not mean to tease the Club Ambassador.Chizz said:Keith Peacock?8 -
Recently it has to be Kackack.
And Palace wanted £1m for him.
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I thought you ran the finances at the club?NapaAddick said:
Whoops, that will teach me to research/post by cell phone. I was trying to look up who ran finances at the club, figuring whoever that is, is completely useless. In a listing of club staff, Keith's name and title is next to that finance person. Did not mean to tease the Club Ambassador.Chizz said:Keith Peacock?9 -
Borrowdale.0
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Our all time worst signing....in my opinion.
Was the awful goal keeper who Chris Powell was told to put in the starting 11...by our owner.
Forgot his name but he couldn't catch a football. Catching a football is mostly at least a minimal requirement for a professional goal keeper.
Didn't he also refuse to travel to Leeds as he thought he was too good for the bench?
Nothing against him personally. I know most of the blame regarding that particular situation lies 100% on Roland's shoulders.
The player probably got told a load of fibs.
Our 2nd worse signing is the giant bag of Belgium standard Liege Reserves. Too many names to remember.
Probably Earned the equivalent of £600 a week ...while playing for a club in the championship...because our owner knows best and is a twat and believes he is smart and can cut corners.
Most of our bad signings are just due to the moronic selfish narrow minded behaviour of Roland Duchatelet.6 -
This was a very dark day in our recent history. Considering what we paid and what we thought we were getting, these two are hard to beat.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/charlton_athletic/5257776.stm
"We're delighted to have made two quality signings, and they will both improve our first team squad," said Charlton coach Iain Dowie."
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Darren Bent
Mark Kinsella
Clive Mendonca
Dean Kiely
Lyle Taylor
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I thought we were getting 2 crap players. Turns out they were worse.Off_it said:This was a very dark day in our recent history. Considering what we paid and what we thought we were getting, these two are hard to beat.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/charlton_athletic/5257776.stm
"We're delighted to have made two quality signings, and they will both improve our first team squad," said Charlton coach Iain Dowie."
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Limiting this list to only 5 is difficult. I’m surprised to see only a couple of you have named anybody from the Dooshitalot era!
For what its worth, my worst 5 are-
Djimi Traore
Amdy Faye
George Tucudean
Yohann Thuram
El-Hadji Ba
5 who didn’t live up to expectations:-
Jimmy Hassellwank
Neil Redfearn
Dennis Rommedhal
Danny Murphy
Izale McLeod
5 who were simply WTF???
Christophe LePoint
Zakarya Bergdich
Emmanuel Frimpong
Leon Clarke
Yaya Sonogo
See, I said it was difficult to only pick 5!1 -
McClown
Pouso
Ba
Novak
Ajose
im leaving out some of the obvious Roland era numpties like Thuram. We signed the above before things went nuts with the exception of Ajose who I think is an utter chancer.
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You do realise that most of the comments the first three pages on this thread are 10 years old, don't you?ParkinsonOut said:Limiting this list to only 5 is difficult. I’m surprised to see only a couple of you have named anybody from the Dooshitalot era!
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No, I just run the hot water in the stadium.Bolderhumphreyreid said:
I thought you ran the finances at the club?NapaAddick said:
Whoops, that will teach me to research/post by cell phone. I was trying to look up who ran finances at the club, figuring whoever that is, is completely useless. In a listing of club staff, Keith's name and title is next to that finance person. Did not mean to tease the Club Ambassador.Chizz said:Keith Peacock?
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Not seen the name Tom Hovi anywhere unless I missed it.
Going back a bit, and possibly a bit unfair as he was a decent player really but past it by the time he came to us, Maurice Setters.0 -
LenGlover said:Not seen the name Tom Hovi anywhere unless I missed it.
Going back a bit, and possibly a bit unfair as he was a decent player really but past it by the time he came to us, Maurice Setters.Worst five signings since we got back to The Valley
Unless its meant to be post Catford Mount2 -
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Picking 5 who were the most disappointing/biggest wastes of money is really hard. Could have included Andy Jones, Andy Gray, Amdy Faye, Simon Walton, Nicky Ajose...
Francis Jeffers
Marcus Bent
Djimi Traoré
Luke Varney
El Hadji Ba
Other players were worse, but I had lower expectations (e.g. Tom Hovi or the likes of Mooney, Akpo Sodje, Church etc)
To be fair to the Roland era players, many of them were never given a chance to settle. He's a cult hero now, but before this season Naby Sarr would have been in my top 5 as well, considering his fee and wages.
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Way many too to mention ,we've had some shockers down the years, could be a top 50!0
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Douchebag
Meire the liar
Dowie
Yohann Thuram
Karel Fraeye1 -
Ruined my 15th birthday if I recall correctly. 3-1 at home to Derby in January 1995, lost 4-3, mainly thanks to him. Then rubbed salt in the wounds by appearing in Champions League and UEFA Cup matches for Valeranga on a regular basis.LenGlover said:Not seen the name Tom Hovi anywhere unless I missed it.
I'd still pick him over RoJo, Christophe LePoint and all of the other numpties that Roland's foisted on us though.0 -
I'm not quite old enough for that.....SE7toSG3 said:LenGlover said:Not seen the name Tom Hovi anywhere unless I missed it.
Going back a bit, and possibly a bit unfair as he was a decent player really but past it by the time he came to us, Maurice Setters.Worst five signings since we got back to The Valley
Unless its meant to be post Catford Mount0 -
Cristian Ceballos (Provided absolutely nothing and took the worst corner football has ever seen, vs Derby I believe)
Simon Makienok (Probably one of the tallest to ever play for Charlton and couldn't win a header for shit)
Rhys Williams (Rewatched the Hull 6-0 highlights, never seen a defender give so much space)
El Hadji-Ba (Offered nothing, a regular in League 2 for Lens, haven't a clue how)
Yohann Thuram (The first of 5 years worth of mistakes under the reign of Duchatelet)
Sidenote, I became a Charlton fan halfway through the 2013-2014 season, aka right when Roland took over. Shocked I haven't smashed my head against a brick wall yet3 -
Makienok should be nowhere near this list.6
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Can’t argue with this.LenGlover said:Hard to pick just 5 really.
1. Bent M
2. Gray
3. Traore
4. Redfearn
5. Varney L
I've based my selection on end product against expectation for the money paid. There are a number of others but these are the five that came to mind.0 -
Re Rowett, I never knew that. I still think it was a bad decision to take a chance with him because while he was obviously a good player he’d had a bad knee injury that was just waiting to happen again.Henry Irving said:[cite]Posted By: ColinTat[/cite]
2) Bjorklund, that sort of wages for that sort of crock
Who?[cite]Posted By: ColinTat[/cite]
3) Rowett, inexcusable to pay Leicester the same fee for him, after he turned us down and then proved himself to be a crock on a big contract.
We didn't. Total fee would have been £3.5m but that was dependent on games. Paid under 500k in the end as he never played.
The fact that Leicester were showing the full £3.5m in their books as a creditor was one of the factors that sent them in Administration.1 -
Luke Varney has a golden pass as he scored winning goals against Palace.AddicksAddict said:
Can’t argue with this.LenGlover said:Hard to pick just 5 really.
1. Bent M
2. Gray
3. Traore
4. Redfearn
5. Varney L
I've based my selection on end product against expectation for the money paid. There are a number of others but these are the five that came to mind.
Same for Rommedahl, Todorov and Kitson.9
