Didn't Andy Gray have some pretty serious off the field things he was dealing with whilst he was with us? Remember him scoring a brace for Burnley at The Valley in I think the season before he signed?
Whenever I think of shit overpriced signings I think of Madjid "Magic" Boughera. Wiki says we paid 2.5m for him, but amazingly Rangers stumped up the same to take him off our hands!
Didn't Andy Gray have some pretty serious off the field things he was dealing with whilst he was with us? Remember him scoring a brace for Burnley at The Valley in I think the season before he signed?
He did.
It didn't work out and so was a waste of money from our point of view, but think his wife was seriously ill I think so it was understandable.
Whenever I think of shit overpriced signings I think of Madjid "Magic" Boughera. Wiki says we paid 2.5m for him, but amazingly Rangers stumped up the same to take him off our hands!
Still remember meeting Alan Pardew outside the Valley, the day Madjid went to Rangers
Was at one of those training days open to the public - Asked him if there was an update on the transfer, Pardew was already walking away replied: "Madjid's Gone", and stomped off, didnt even look back as he answered... What a twat I thought!!
For me the worst signings are always linked to the damage they did. Traore was terrible but at last we could put Hermann there when we needed. McLeod was awful, awful value but he was shit amongst a river of shit. Bougherra was horrific value and managed to be just as bad in the Championship as he was in the Premier League so is a real contender. Faye though. Jesus Christ. £2m on him, 28 Premier League appearances. He once looked ok at centre back and other than that I don't think he ever looked like he could play football. He played more than Kish that season and made Bryan Hughes look like Andrea Pirlo. The worst part is Faye had been ok at Portsmouth but atrocious at Newcastle, lasting a season and a half and being terrible for the entire time. The fact we targeted him regardless and then let them make their money back on him was disgraceful, and he proceeded to allow teams to walk through us to help us get relegated. I don't think there's any signing that did more damage to us as a club than that one.
At 2.45 on match days at the Valley, let's show the players that have underperformed for Charlton, instead of showing us winning playoffs and the good players from years gone by in the premier, show the players mentioned above so we don't look at our mediocre Journeymen in such a bad light when it's KO time.
On second thought start at 2pm or we won't have time to show all the underachievers that have put on the shirt.
Luke Varney and Nicky Ajose were further striker flops
Wash your mouth out. Varney forgiven for his Palace double. He actually did ok I thought and we recouped most of what we paid too.
Pretty sure we lost £1m when we sold him.
Possibly, I thought he was 1.2 plus add ons (appearances and promotion clause). I was under impression we ended up paying around 1.6 and got 1.1/1.2 back but could be wrong.
For me the worst signings are always linked to the damage they did. Traore was terrible but at last we could put Hermann there when we needed. McLeod was awful, awful value but he was shit amongst a river of shit. Bougherra was horrific value and managed to be just as bad in the Championship as he was in the Premier League so is a real contender. Faye though. Jesus Christ. £2m on him, 28 Premier League appearances. He once looked ok at centre back and other than that I don't think he ever looked like he could play football. He played more than Kish that season and made Bryan Hughes look like Andrea Pirlo. The worst part is Faye had been ok at Portsmouth but atrocious at Newcastle, lasting a season and a half and being terrible for the entire time. The fact we targeted him regardless and then let them make their money back on him was disgraceful, and he proceeded to allow teams to walk through us to help us get relegated. I don't think there's any signing that did more damage to us as a club than that one.
Can't believe we paid for this useless pile of turd. My least favorite player of all time by an absolute country mile. Not only useless, not only on big money but against Wycombe in that debacle of a cup game he kicked a ball straight off the pitch and just shrugged his shoulders. He could not give a shit.
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Some of the others mentioned the fee would have been less than £1m.
It didn't work out and so was a waste of money from our point of view, but think his wife was seriously ill I think so it was understandable.
Was at one of those training days open to the public - Asked him if there was an update on the transfer, Pardew was already walking away replied: "Madjid's Gone", and stomped off, didnt even look back as he answered... What a twat I thought!!
Had that game in my mind when I saw your post. After that I can't remember him playing so he must have became a sly fox in the box in the shadows.
On second thought start at 2pm or we won't have time to show all the underachievers that have put on the shirt.
I wasn't a massive fan of his, but he did an alright ish job (and didn’t cost much) which is more than can be said for most others on here.
After all the years when Curbs bought sensibly and sparingly, how on earth did Murray give Pardew the go-ahead to waste so much money on these two?
Can't believe we paid for this useless pile of turd. My least favorite player of all time by an absolute country mile. Not only useless, not only on big money but against Wycombe in that debacle of a cup game he kicked a ball straight off the pitch and just shrugged his shoulders. He could not give a shit.