Jorge Costa as he brought a lot to the club, including the superb "Young Fish Costa Fortune" back four and the book, "From Portacabins to Porto Captain" :-)
Even though we didn't realise at the time I think Diawara was a big signing - since he returned to France I don't think he has failed to play in the Champions League
IN ORDER OF POSITIONS.... GK: Scott Carson DF: Luke Young DF: Jorge Costa DF: Mark Fish DF: Chris Powell MD: Danny Murphy MD: John Barnes (useless though) So i'd replace him with Graham Stuart MD: Claus Jensen MD: Jesper Blomsvqist FWD: Allan Simenson FWD: Jason Euell (because he was a record siging)
Of course these are the best to my memory of players that were sigings that made me say to my non-charlton supproting mates 'weve signed ..... and thier reaction being 'wow thats a good signing for you'....bearing in mind most of my non-charlton pals are Arsenal, Man U, Tottenham and Chelsea.
Of course with the place where we are with Charlton today...id say that Ricardo Fuller is a massive siging for us and other recent ones would have been BWP, Kerm, Morrison, Wiggns.
Hopefully there will be plenty more in the years to come as well where 'liilte old Charlton' get the breaking news scroll on sky sports news.
Darren Bent must class as a big name signing, he was pretty well known at the time and we took the plunge to see if he could score regularly at the highest level
Jonathan johanson, big money signing from Glasgow Rangers and Sean Bartlett, the then South African captain. Both players had an immediate impact. Actually sO did Jeffers with his debut brace...
Todorov was also a big deal as we had just fallen into the Championship where he'd scored 26 goals for Pompey when they won the First Division in 2003. He was crocked, as it happens, but if he'd not been he could have been a big player for us that season.
I think the majority of CAFC fans (although maybe not on here) would not have heard of many of our 25+ signings last season - hard therefore to earmark them a "massive"
Thinking back it was just unbelievable when we signed Simonsen.What was he thinking. Costa,Di Canio and co were more understandable as we were in the Premiership.
Simmo has to be the stand-out one. He did, after all, come from Barcelona and had been voted European footballer of year 5 years earlier (how many of those have we signed?)
I'm not sure Jorge Costa was. I don't think many people knew who he was when he signed. He soon put that right, though, starting out with that memorable press conference before his debut at Stamford Bridge where he coolly and factually answered he question about facing Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink by pointing out that JFH had never scored against him.
Bradley Allen was a big signing at the time and he was a great little player but was injury prone before he got him. Not sure he would rank as a "Past the sell by date" though.
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- since he returned to France I don't think he has failed to play in the Champions League
Scott Carson was immense for his one year with us
GK: Scott Carson
DF: Luke Young
DF: Jorge Costa
DF: Mark Fish
DF: Chris Powell
MD: Danny Murphy
MD: John Barnes (useless though) So i'd replace him with Graham Stuart
MD: Claus Jensen
MD: Jesper Blomsvqist
FWD: Allan Simenson
FWD: Jason Euell (because he was a record siging)
Of course these are the best to my memory of players that were sigings that made me say to my non-charlton supproting mates 'weve signed ..... and thier reaction being 'wow thats a good signing for you'....bearing in mind most of my non-charlton pals are Arsenal, Man U, Tottenham and Chelsea.
Of course with the place where we are with Charlton today...id say that Ricardo Fuller is a massive siging for us and other recent ones would have been BWP, Kerm, Morrison, Wiggns.
Hopefully there will be plenty more in the years to come as well where 'liilte old Charlton' get the breaking news scroll on sky sports news.
Costa,Di Canio and co were more understandable as we were in the Premiership.
I'm not sure Jorge Costa was. I don't think many people knew who he was when he signed. He soon put that right, though, starting out with that memorable press conference before his debut at Stamford Bridge where he coolly and factually answered he question about facing Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink by pointing out that JFH had never scored against him.
So he was a big name signing and he was an ok player