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Worst five signings since we got back to The Valley

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  • NapaAddick
    NapaAddick Posts: 4,657
    Katrien Meire
    Karl Robinson
    Bob Peeters
    Alan Pardew
    Keith Peacock
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 17,024
    NapaAddick said:
    Katrien Meire
    Karl Robinson
    Bob Peeters
    Alan Pardew
    Keith Peacock
    KP??? You for real? The man is as much Charlton as they come. A legend.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,350
    Keith Peacock? 
  • Kenny Achampong
    Kenny Achampong Posts: 540
    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!
  • NapaAddick
    NapaAddick Posts: 4,657
    edited April 2019
    Chizz said:
    Keith Peacock? 
    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.
  • wmcf123
    wmcf123 Posts: 5,835
    Martin Cranie and Danny Seabourne should be on this list 
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 17,024
    NapaAddick said:
    Chizz said:
    Keith Peacock? 
    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.
    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.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Recently it has to be Kackack.

    And Palace wanted £1m for him.
  • Bolderhumphreyreid
    Bolderhumphreyreid Posts: 2,556
    NapaAddick said:
    Chizz said:
    Keith Peacock? 
    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.
    I thought you ran the finances at the club?
  • JaShea99
    JaShea99 Posts: 5,468
    Borrowdale.

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  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,880
    edited April 2019
    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.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,914

    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."

  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938

    Darren Bent

    Mark Kinsella

    Clive Mendonca

    Dean Kiely

    Lyle Taylor


  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,514
    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."

    I thought we were getting 2 crap players. Turns out they were worse. 
  • ParkinsonOut
    ParkinsonOut Posts: 1,470
    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!
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,238
    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. 

  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,914
    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! 

    You do realise that most of the comments the first three pages on this thread are 10 years old, don't you?
  • NapaAddick
    NapaAddick Posts: 4,657
    edited April 2019
    Bolderhumphreyreid said:
    NapaAddick said:
    Chizz said:
    Keith Peacock? 
    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.
    I thought you ran the finances at the club?
    No, I just run the hot water in the stadium.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,671
    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.
  • SE7toSG3
    SE7toSG3 Posts: 3,140
    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.

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    Unless its meant to be post Catford Mount

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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,966
    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.

  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,664
    edited April 2019
    Way many too to mention ,we've had some shockers down the years, could be a top 50!
  • StigThundercock
    StigThundercock Posts: 3,722
    Douchebag
    Meire the liar
    Dowie
    Yohann Thuram
    Karel Fraeye
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,993
    LenGlover said:
    Not seen the name Tom Hovi anywhere unless I missed it.

    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.

    I'd still pick him over RoJo, Christophe LePoint and all of the other numpties that Roland's foisted on us though.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,671
    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.

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    Unless its meant to be post Catford Mount
    I'm not quite old enough for that.....
  • Rossman92
    Rossman92 Posts: 3,658
    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 yet
  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,446
    Makienok should be nowhere near this list. 
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,831
    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.
    Can’t argue with this. 
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,831
    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.
    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. 
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,246
    AddicksAddict said:
    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.
    Can’t argue with this. 
    Luke Varney has a golden pass as he scored winning goals against Palace.

    Same for Rommedahl, Todorov and Kitson. 

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